SAP FICO Course Content

Introduction to SAP R/3

Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages

Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO

Financial Accounting Basic Settings:

Definition of company

Definition of company code

Assignment of company to company code

Definition of business area

Definition of fiscal year variant

Assignment of fiscal year variant to company code

Definition of posting period variant

Assignment of posting period variant to company code

Open and close posting period

Defining document type & number ranges

Maintenance of 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

Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)

Creation of chart of Accounts

Defining Accounts Groups

Defining Retained Earnings Account.

General Ledger Accounting:

Creation of General Ledger Master (with and without reference)

Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master

Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference

Display and change of documents

Display of GL balances

Display GL account line items

Parked documents

Hold documents

Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents

Defining recurring entry document and postings with recurring doc.

Creation of account assignment model and posting

Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items

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

accrual and deferral documents

Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation ratios

Define Exchange rates & posting of foreign currency transactions

Interest calculations on term loans

Accrual and Deferral documents

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 (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)

Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)

Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against

invoices (special GL transactions)

Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment

Creation of payment terms,

Creation of house banks and account ids.

Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register

display check register

cancellation of un issued checks

creation of void reasons

cancellation of issued checks

posting of purchase returns

Configuration of automatic payment program

Payment to vendors through APP

Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts

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 (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)

Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)

Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)

Configuration of settings for dunning

generating the dunning letters

defining correspondence and party statement of accounts

Bills of exchange

posting of sales returns

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

New General ledger accounting:

Parallel ledgers

document splitting

Segments.

Reports

Financial statement version

General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Assets Reports

CONTROLLING:

Basic settings for controlling

Defining Controlling Area

Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area

Maintain Planning Versions

Cost element accounting:

creation of primary cost elements from financial accounting area

creation of primary cost elements from controlling area

display of cost element master records

change cost element master records

primary cost element categories

secondary cost element categories

default account assignments

Cost Center Accounting

Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy

Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups

display cost center master records

change cost center master records

creation of cost center groups

posting to cost centers

reposting of co line items

Repost of Costs

planning for cost centers

Overhead Calculation

creation of secondary cost element master records

Creation and Execution of Distribution Cycle

creation and execution of assessment cycles

cost center reports

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

specification of exempt cost elements fr4om availability control

maintenance of budget manager

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.

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

Creation of reports

Viewing the reports

Product costing

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( over head structures)

assignment of cost sheet to costing variant

creation of cost estimate with quantity structure

Marking

Releasing

Creation of cost estimate without quantity structure

Integration

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

Integration of financial accounting with sales and distribution:

Definition of sale s 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