SAP has enhanced its accounting platform to help CFOs and chief accounting officers master the new IFRS 15/ASC 606 standards on revenue recognition.
These new accounting standards apply to all entities — public, private and not-for-profit — that have contracts with customers and will supersede virtually all current revenue accounting requirements.
New features in the SAP revenue accounting and reporting 1.2 application release include cost recognition, capitalized costs integration with project systems and results analysis from SAP, improved contract combination and modification capabilities, and integration with service and billing scenarios in the SAP customer relationship management application, plus advanced features for transition to the new accounting standards.
This update to the app is the first in a series of International Financial Reporting Standard solutions from SAP designed to help finance executives comply with IFRS 15, IFRS 16 and IFRS 9. The software also conforms with the U.S. GAAP version of the revenue recognition standard.
“CFOs are facing a perfect storm of accounting regulation, with three major IFRS standards converging in rapid succession. Time to implement these new processes is running out,” said Thack Brown, general manager and global head of line of business finance, SAP, in a statement. “It takes approximately 18 months for the average Fortune 1000 company to make a change of this magnitude, and we just passed that point in the countdown to the mandatory effective date of the new standards. Corporate finance departments should act now to ensure that they are prepared for the transition and have the right tools to automate and simplify the process.”
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