Configuring SAP S/4HANA Finance, 2nd Edition
- Length: 738 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publisher: SAP Press
- Publication Date: 2021-08-24
- ISBN-10: 1493221590
- ISBN-13: 9781493221592
- Sales Rank: #627105 (See Top 100 Books)
Get your SAP S/4HANA Finance configuration right the first time! Whether you’re running a new implementation or transitioning from SAP ERP, this comprehensive guide walks you through each project task. Start by setting up an organizational structure and defining global master data. Next, follow step-by-step instructions organized by functional area: general ledger, AP, AR, controlling, margin analysis, predictive accounting, and more. Your new system awaits!
* Set up financial accounting and controlling processes in SAP S/4HANA
* Plan your SAP S/4HANA Finance project
* Prepare for testing, go-live, and production support
Preparation
Choose the right implementation approach for your SAP S/4HANA Finance project! Apply best practices for setting project scope and timelines, and conduct requirements analysis.
Configuration
Set up global finance settings and then configure each SAP S/4HANA Finance process with step-by-step instructions. Learn how to define master data and use the new business partners paradigm.<P>
Go-Live
Understand the migration process for legacy data, organize and conduct your testing activities, and then prepare for your go-live.
*Controlling
*Financial accounting
*General ledger
*Accounts payable/accounts receivable
*Asset accounting
*Cost center accounting
*Profit center accounting
*Predictive accounting
*Margin analysis
*Product costing
*Group reporting
*Universal Journal
Dear Reader Notes on Usage Table of Contents Preface Objective of This Book Target Audience Organization of This Book How to Read This Book Introduction Your New SAP S/4HANA System Your New Finance Solution Configuration Interface Summary 1 Project Preparation 1.1 Defining Your Project Objectives 1.2 Comparing Greenfield versus Brownfield Implementations 1.3 Defining the Project Scope 1.4 Defining the Project Timeline 1.5 Assembling the Project Team 1.6 Summary 2 Requirements Analysis 2.1 Template Requirements Analysis 2.1.1 Financial Accounting 2.1.2 Controlling 2.1.3 Integration with Logistics 2.2 Localization Fit/Gap Analysis 2.2.1 Localization Overview 2.2.2 Local Accounting Standards 2.2.3 Local Tax Requirements 2.2.4 Other Local Requirements 2.3 Summary 3 Financial Accounting Global Settings 3.1 The New Finance Data Model in SAP S/4HANA 3.1.1 Universal Journal 3.1.2 Real-Time Integration with Controlling 3.2 Organizational Structure 3.2.1 Company 3.2.2 Company Code 3.2.3 Controlling Area 3.2.4 Operating Concern 3.3 Ledgers 3.4 Document Types 3.4.1 Document Type Settings 3.4.2 Number Ranges 3.4.3 Document Types for Entry View in a Ledger 3.5 Currencies 3.5.1 Currency Types 3.5.2 Exchange Rate Type 3.5.3 Exchange Rates 3.6 Taxes 3.6.1 Tax Procedure 3.6.2 Tax Codes 3.7 Summary 4 General Ledger 4.1 Master Data 4.1.1 Chart of Accounts 4.1.2 Account Groups 4.1.3 General Ledger Accounts 4.2 Document Splitting 4.2.1 Document Splitting Characteristics 4.2.2 Classification of General Ledger Accounts for Document Splitting 4.2.3 Classification of Document Types for Document Splitting 4.2.4 Defining Document Splitting Characteristics for General Ledger Accounting 4.2.5 Defining Zero-Balance Clearing Account 4.3 Automatic Postings and Account Determination 4.3.1 Purchasing Flows 4.3.2 Sales Flows 4.3.3 Automatic Postings in Financial Accounting 4.4 Periodic Processing and Financial Closing 4.4.1 Posting Periods 4.4.2 Intercompany Reconciliation 4.4.3 Foreign Currency Valuation 4.4.4 Account Clearing 4.4.5 Balance Carry-Forward 4.5 Information System 4.5.1 Balance Reports 4.5.2 Financial Statements 4.5.3 Tax Reports 4.5.4 Drilldown Reporting 4.6 SAP Fiori Applications 4.6.1 Post General Journal Entries App 4.6.2 Upload General Journal Entries App 4.7 Summary 5 Accounts Payable 5.1 Business Partner 5.1.1 General Data 5.1.2 Company Code Data 5.1.3 Business Partner Configuration 5.2 Business Transactions 5.2.1 Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos in Financial Accounting 5.2.2 Posting with Alternative Reconciliation Account 5.2.3 Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos from Materials Management 5.2.4 Tax Determination in the Purchasing Process 5.2.5 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Clearing 5.2.6 Payment Terms and Outgoing Payments 5.2.7 Integration with Vendor Invoice Management 5.3 Information System 5.3.1 Master Data Reports 5.3.2 Balance Reports 5.3.3 Line-Item Reports 5.4 Summary 6 Accounts Receivable 6.1 Business Partners 6.1.1 General Data 6.1.2 Company Code Data 6.1.3 Sales Data 6.1.4 Business Partner Configuration 6.2 Business Transactions 6.2.1 Outgoing Invoices/Credit Memos in Financial Accounting 6.2.2 Outgoing Invoices/Credit Memos in Sales and Distribution 6.2.3 Pricing Procedure in Sales 6.2.4 Incoming Payments and Payment Terms 6.3 Taxes 6.3.1 Taxes in Financial Accounting Invoices 6.3.2 Tax Determination in the Sales Process 6.4 Information System 6.4.1 Master Data Reports 6.4.2 Balance Reports 6.4.3 Line-Item Reports 6.5 Summary 7 Fixed Assets 7.1 Organizational Structures 7.1.1 Chart of Depreciation 7.1.2 Depreciation Areas 7.1.3 Asset Classes 7.2 Master Data 7.2.1 Screen Layout 7.2.2 Account Determination 7.2.3 Number Ranges 7.2.4 User Fields and Asset Supernumbers 7.2.5 Asset Numbers, Subnumbers, and Group Numbers 7.3 Business Transactions 7.3.1 Acquisitions 7.3.2 Transfers 7.3.3 Retirement 7.4 Valuation and Closing 7.4.1 New Asset Accounting Concept 7.4.2 Multiple Valuation Principles 7.4.3 Depreciation Key 7.4.4 Depreciation Run 7.4.5 Revaluation 7.4.6 Manual Value Correction 7.4.7 Year-End Closing Activities 7.5 Information System 7.5.1 Asset Explorer 7.5.2 Asset Balance Reports 7.5.3 Asset History Sheet 7.6 Summary 8 Bank Accounting 8.1 Master Data 8.1.1 Bank Keys 8.1.2 House Banks 8.1.3 Bank Accounts and International Bank Account Numbers 8.1.4 Simplified Bank General Ledger Accounts 8.2 Automatic Payment Program 8.2.1 Automatic Payment Program Parameters 8.2.2 Automatic Payment Program Global Settings 8.2.3 Payment Method 8.2.4 Bank Determination 8.2.5 Common Issues with the Payment Program 8.3 Payment Files 8.3.1 Single Euro Payments Area Payment Files 8.3.2 Other Common Formats 8.4 Electronic Bank Statements 8.4.1 Overview 8.4.2 Account Symbols 8.4.3 Posting Rules 8.4.4 Transaction Types 8.4.5 Reprocessing Rules 8.4.6 Editing Journal Entries during Simulation 8.5 Summary 9 General Controlling and Cost Element Accounting 9.1 General Controlling Settings 9.1.1 Maintaining Controlling Areas 9.1.2 Number Ranges 9.1.3 Versions 9.2 Master Data 9.2.1 Cost Elements 9.2.2 Cost Element Groups 9.3 Actual Postings 9.3.1 Manual Reposting 9.3.2 Activity Allocation 9.4 Summary 10 Cost Center Accounting 10.1 Master Data 10.1.1 Cost Centers 10.1.2 Cost Center Groups 10.1.3 Activity Types 10.1.4 Statistical Key Figures 10.2 Actual Postings 10.2.1 Automatic Account Assignment 10.2.2 Substitutions for Account Assignment 10.3 Periodic Allocations 10.3.1 Accrual Calculation 10.3.2 Distribution 10.3.3 Assessment 10.3.4 Activity Allocation 10.4 Planning 10.4.1 Basic Settings for Planning 10.4.2 Manual Planning 10.5 Information System 10.5.1 Standard Reports 10.5.2 User-Defined Reports 10.6 Summary 11 Internal Orders 11.1 Master Data 11.1.1 Order Types 11.1.2 Screen Layouts 11.1.3 Number Ranges 11.1.4 Creating Internal Orders 11.2 Budgeting 11.3 Actual Postings and Periodic Allocations 11.3.1 Settlement 11.3.2 Periodic Reposting 11.4 Planning 11.4.1 Basic Settings 11.4.2 Statistical Key Figures 11.4.3 Allocations 11.5 Information System 11.5.1 Standard Reports 11.5.2 Report Painter Reports 11.5.3 Internal Orders Plan/Actual App 11.6 Summary 12 Profit Center Accounting 12.1 Master Data 12.1.1 Profit Centers 12.1.2 Profit Center Groups 12.1.3 Standard Hierarchies 12.2 Profit Center Derivation 12.2.1 Account Assignment Objects 12.2.2 Document Splitting 12.2.3 Profit Center Substitution 12.3 Information System 12.3.1 Standard Reporting 12.3.2 Drilldown Reporting 12.4 Summary 13 Margin Analysis 13.1 Overview of Margin Analysis 13.1.1 Costing-Based Profitability Analysis 13.1.2 Account-Based Profitability Analysis/Margin Analysis 13.2 Master Data 13.2.1 Operating Concern 13.2.2 Data Structure 13.2.3 Operating Concern Attributes 13.2.4 Characteristics Hierarchy 13.2.5 Characteristic Derivation 13.3 Data Flow 13.3.1 Invoice Value Flow 13.3.2 Overhead Costs Flow 13.3.3 Top-Down Distribution 13.3.4 Production Costs Flow 13.4 Integrated Planning 13.4.1 Planning Framework 13.4.2 Planning Elements 13.5 Information System 13.5.1 Line-Item Lists 13.5.2 Drilldown Reporting 13.6 Summary 14 Predictive Accounting 14.1 Configuration 14.1.1 Ledger Settings 14.1.2 Mapping the Predictive Ledger 14.1.3 Activate Extension Ledger 14.1.4 Activate Predictive Accounting for Sales Orders 14.1.5 Maintain Billing Types for Predictive Accounting 14.1.6 Maintain Sales Order Item Categories for Predictive Accounting 14.2 Data Flow 14.2.1 Sales Orders 14.2.2 Goods Movements and Billing Documents 14.3 Information System 14.3.1 Incoming Sales Orders – Flexible Analysis App 14.3.2 Display Journal Entries – In T-Account App 14.4 Summary 15 Product Costing 15.1 Master Data 15.1.1 Material Master 15.1.2 Bill of Materials 15.1.3 Work Center 15.1.4 Routing 15.2 Product Cost Planning 15.2.1 Costing Variant Components 15.2.2 Creating the Costing Variant 15.2.3 Cost Component Structure 15.2.4 Costing Sheet 15.2.5 Material Cost Estimates 15.3 Actual Costing and Material Ledger 15.3.1 Overview and Material Ledger Activation 15.3.2 Multiple Currencies and Valuations 15.3.3 Material Ledger Update 15.3.4 Actual Costing 15.3.5 Actual Costing Cockpit 15.4 Information System 15.4.1 Product Cost Planning 15.4.2 Actual Costing and Material Ledger 15.4.3 Drilldown Reporting 15.5 Summary 16 Group Reporting 16.1 Group Reporting Basics 16.1.1 What Is Group Reporting? 16.1.2 Historical Group Reporting in SAP 16.1.3 Key Benefits 16.2 Global Settings 16.2.1 Prerequisites 16.2.2 Consolidation Ledgers 16.2.3 Consolidation Versions 16.2.4 Multiple Group Currencies and Extension Consolidation Versions 16.2.5 Dimensions 16.3 Data Collection and Consolidation Configuration 16.3.1 Financial Statement Items 16.3.2 Subitem Categories and Subitems 16.3.3 Document Types 16.3.4 Number Ranges 16.3.5 Data Collection Tasks 16.3.6 Consolidation of Investments Methods 16.3.7 Task Groups 16.4 Summary 17 Data Migration 17.1 Brownfield Implementation Migration 17.1.1 Check Programs for SAP S/4HANA Readiness 17.1.2 Migration to SAP S/4HANA 17.2 Greenfield Implementation Migration 17.2.1 Migration Options 17.2.2 Migration Cockpit and Migration Object Modeler 17.2.3 Legacy Data Load 17.3 Financial Migration Objects 17.3.1 General Ledger Data 17.3.2 Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Data 17.3.3 Fixed Assets Data 17.3.4 Controlling-Related Data 17.4 Summary 18 Testing 18.1 The Testing Process 18.1.1 Test Plan 18.1.2 Testing Tools 18.1.3 Testing Documentation 18.2 Unit Testing 18.2.1 Sandbox Client Testing 18.2.2 Unit Testing Client Testing 18.3 Integration Testing 18.3.1 Planning 18.3.2 Phases 18.3.3 Documentation 18.4 User Acceptance Testing 18.4.1 Planning 18.4.2 Execution 18.4.3 Documentation 18.5 Summary 19 Go-Live and Support 19.1 Preparation for the Go-Live 19.1.1 Choosing a Go-Live Date 19.1.2 Defining a Cutover Plan and Responsibilities 19.1.3 Preparing a Backup Plan 19.2 Activities during the Go-Live 19.2.1 Technical Activities 19.2.2 Financial Accounting Activities 19.2.3 Controlling Activities 19.3 Validation of the Go-Live 19.3.1 Project Team Validation 19.3.2 Subject Matter Expert Validation 19.4 Hypercare Production Support 19.4.1 The First Day 19.4.2 Background Jobs 19.4.3 Managing Critical Support Incidents 19.4.4 Organizing Long-Term Support 19.5 Summary A Obsolete and New Transaction Codes and Tables in SAP S/4HANA B The Author Index Service Pages Legal Notes
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