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SAP Financial Accounting

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SAP Financial Accounting

by Khadija Tahir

Course Information

SAPFIN – SAP Financial

  • SAP ERP Financials – introduction and overview:
    • Positioning SAP ERP Financials Business processes (and their integration) in the SAP ERP Financials solution
    • Financial Accounting: General Ledger Accounting
    • Financial Accounting: Accounts Payable
    • Management Accounting: Internal Order
    • Financial Accounting: Asset Accounting
    • Financial Accounting: Accounts Receivable
    • Improving the End-To-End Process of Receivables Management

Business Processes in SAP Financial Accounting

  • Overview of SAP Financial Accounting (FI) in SAP ERP
    • Outlining Financial Accounting (FI) Components in SAP ERP
  • General Ledger (G/L) Accounting
    • Outlining Organizational Elements in Financial Accounting (FI)
    • Maintaining G/L Master Records
    • Posting Transactions in the G/L
  • Accounts Payable
    • Maintaining Vendor Master Records
    • Maintaining Accounts Payable Transactions
    • Managing the Integration between Accounts Payable and Materials Man
    • Performing Accounts Payable Closing Operations
  • Accounts Receivable
    • Maintaining Customer Master Records
    • Managing Accounts Receivable Transactions
    • Managing Customer Correspondence
    • Creating Accounts Receivable Dispute Cases
    • Managing the Integration between Accounts Receivable and Sales Orde
    • Performing Accounts Receivable Closing Operations
  • Asset Accounting
    • Maintaining Asset Master Records
    • Executing Asset Transactions
    • Executing Asset Accounting Period-End Closing Activities
  • Bank Accounting
    • Maintaining Bank Accounting Master Records
    • Managing Bank Accounting Transactions
  • Closing Operations in General Ledger Accounting
    • Performing General Ledger (G/L) Closing Operations

Basics of Customizing for SAP Financial Accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable

  • Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration
    • Managing Organizational Units in Financial Accounting (FI)
    • Checking the Basic Settings in New General Ledger (G/L) Accounting
    • Outlining the Variant Principle
    • Managing Fiscal Year Variants
    • Identifying the Basic Functionality of Currency Keys and Exchange Rate Types
  • Master Data
    • Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
    • Creating Profit Centers and Segments
    • Managing Customer and Vendor Accounts
  • Document Control
    • Configuring the Header and Line Items of Financial Accounting (FI) Documents
    • Managing Posting Periods
    • Managing Posting Authorizations
    • Creating Simple Documents in FI
  • Posting Control
    • Analyzing Document Splitting
    • Maintaining Default Values
    • Configuring Change Control
    • Configuring Document Reversal
    • Configuring Payment Terms and Cash Discounts
    • Maintaining Taxes and Tax Codes
    • Posting Cross-Company Code Transactions
    • Configuring Real-Time Integration
  • Financial Document Clearing
    • Performing Open Item Clearing
    • Managing Payment Differences
    • Managing Exchange Rate Differences
  • SAP Simple Finance Add-on for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®
    • Outlining the Benefits of the SAP Simple Finance Add-On

Financial Accounting Customizing I (Payment Run, Dunning Run, Correspondence)

  • Automatic Payments
    • Executing an Automatic Payment Run
    • Using Bank Accounts
    • Modifying Master Records and Financial Accounting Documents
    • Implementing SEPA
    • Configuring the Payment Program
    • Configuring the Bank Selection
    • Running the Payment Program
    • Executing a Payment Run
    • Automating a Payment Run
  • The Dunning Program
    • Executing the Dunning Program
    • Modifying Master Records and Financial Accounting Documents
    • Configuring the Dunning Program
    • Running a Dunning Program
  • Correspondence
    • Explaining Correspondence
    • Modifying Master Records
    • Configuring Options for Correspondence Types
    • Creating a Correspondence

Accounting Customizing II: Special G/L Transactions, Document Parking, Validation & Substitution, Archiving

  • Special G/L transactions (down payment requests, down payments and allocation, individual value adjustments, and so on)
  • Document parking in Financial Accounting
  • Substitution in Financial Accounting
  • Validation in Financial Accounting
  • Archiving in Financial Accounting

SAP Financial Closing

  • Month and year-end closing in Financial Accounting
  • Financial statements and profit and loss statements
  • Preparatory closing postings in Logistics and Financial Accounting
  • Configuration of periodic closing activities in Financial Accounting
  • Technical and organizational activities and documentary steps
  • Monitoring closing operations using the Financial Closing Cockpit
  • Inter-Company Reconciliation
  • Financial Statement creation business processes

New General Ledger Accounting (in SAP ERP)

  • Introduction to New General Ledger Accounting
    • Outlining the Functionality of New General Ledger Accounting
  • Ledger Definition
    • Setting Up New General Ledger Accounting
    • Using the Segment Characteristic
    • Listing Business Functions of New General Ledger Accounting
  • Document Splitting
    • Configuring Document Splitting
  • Integration Aspects
    • Integrating Financial Accounting (FI) Subledgers with New General Ledger Accounting
    • Integrating Controlling (CO) with New General Ledger Accounting
    • Integrating Materials Management (MM) with New General Ledger Accounting
    • Integrating Profit Center Accounting with New General Ledger Accounting
  • Planning
    • Describing Planning Options in New General Ledger Accounting
  • Period-End Activities
    • Outlining Period-End Activities
  • Parallel Accounting
    • Configuring the Ledger Approach in New General Ledger Accounting
    • Configuring a Foreign Currency Valuation Run
    • Defining Ledger Groups
    • Posting Manually to a Ledger Group and Evaluating the Posting Period Check
    • Clearing Provision Open Items Using New General Ledger Accounting
    • Configuring the Fixed Assets Application when Using the Ledger Approach in New General Ledger Accounting
  • Reporting
    • Analyzing Posted Values
  • Migration to New General Ledger Accounting
    • Migrating from Classic General Ledger Accounting to New General Ledger Accounting
  • New Asset Accounting
    • Explaining the Functionality and Architecture of New Asset Accounting
    • Configuring New Asset Accounting
    • Using New Asset Accounting
    • Activating New Asset Accounting

Travel Expenses and Travel Planning

  • Travel Management Overview
  • Introduction to HCM and FI master data
  • Entering trip data and approving trips using ESS and backend transactions
  • Settlement, posting, and reimbursement of travel expenses
  • Credit Card Clearing
  • Using optical archives
  • Settlement in accordance with company-specific, industry-specific, and country-specific regulations
  • Dialog control in accordance with company-specific requirements
  • Interface configuration
  • Using Forms for Travel Expenses
  • Travel request as part of the integrated travel management process
  • Enter travel requests and request relevant travel service for approval by the manager
  • Connecting to Third-Party Travel Planning
  • Reporting
  • Usage of SOA within Travel Management (Master data services)
  • Authorization Management and Roles

Asset Accounting

  • Chart of Depreciation/Depreciation Areas
  • Asset Classes
  • Asset Master Data
  • Reproduction of divers FI-AA Business Processes in the SAP System
  • Valuation and Depreciation
  • Periodic and Year-End-Closing Processes
  • Parallel Valuation in FI-AA (using the so called Account Solution)
  • Information System
  • Overview of the Legacy Data Transfer in FI-AA (from a third-party system to the SAP system)

Configuration for Investment Management

  • Chart of Depreciation/Depreciation Areas
  • Asset Classes
  • Asset Master Data
  • Reproduction of divers FI-AA Business Processes in the SAP System
  • Valuation and Depreciation
  • Periodic and Year-End-Closing Processes
  • Parallel Valuation in FI-AA (using the so called Account Solution)
  • Information System
  • Overview of the Legacy Data Transfer in FI-AA (from a third-party system to the SAP system)

Profit Center Accounting

  • Distinction of Profit Center Accounting to Profitability Analysis
  • Basic configuration settings for Profit Center Accounting
  • Master data and profit center assignments
  • Data flow from Financial Accounting, Materials Management, Controlling , and Sales into Profit Center Accounting
  • Period-end closing Profit Center Accounting
  • Overview of transfer price concept
  • Planning configuration and integrated planning
  • Planning methods in Profit Center Accounting
  • Formula planning
  • Definition of drilldown reports
  • Definition of drilldown forms
  • Effects of the new general ledger on Profit Center Accounting