Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA [S4F12]

OVERVIEW

Please note that this course is currently in development with a planned availability as of beginning of January 2017.

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 most important business processes, you will practice some configurations and verify the result by using the application.

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the motivation for SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
• Provide an overview of basic business processes in the main components of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA

AUDIENCE

- Application Consultant

- Busines

CONTENT

Overview of SAP S/4HANA

• Outlining the Motivation for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA
• Providing an Overview of the SAP S/4HANA Products and Adoption Strategies
• Using the SAP Fiori Front-End

Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration

• Managing Organizational Units in Financial Accounting (FI)
• Checking the Basic Settings in New General Ledger (G/L) Accounting
• Outlining the Variant Principle
• Managing Fiscal Year Variants
• Identifying the Basic Functionality of Currency Keys and Exchange Rate Types

Master Data

• Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
• Creating Profit Centers and Segments
• Managing Customer and Vendor Accounts

Document Control

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

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
• Managing Exchange Rate Differences