FINANCE

Unit 1: Introduction to SAP R/3

• Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages

• Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO

• Landscape and multi-client concept

• Transport request creation, modification, status, types, release, transport

• Difference between R/1, R/2 and R/3

• Types of messages

Unit 2:Financial Accounting Basic Settings

• Definition of company

• Definition of company code

• Assignment of company to company code

• Definition of business area

• Define chart of accounts

• Assign chart of accounts to company code

• Define account groups

• Define Retained earnings account

• Define Fiscal year variant and shortend fiscal year

• Assign fiscal year variant to company code

• Define field status variants

• Assignment of field status variant to company code

• Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts

• Definition of tolerance groups for employees

• Assignment of tolerance groups to users

• Define document types

• Define posting period variant

• Assign posting period variant to company code

• Open/close posting period variant

• Global parameters

• Organization structure in EC01

• Sort key configuration in OB16

Unit 3: General Ledger Accounting

• Creation of General Ledger Master FS00/FSP0/FSS0 (with and without reference)

• Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master

• Document Entry posting (F-02/FB50/FB01) and posting with reference

• Display and change of documents, editable fields

• Display of GL balances report

• Display GL account line items report

• Parked documents

• Hold documents

• Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents

• Handling prepaid expenses (prepaid insurance and accrued income) with recurring documents

• Changing line layouts for display of GL line items, variant creation, dynamic selections

• Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal, reversal of cleared items and reversal of accrual documents

• Accrual and Deferral documents

• Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation

• Open item management, Types of clearing – standard, partial, residual

• Account clearing F-03 and posting with clearing F-07 differences with GL tolerances OBXZ

• GL open item and cleared item tables, transaction and master data tables

• Interest calculations on term loans

• Foreign currency revaluation for open items (F-07) and balances FAGL_FC_VAL, Posting Realized gains/losses on open items

• Account assignment model FKMT

• Mass changes in line item report

• Types of chart of accounts and reporting F.01

• Options from the selection parameter screen, editing options

Unit 4: Accounts Payable

• Creation of vendor account groups

• Creation of number ranges for vendor master records

• Assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups

• Creation of tolerance group for venders

• Creation of vendor master XK01/FK01/MK01 (display/change/block/unblock of vender master), sensitive fields in master data and confirmation FK08

• Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo), Account clearing and posting with clearing on vendor

•  Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions)

• Vendor tolerances gain/loss postings OBXL

• Creation of payment terms and cash discounts with instalments

•  Automatic payment program configuration with SEPA format

• Bank master data and house banks

•  F110 execution – main bank posting from F110 and bank clearing account posting from F110 and related tables

•  DME files creation in xmland txt format and understanding DME structure in DMEE with GDFF file with AL11 path

• Payment advice generation, payment advice by email, payment summary generation

• Reversal of payment documents

• Vendor clearing – standard, partial and residual

•  Check payment method and creating checks manually F-58 and automatically and printing

•    Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register

•    Check encashment dates

• Cancellation of unissued checks and issued checks

•   Creation of void reasons

•   Cancel payment, delete for payment run

•   Deleting manual checks and voided checks

•   Real-time scenarios on APP - partial payments, foreign currencies

•    Real-time scenarios on APP – payment method supplement, partner bank type, payment from multiple house banks to different invoices

•   Intercompany payments and trading partner – manual and automatic

• 27.  Tables and reports in AP and APP (REGU*)

• ACH/Direct debit

• Payment order

• Foreign currency revaluation on vendor and differences between realized and unrealized gain/loss

• Different payment methods to vendors including Idocs

Unit 5: Accounts Receivable:

•     Creation of customer account groups

•     Creation of number ranges for customer master records

•     Assignment of number ranges for customer account groups

•     Creation of tolerance group for customers

•     Creation of customer master XD01/FD01/VD01 (display/change/block/unblock of vender master), sensitive fields

•     Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo), Account clearing and posting with clearing

•     Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)

•     Configuration of settings for dunning and dunning letters emailing to customers

•     Cash discounts

•   APP configuration for customers

• Customer clearing – standard, partial and residual

• Master data and transaction tables (open and cleared item) and reports

• Customer line item interest calculation

• Customer tolerances OBXL

• Invoice or statement printing/correspondence - FB12 and F.64

Unit 6: Bank Accounting

• Electronic bank statement (EBS): Configuration and execution MT940 with main bank and alternative bank account

• EBS – Bank charges, Bank interest and tax code posting with search string

• Auto Lockbox: Configuration and execution

• SAP query

• Cash journal

Unit 7: Data Migration

• LSMW (asset, vendor, customer and GL master data)

• BDC (transaction data)

Unit 8: Asset Accounting

•     Defining chart of depreciation

•     Creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased

•     Assignment of chart of depreciation to company code

•     Defining account determination

•     Definition of screen lay out rules

•     Definition of number ranges for asset classes

•     Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules

•     Defining Depreciation key

•     Definition of multilevel methods

•   Definition of period control methods

•   Creation of main asset master records

•   Creation of sub asset master records

•   Acquisition of fixed assets

•   Sale of fixed assets

•   Transfer of assets

•   Scrapping of assets,

•   Depreciation run

•   Line item Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress

• Year-end activities

• Asset mass changes

• Tables and reports

• Asset history report, Asset explorer and Asset documents

• Asset impairment/revaluation

• Master data and transaction data tables

• Asset shut down

• Manual depreciation

• Unplanned depreciation/missed depreciation

• Depreciation with repeat run

• Asset evaluation groups

Unit 9: New General Ledger Accounting

• Parallel ledgers

• Document splitting

Unit 10: Reports

• Financial statement version (FSV)

CONTROLLING

Unit 1: Basic Settings for Controlling

•     Defining Controlling Area

•     Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area

•     Maintain Planning Versions

Unit 2: Cost Element Accounting

•     Creation of primary cost elements from FI and CO

•     Manual and automatic creation of cost elements

•     Display of cost element master records

•     Change cost element master records

•     Primary cost element categories

•     Secondary cost element categories

•     Default account assignments

Unit 3: Cost Center Accounting

•     Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups

•     Display, change cost center master records

•     Creation of cost center groups

•     Actual posting to cost centers

•     Reposting of co line items

•     Cost center hierarchy

•     Planning for cost centers

•      Actual and variance reports

Unit 4: Period - End Activities

• Statistical Key figure

• Creation and execution of Distribution Cycle with/without SKF

• Creation and execution of Assessment cycles with/without SKF

• Creation and execution of Actual periodic reposting

Unit 5: Internal Orders

•     Defining order types

•     Creation of internal order master records

•     Display internal order master records

•     Change internal order master records

•     Postings to internal orders

•     Planning for internal orders

•     Reposting co line items for internal orders

•     Repost of costs for internal orders

•     Report of Variance analysis for internal orders

•   Creation of real internal orders

•   Posting of business transaction to real orders

•   Definition of allocation structures

•   Definition of settlement profiles

•   Definition of planning profiles

•   Settlement of real internal orders

•   Budgeting and availability control

•   Maintain number ranges for budgeting

•   Define tolerances for availability control

•   Budget manager

•   SAP business workplace

Unit 6: Profit Center Accounting

•     Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting

•     Creation of Dummy Profit Centers

•     Maintenance of control parameters for actual postings

•     Maintaining planning versions for profit centers

•     maintaining the number ranges for profit center documents

•     Creation of profit center master records

•     Display of profit center master records

•     Changing the profit center master records

•     Creation of revenue cost elements

•   Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers

•   Assignment of profit centers in cost center master records

•   Creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning

•   Planning for profit and loss account items

•   Planning for balance sheet items

•   Posting of transactions into profit centers

•   Generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items

•   Generating the variance reports for balance sheet items.

Unit 7: Profitability Analysis

• Maintaining the operating concern

• Define profitability segment characteristics

• Assignment of controlling area to operating concern

• Activating the profitability analysis

• Define number ranges for actual postings

• Mapping of SD conditions types to COPA value fields

• Report painter - Creation and execution of reports in CoPA with Sales, CoGS, and Discount and Freight value fields

• PA transfer structure

• CoPA document generation from FI

• CoPA assessment

PRODUCT COSTING

Unit 1: Product Cost Planning

•     Creation of bill materials

•     Creation of activity type master records

•     Planning for activity hours

•     Activity type price calculation

•     Creation of work center master records

•     Creation of routings

•     Defining cost sheet (overhead structures)

•     Assignment of cost sheet to costing variant

•     Creation of cost estimate with quantity structure

•   Marking

•   Releasing and price change document

•   Creation of cost estimate with quantity structure

• Creation of cost estimate without quantity structure

• Cost estimate for multiple materials

• Cost estimate reorganization

INTEGRATION

Unit 1: Integration of financial accounting with materials management

• Definition of organizational units in materials management i.e. plant, storage location and purchase organization

• Assignment of organizational units to each other

• Definition of tolerance groups for purchase orders

• Definition of tolerance groups for goods receipt

• Definition of tolerance groups for invoice verification

• Definition of vendor specific tolerances

• Creation, display and change of material master records

• Creation of plant parameters

• Maintenance of posting periods for materials management

• Maintenance of parameters for invoice verification

• Maintenance of plant parameters for inventory management and physical inventory

• Definition of attributes for material types

• Assignment of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting (Integration of MM with FI)

• Creation of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification and Goods issue for production with planned freight FRA2 and unplanned delivery costs and discounts

• Price control – standard and moving average with postings

• Price differences posting to PRD

• GR/IR clearing from F.13 with automatic clearing (automatic clearing criteria OB74)

• Stock report MB5B

• Invoice reversal MR8M

• MM Pricing procedure

Unit 2: Integration of financial accounting with sales and distribution

•     Definition of sales organization

•     Definition of distribution channels

•     Definition of divisions

•     Assignment among various organizational units in SD

•     Definition of partner functions

•     Definitions of shipping point and loading points

•     Definition of pricing procedures

•     Determining the shipping points

•     Determining the pricing procedures

•   Maintenance of SD condition types

•   Maintenance of condition records

•   Assignment of GL accounts for sales transactions (integration of FI with SD)

•   Creation of sales order

•   Initialization of stock

•   Posting the delivery of goods

•   Creating the sales invoice.

• SD pricing procedure Discounts K007, Freight condition types

OTHER TOPICS

Validations and Substitutions with Sets

• Line item level

• Header level

Sales Tax

• Input tax

• Output tax

• Sales tax procedure

Year-end closing and month-end closing

• GL balances carry forward

• AP and AR balances carry forward

• Special period posting

Concept of Trading partner

MASS maintenance (MASS)

Job scheduling in SM37

Idocs

• Structure of an Idoc

• AL11 path, Uploading and downloading files from AL11

• Testing and copying an Idoc

• Reprocessing an Idoc

ASAP Methodology

• Phases in ASAP methodology

• Project plan

Real-time documentation

• Business Blueprint (BBP)

• Estimate

• High-level design

• Functional specifications

• Test script

• UAT

• Agile methodology