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Building Finance Open Item Reports: A SQL Stored Procedure Approach Building Finance Open Item Reports: A SQL Stored Procedure Approach Introduction Managing open items—such as accounts receivable and accounts payable—is fundamental to accurate financial reporting. Yet producing reliable open item reports for historical periods presents a significant technical challenge due to how SAP systems store this data. The Core Problem: Real-Time vs. Historical Data SAP's open item tables (BSIK for vendor open items, BSID for customer open items, and ACDOCA in S/4HANA) maintain current status in real-time. This means they always reflect open item status as of today , not as it existed at any historical point. When finance teams need to recreate what was open at month-end three months ago, the current table structure provides no direct path to that information. Why Manual Snapshots Fall Short Many or...

Flattening SAP Hierarchical Data for PowerBI Introduction Every once in a while we have to work with hierarchical data structures. In accounting, we have account hierarchies that looks like below: ACCT_ID PARENT_ACCT_ID 300000NS TIRPOPIN 310000NS 300000NS 311000NS 310000NS 312000NS 310000NS 320000NS 300000NS 321000NS 320000NS 322000NS 320000NS 322000NS_A ...