After completing this unit, you will be able to:

• Introduce Central Finance as Finance First deployment approach to SAP S/4HANA
• Paraphrase the motivation for customers to move to S/4HANA and how Central Finance helps them with accelerating this transition
• Explain how Central Finance will help with customers distributed system landscapes
• Define Central Finance from the perspective of a solution, a product and a system
• Outline common challenges faced by customers and how Central Finance provides solution capabilities to overcome those
• Describe long term business benefits of Central Finance with regards to transformation, reporting and scalability
• Define the integration of SAP as well as non-SAP system with Central Finance system
• Highlight key use cases and scenarios for deploying Central Finance
• Memorize project implementation phases in relation to Central Finance Activate roadmap 
• Define the strategy and vision for Central Finance implementation roadmap
• Memorize how a Central Finance implementation will result in process changes for users and process efficiencies for the organization