Course Information
SAP S4HANA Overview
- SAP S4HANA Overview
- Navigation
- SAP Fiori UX -> SAP Business Client -> SAP Logon
- System-wide concepts
- Organizational elements -> Master data concept (e.g. material master, business partner)
- Logistics capabilities
- Purchase-to-pay processing -> Plan-to-Produce processing -> Order-to-Cash processing
- Finance capabilities
- Financial Accounting -> Management Accounting
- Human Resources capabilities
- Embedded Analytics
- SAP Activate
- Best Practices content
Overview SAP S4HANA for Central Finance
- Overview of SAP S4HANA for central finance
- SAP S/4HANA for central finance Landscape Architecture
- Corporate Finance Processes supported by SAP S4HANA for central finance
- Project Execution for SAP S4HANA for central finance
Business Processes in Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
- SAP S4 HANA Simplification List
- Providing an Overview of the SAP S/4HANA
- Using the SAP Fiori Front-End
- Overview of Financial Accounting (FI) in SAP S/4HANA
- Outlining Financial Accounting (FI) Components in SAP S/4HANA
- 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 (BP)
- Maintaining Accounts Payable Transactions
- Managing the Integration between Accounts Payable and Materials Management
- Performing Accounts Payable Closing Operations
- Accounts Receivable
- Maintaining Customer Master Records (BP)
- Managing Accounts Receivable Transactions
- Managing Customer Correspondence
- Creating Accounts Receivable Dispute Cases
- Managing the Integration between Accounts Receivable and Sales Order Management
- Performing Accounts Receivable Closing Operations
- Asset Accounting in SAP S4 HANA
- 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
Business Processes in Cash Management in SAP S/4HANA
- Overview of SAP S/4HANA
- How to process Manual Memo Records
- How to process Check Management
- How to process Electronic Bank Statements
- How to use the Bank Account Management
- How to use the Cash Operations
- How to use the Liquidity Management
Revenue Accounting and Reporting – Assisting with IFRS 15/US-GAAP ASC 606
- Overview of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting
- How to integrate sender components
- How to perform and configure the inbound processing
- How to configure and use Contract Management
- How to perform a price allocation
- How to process contract changes (prospective and retrospective)
- How to perform fulfillment and create invoices
- How to handle the integration with Cost Object Controlling
- How to process revenue postings
- How to execute reconciliation and consistency checks
- How to execute reporting for SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting 1.3 How to configure and perform the migration and transition to SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting
Implementing SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance
- Overview of SAP S4 HANA Implementation for central finance
- Project Execution for SAP S/4HANA for central finance
- SAP S/4HANA for central finance Landscape Architecture
- Basic Setup and Configuration
- Initial Load and Real-time Replication
- Error Handling
- Corporate Finance Processes supported by SAP S/4HANA for central finance
- Run Phase
- Validation and Reconciliation
- Reporting
- Central Payments
Customizing and Conversion of Asset Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
- You use the Simplification Item Check to check whether the system is ready for conversion.
- You can see how the chart of depreciation is adjusted.
- See in detail and step by step how the conversion from classic Asset Accounting to new Asset Accounting in an SAP ERP EHP 8 system works.
- See customizing adjustments that are needed after the conversion.
- Execute different asset transactions in controlling module in SAP S4 HANA in order to get familiar with the new Asset Accounting and its new posting logic
- Create a new chart of depreciation for the ledger approach (in SAP S/4HANA)
- Create a new chart of depreciation for the account approach (in SAP S/4HANA)
- Explain the differences between the different systems (account approach versus ledger approach)
- Perform of the depreciation run in SAP S/4HANA
- Explain changes in the architecture and the consequences for reporting. See the differences in Customizing.
- Use the Migration Cockpit for Legacy Data Transfer.
Reporting for Finance in SAP S/4HANA
- Embedding Embedded Analytics in the Reporting framework of SAP S/4HANA
- The Virtual Data Model (VDM)
- CDS View Types
- Analytical Queries
- Semantic Tagging
- Time-Dependent Global Hierarchies
- Using the Manage Date Functions
- Multidimensional Reporting – Analytical Queries on Web Dynpro Tiles
- SAC Stories on SAP Fiori Launchpad Tiles
- Custom CDS Views and Custom Views and Logic
- Custom Analytical Queries
- The Manage KPIs and Reports App
- The View Browser
- The Query Browser
- Optional: The Analysis Path Framework (APF)
Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA
- Short Overview of SAP S/4HANA
- Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration
- Managing Organizational Units in Financial Accounting (FI)
- Checking the Basic Settings in General Ledger (G/L)
- Accounting
- Outlining the Variant Principle
- Managing Fiscal Year Variants
- Master Data
- Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
- Managing Customer and Vendor Accounts (BP)
- Document Control
- Configuring the Header and Line Items of Financial Accounting
- (FI) Documents
- Managing Posting Periods
- Managing Posting Authorizations
- 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
- Financial Document Clearing
- Performing Open Item Clearing
- Managing Payment Differences
Additional Financial Accounting Configuration in SAP S/4HANA
- Automatic Payments
- Dunning
- Correspondence
- Special G/L transactions
- Document Parking in Financial Accounting
- Substitution in Financial Accounting
- Validation in Financial Accounting
- Data Archiving in Financial Accounting
SAP Financial Closing in SAP S/4HANA
- 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 SAP Financial Closing Cockpit
- Inter-Company Reconciliation
SAP Financial Closing cockpit for SAP S/4HANA
- Overview of SAP Financial Closing cockpit
- Customizing of SAP Financial Closing cockpit
- Create templates, tasks lists and report variants
- Execute closing activities in SAP Financial Closing cockpit
- Authorizations within SAP Financial Closing cockpit
- Reporting for SAP Financial Closing cockpit
- Overview of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing
- Overview of SAP Business Process Automation (BPA) in relation to SAP Financial Closing cockpit
Asset Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
- Chart of Depreciation/Depreciation Areas
- Asset Classes
- Asset Master Data
- Daily Asset Accounting Business Processes
- Depreciation
- Period and Year-End Closing Processes
- Investment Support Measures
- Reporting
- Asset Legacy Data Transfer
Profit Center Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
- Profitability Management
- Outlining Profitability and Sales Accounting Options
- Outlining Global Settings in SAP General Ledger Accounting
- Profit Center Master Data
- Creating Profit Center Master Data
- Assigning Profit Centers to Account Assignment Objects
- Profit Center Accounting (PCA) Actual Postings
- Explaining Profit Center Updates
- Explaining the Data Flow in Financial Accounting
- Integrating Profit Centers and Materials Management (MM)
- Integrating Cost Object Controlling (COC) and PCA
- Integrating Sales and Distribution (SD) and PCA
- Processing Allocations in PCA
- Profit Center Planning
- Outlining the basic concept of Profit Center Planning with SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA
- Transfer Pricing
- Overview of transfer price concept
Customizing in Cash Management in SAP S/4HANA
- Overview of SAP Cash Management
- How to implement and use Bank Account Management
- How to implement and use Cash Operations
- How to implement and use Liquidity Management
- How to setup and use One Exposure from Operations
- How to implement and use Bank Communication Management
SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA
- Overview of SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA
- Delivered BW Planning Content for BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA
- Universal Allocation for Plan Data
- Planning on Simulation Members
- Introduction of the SAP Planning Application Kit
- SAP Analysis for Office
- SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 Embedded
- Comments in SAP Optimized Planning
- Cost Simulation
- Global Master Data Maintenance
- Local Planning Scenarios
- Balance Sheet Planning on Profit Centers
- SAP Lumira Designer