When creating a planning model in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), the modeler must define its structure using dimensions. The available dimension types that can be explicitly chosen and added to a model include:

Account: A mandatory dimension type for financial models that defines the chart of accounts or list of key figures (e.g., liquidity items, cash flow).

Organization: A standard dimension type used to represent organizational structures and hierarchies, such as company codes or business units.

Currency: In the modern SAC model type, a dedicated Currency dimension can be added to the model to facilitate currency conversion and reporting.

These types are fundamental building blocks for a financial planning model like one for liquidity.

B. Partner: "Partner" is a business attribute, not a predefined dimension type. It would be implemented by creating a dimension of the 'Generic' type.

E. Measure: In the current SAC model type, 'Measures' is a core, system-generated dimension that contains the list of all measures (e.g., amount). It is not a type that a user can select when creating a new dimension.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud

"About Dimensions and Measures": This document outlines the different components of the new model type. It explicitly lists Account and Organization as types of dimensions. It states

"There are different types of dimensions: Account

Version

Date

Organization

and Generic."

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud

"Add a Currency Dimension to a Model": This guide details the process of adding a currency dimension to a model. It confirms that "Currency" is a dimension that a modeler can choose to add. The text states

"You can add a currency dimension to your model to show data in different currencies."

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud

"Create a New Blank Model": The documentation for creating a new model shows the dialog for adding dimensions. The "Type" dropdown list for a new dimension includes 'Account' and 'Organization'

confirming they are selectable types. The 'Measures' dimension is shown as a default

non-selectable component of the model structure.

Standing instructions in SAP Treasury and Risk Management are pre-defined rules and details for a business partner that automate transaction processing. For the Counterparty role, these instructions primarily cover payment details, correspondence, and authorizations. The partner's bank account information (Partner Bank) is a core element of the payment details, specifying the account for settling financial transactions. This information is maintained once in the business partner master data and is then automatically proposed for all subsequent deals, fitting the definition of a standing instruction.

A. Trading partner: This identifies a business partner for intercompany consolidation and reporting purposes, not as an operational instruction for transaction settlement.

B. Business partner type: This is a basic classification of the partner (e.g., Organization, Person) and is a fundamental attribute, not a transactional instruction.

D. Business partner relationships: These define structural links between different business partners (e.g., contact person, subsidiary) and do not govern transaction processing.

1. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal: Treasury and Risk Management -> Master Data -> Business Partners -> Standing Instructions. This section details the components of standing instructions

stating: "The standing instructions for a business partner contain the following information: Payment details

Correspondence

Authorization... The payment details contain all the information required for making payments to a business partner." The Partner Bank is the central piece of this payment information.

2. SAP Learning Hub

Course S4F50 (Processes in Treasury and Risk Management in SAP S/4HANA): Unit 2: Treasury-Specific Master Data

Lesson: Business Partner. This lesson explains that within the Counterparty role (FLCU01)

the 'Standing Instructions' tab is where payment details

including the partner's bank accounts

are maintained for automatic use in treasury transactions.

In Customizing view VTZB42 (IMG path: FSCM → TRM → Transaction Manager → General Settings → Accounting-Specific Settings → Planned Record Update Strategy for Variable Interest Rate Security Instruments) SAP delivers only two selectable strategies for coupons whose rate has not yet been fixed:

• “Update with configured interest rate” – the system keeps the rate that is stored in the securities contract.

• “Zero update (assign 0)” – the system sets the amount of these planned flows to zero.

No other alternatives (such as benchmark or current market rate) are offered for securities, so only A and B are valid.

C. Update with benchmark interest rate – Not provided in the update-strategy domain for securities; therefore cannot be selected.

D. Update with current interest rate – Available for money-market items, not for variable-rate securities; option is absent in view VTZB42.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023: FSCM-TRM → Transaction Manager → Accounting-Specific Settings → “Planned Record Update Strategy for Variable Interest Rate Security Instruments

” Definition section (para. 2–4).

2. SAP Customizing Implementation Guide documentation for view VTZB42

field FUPDSTRAT – delivered values “1 Configured IR” and “2 Zero update” (IMG screen help

SAP internal doc ID FIN-TRM-TM-ACC-PRUS).

3. SAP S/4HANA 2022 Configuration Guide “Treasury and Risk Management in SAP S/4HANA

” ch. 8.4.3

p. 212–213.

The SAP Fiori app "Review Bank Accounts" (App ID: F3046) is specifically designed to initiate and manage the periodic review process for bank accounts. This app allows authorized users, such as cash managers or treasury specialists, to select one or more bank accounts and trigger a review workflow. The process ensures that bank account details are regularly verified and remain accurate, which is a key governance and compliance activity within Treasury and Risk Management.

A. My Sent Requests - For Bank Accounts: This app is used to monitor the status of bank account change requests that the user has already submitted, not to initiate a new review process.

C. Manage Banks: This app is used for maintaining bank master data (e.g., bank name, address, SWIFT/BIC code), not for managing the company's specific bank accounts held at those banks.

D. Manage Bank Accounts: While this is the central app for the lifecycle management of bank accounts (create, edit, close), the specific task of initiating a periodic review is handled by the dedicated "Review Bank Accounts" app.

1. SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA 2023

Bank Account Management

"Periodic Reviews for Bank Accounts": "You can use the Review Bank Accounts app to start the periodic review process for bank accounts. You can select one or more bank accounts and start the review process."

2. SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

App ID F3046

"Review Bank Accounts": The app's description states

"With this app

you can start and manage the periodic review process for bank accounts." This confirms its primary purpose is to initiate and oversee this specific workflow.

3. SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA 2023

Bank Account Management

"Manage Bank Accounts": The documentation for the "Manage Bank Accounts" app details its functions as creating

displaying

editing

copying

and closing bank accounts

which does not include the initiation of the formal review process.

The IMG activity Define Forex Attributes (SPRO → Treasury and Risk Management → Transaction Manager → General Settings → Transaction Management → Forex Transactions → Define Forex Attributes) contains the flag “Settlement at Counterconfirmation.” When this indicator is set, the system posts the settlement flows automatically as soon as the counterparty confirmation is received. The flag is not available in the generic product type, activity category, or transaction type settings; it is specific to the forex-attributes level.

A. Product type – Holds very general characteristics; no field exists for “settle at counterconfirmation.”

B. Activity category – Controls position management procedures, not settlement behavior.

C. Transaction type – Differentiates buy/sell etc.; settlement-on-confirmation indicator is not provided here.

1. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Application Help

Treasury and Risk Management → Transaction Manager → Forex Transactions → “Define Forex Attributes” – paragraph “Settlement at Counterconfirmation” (HTML documentation

accessed 2025-10-07).

2. IMG documentation object TPMTRFFXATTR (table VTVFXATTR)

field ABWBC – “Settle at Counterconfirmation

” SAP S/4HANA 2023 SP00 Customizing Guide

Section 6.3.1.3.

3. SAP University Alliances curriculum “Financial Supply Chain Management – Treasury and Risk Management” (2023 edition)

Unit 5

p. 42-43: explanation of forex attribute flags including automatic settlement.