Define Financial Positions
Application component: Treasury and Risk Management
App type: SAP GUI
Scope items: Money Market Mutual Fund Management|Debt and Investment Management|Foreign Currency Risk Management
Key features:  Maintain Financial Position Groups You can use financial position groups to group together your financial positions. In a financial position group, you specify whether the assigned financial position represents assets or liabilities. In the Financial Status app, the assets or liabilites of a company code are totaled at the level of the company code and over all company codes.   Open the Define Financial Positions app on the SAP Fiori launchpad.   Switch to the change mode.   In the Maintain Financial Position Groups screen, choose New Entries.   Assign a name (not exceeding 20 characters) and a unique description for the financial positon group.    Further, specify whether the financial position group represent assets or liabilities. For financial position groups representing credit lines of the Treasury and Risk Management choose the Not Specified value in this field. Note Financial position groups are used to structure how financial positions are displayed in the Financial Status app. In this app, the financial position groups of the assets are displayed followed by the financial position groups for the liabilities.The financial position group is displayed in the app with its description, and not with the maximum 20 character name.The fiancial positions and financial position groups defined for the data source Facilities for the credit lines from Treasury and Risk Management, are not relevant for the Financial Status apps. For these financial positions representing the credit lines from Treasury and Risk Management the asset/liability indicator is not specified. You can report these financial positions using the CDS query Financial Status Query (C_FinancialStatusQuery).   Save your entries.    Maintain Financial Positions   Switch to the Maintain Financial Positions screen.   Choose New Entries.   Choose a name (not exceeding 20 characters) and a description for the financial position that reflects its business purpose.   Assign the financial positions group.   Specify the data source from which the key figure is to be calculated:   Treasury position management Get the book values or nominal values of treasury positions managed in Treasury and Risk Management.   Facilities Get the credit line amounts, the utilized amounts, and the available amounts in display currency of the facilities managed in Treasury and Risk Management.   One Exposure Get the house bank account balances of the Cash Management.   One document balances Get the account balances from the general ledger.     Save your entries and return to the previous screen.   Select the financial position and choose Maintain Selections. Here, you specify how the key figure is calculated. Note Maintaining the selections is mandatory for each financial position. If you do not maintain selections, no data will be selected for the financial position in the Financial Status app.   For financial positions using Treasury position management as their data source, the following fields are available:   Product Type   Transaction Type   Valuation Class   Valuation Area Note You must choose the relevant valuation areas. Make sure that you do not select the data of a company code twice. This means,  if you decide to see the values according to IFRS standard, do not select also the local gaap valuation areas.   if you decide to see the values according to the local regulations select the relevant valuation areas, but do not select the valuation areas for group reporting.      Security Class ID Number   Securities Account   Futures Account   Business Area   Portfolio   Posting Status You can restrict the selection of financial positions by their posting status. You can now choose between the selection of Scheduled and Fixed business transactions or only the Fixed business transactions.     For the financial positions using Facilities as their data source, the following fields are available:  Product Type Only the product types with product category Facilities are available.   Transaction Type     For financial positions using One Exposure as their data source, the following fields are available:  G/L Account   House Bank   Account ID   Business Area   Portfolio     For financial positions using One document balances as their data source, the following fields are available:   Account Number    Chart of Accounts   Document type    Ledger Note You must choose the relevant ledger.   Business Area     Save your entries.     
Business roles: Treasury Risk Manager
Treasury Risk Manager : 
Manages all the company's treasury activities. Uses evaluation reports to ensure that the various strategies defined for trading, market risk management, limit management, and cash management have been observed.