Discover how SAP solutions lay a solid foundation for audits and next level PCAOB or AICPA compliance reviews.

For any public company, the goal of successfully complying with periodic financial reviews by external auditors cannot be overstated. While passing each audit is a critically important milestone, companies also should understand that it is only one aspect of ensuring their financial transparency and integrity. 

This post provides a deeper look into the organizations that are overseeing your auditors and provides key insights into how your financial, compliance and reporting processes need to be robust enough to satisfy these "audit the auditors" reviews. 

Last year's post "Overview of GROW and RISE with SAP" was one of the most popular and widely shared episodes in this blog series and so it is now time to take another visit to these topics. In this new post, we explore both the progress SAP has made with RISE and GROW evolution and a look at the exciting opportunities going forward.

Most of us have encountered situations that call for turning to specialists with deep expertise in a specific area whenever it is critical for our health or safety.

For example, if tests conducted by your primary physician show problems with your heart, you'd expect a referral to a cardiologist rather than having your general practitioner do surgery in their office.  Or if the construction of your dream home encounters issues with soil stability in an earthquake prone area, your general contractor can be expected to bring in a trained geological specialist to deal with the situation. 

In business, the same concept holds true; especially for situations such as optimizing revenue recognition and reporting compliance for subscription-based product and service offerings, which often include complex entitlements, usage-based scenarios, bundled elements, and/or dynamic, on-the-fly, customer-driven changes within the end-to-end Quote-to-Cash process.

Over the past eight years, many episodes in this blog series have focused on revenue recognition and how SAP solutions such as Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) have provided a robust foundation for compliance with ASC 606 and IFRS 15. The evolution of SAP RAR and overall Automated Revenue Management (ARM) capabilities has unfolded along multiple paths to support existing users while also establishing a forward roadmap to some signficant new capabilities in SAP Public Cloud deployments.

Over the course of many projects spanning key areas such as revenue recognition, lease accounting, and subscription-based Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) programs, the Bramasol team of expert consultants has developed a widening range of innovative intellectual property (IP) and unique solutions to both enhance the integration and expand the functionality of SAP applications, including Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR), Contract and Lease Management (CLM), and SAP Quote-to-Cash (formerly called BRIM).

Watch our recently recorded session to learn about how the SAP Business Technology Platform enables the cloud by integrating solutions such as SAP Subscription Billing and SAP S/4HANA.

In this webinar you will learn about several tools SAP has to help companies manage subscription plans and models. You will hear from SAP BRIM expert, Navneet Bal, about SAP Subscription Billing, Subscription Order Management and Sales and Distribution and gain insights into key decision factors for picking the right one for your business model.

Although the initial compliance phase for ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition mandates is in the rear-view mirror for most companies, it's important to also keep a focus on the road ahead because optimization of overall RevRec processes across the enterprise will be key to ongoing success.

Within the scope of a comprehensive Comply, Optimize, Transform™ journey, company decision makers need to understand the importance of integrating RevRec within the ever-changing enterprise-wide landscape of management processes. This blog post provides an overview of how the latest enhancements within the SAP ecosystem can provide a useful roadmap for the next steps toward optimization and ultimately transformation.

The new ASC 606 revenue recognition standard was adopted by most companies within the last three years with public companies adopting first and then followed later by private companies. A core concept in the new revenue recognition approach is the Five-Step model for identifying contracts, performance obligations, transaction prices, allocations, and timing for revenue recognition.