Financial Reporting System Integrating Market Segment Attributes and Accounting Data

摘要

Financial reporting methods and systems integrate profitability and accounting data. A universal journal entry allows user definition of relevant characteristics for a market segment. The entry appends the structure of a financial document to provide linkage to market segment characteristics. When creating the financial document including profit and loss (P&L) and balance account line items, a market segment is defined with determined characteristics stored in the line item on the basis of business process dependent rules. For example in posting information on a sales order item, sales order data may be read, and customer, product, and/or other sales order information input. Additional data can be derived on the basis of the determined master data, depending upon user needs. Embodiments allow enriched reporting (e.g., flexible market segment reporting) at the line item level, affording intuitive access to defined characteristics, e.g., drill-down into details of P&L and balance account information.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
an engine receiving accounting data; the engine receiving market segment information defined with a plurality of characteristics; the engine integrating the plurality of characteristics with the accounting data according to a ruleset to generate a universal journal entry as a database table comprising a line item broken down into the plurality of characteristics; and the engine displaying a report including the line item and the at least one of the plurality of characteristics.