Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA

Gain the mandatory foundation knowledge to configure business processes in Financial Accounting.

The course provides an overview of how to implement Financial Accounting capabilities of SAP S/4HANA in order to cover the related business requirements. You will gain the mandatory foundation knowledge required in order to understand and configure business processes for the SAP S/4HANA financials module in the areas of general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable accounting. For the Master Data, the Document Control/Posting Control and Financial Document Clearing you will practice some configurations and verify the result by using the application.

Syllabus

SAP S/4HANA Overview

Getting an Overview of SAP S/4HANA
Introducing SAP Fiori
SAP S/4HANA Overview

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
Identifying the Basic Functionality of Currency Keys and Exchange Rate Types
Managing Currency Types
Common Practices for Implementing SAP S/4HANA
Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration

Master Data

Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
Creating Profit Centers and Segments
Managing Business Partners
Master Data

Document Control

Configuring the Header and Line Items of Financial Accounting (FI) Documents
Managing Posting Periods
Managing Posting Authorizations
Creating Simple Documents in FI
Document Control

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
Posting Control

Financial Document Clearing

Performing Open Item Clearing
Managing Payment Differences
Managing Exchange Rate Differences
Financial Document Clearing

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