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DESCRIPTION SAP S/4HANA Finance is a revolutionary financial accounting solution that leverages the latest in-memory database technology to deliver unparalleled performance and efficiency. Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance Simplified - Questions & Answers is the most updated book in SAP Financial Accounting, in an easy-to-learn format. This second edition builds on the first by going in-depth into SAP HANA, Fiori, and SAP S/4HANA Finance. It offers expanded coverage with clearer explanations, practical examples, and step-by-step guidance. You will learn about global settings, the document principle, and managing accounts receivable, payable, bank accounting, and asset accounting processes, making it easier to master these key concepts. The content is presented in a Q&A format with about 650 questions, enhanced with live system screenshots, examples, and illustrations for better understanding. It also includes menu paths and transaction codes for system customization and task execution, making it an effective learning resource.By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of financial accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance. You will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to streamline your financial processes, improve efficiency, and make informed business decisions.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN● This new edition expands on SAP S/4HANA Finance by covering its integration with other SAP modules and cloud-based solutions.● Configure global settings like ledgers, fiscal years, document types, and tax settings to align with your organization's specific requirements.● Master accounts receivable and payable management, bank reconciliation, and asset accounting processes.● Leverage advanced features like in-memory computing, real-time analytics, and automation.● Create reports, comply with regulations, and manage financial risks.WHO THIS BOOK IS FORThis book is for all professionals, consultants, end-users, and business leaders involved with SAP, to gain expertise in financial accounting for better organizational performance with improved business efficiency, financial compliance, and effective reporting.

This book on 'Configuring SAP General Ledger Accounting' in SAP S/4HANA Finance, covers configuring your SAP system for making use of the important functional areas of SAP General Ledger (G/L) Accounting. As with my other books on SAP, this book also follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Efforts have been taken, throughout the book, to guide you step-by-step in understanding how to configure your SAP system, to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you comprehend a topic or a configuration setting or a concept better. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide), for easy reference. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various activities. The coverage includes: Case StudySAP General Ledger Accounting: OverviewFeatures & FunctionalitiesPre-requisites for Configuring SAP G/L AccountingMaster DataBusiness TransactionsPeriodic ProcessingPreparation for Productive StartInformation System The book starts with a case study, setting up the tone for further discussions, outlining the various business processes that you will be configuring towards implementing SAP G/L Accounting for your business. You will come across with the case study brief per configuration activity / step, in each Chapter. We discuss the overview of SAP G/L Accounting, before moving on to discuss its important features and functionalities. You will learn about extensibility, ledger concept, document splitting, parallel accounting, segment reporting, fast close and integration of SAP FI with SAP Controlling. We, then, move on to discuss the pre-requisites for configuring SAP G/L Accounting. Here, you will learn about the important FI general settings and also on how to configure the fields, ledgers and currencies. You will learn more about parallel accounting and the FI integration with CO. While on G/L master data, we discuss the G/L account master data, the profit center master data and segment master data. We bring out, in detail, the preparations that you need to make for creating these master data, besides elaborating their creation and processing. You will, then, be taken to learn about the functionality as well as the configuration of G/L business transactions, including document splitting, open item clearing, bank account interest calculation, and adjustment posting / reversal. In periodic processing for G/L, you will learn about the various closing operations like check/count, valuate, reclassify, allocation and carry forward. We, then, discuss the preparations that you need to make for productive start of SAP G/L Accounting system. You will learn about the preparations, in detail, for new implementation, as well as for migration from an existing non-HANA SAP system. Finally, towards the end, we discuss the G/L information system. You will learn about the various G/L reports that are available for your business, including the drilldown reports and reports created with Report Painter / Report Writer. In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference or a refresher for configuring SAP G/L Accounting. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will find the book very informative and easy to read.

Configuring SAP Asset Accounting (SAP S/4HANA Finance), based on the latest version of SAP S/4HANA Finance, is a complete guide to comprehend and configure SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA). The book comes from the author who has written several books on SAP, including 'Configuring Financial Accounting in SAP ERP' (3rd Edition), by SAP Press (2018). ISBN 9781493217236.His other books include: 'SAP ERP: Quick Reference Guide' (2nd Edition)By Mercury Learning & Information, 2020ISBN: 9781683920960'SAP FI: Financial Accounting ERP' (2nd Edition)By Mercury Learning & Information, 2017ISBN: 9781683921004'Configuring Financial Accounting in SAP' (2nd Edition)By Galileo Press, 2014 (SAP Press)ISBN: 9781493210428'Implementing SAP ERP Financials: A Configuration Guide' (2nd Edition)By Tata McGraw Hill Publishing, 2013ISBN: 9780070142978This book follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Efforts have been taken, throughout the book, to guide you step-by-step in understanding how to configure your SAP system, to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of context-based additional information across Chapters, for better assimilation of concepts / settings. The entire content of the book has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide) with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate effectively.Coverage: SAP HANASAP S/4HANASAP S/4HANA FinanceCase StudyAsset Accounting: OverviewOrganizational StructuresStructuring Fixed Assets in FI-AAIntegrationGeneral ValuationDepreciationSpecial ValuationsMaster DataTransactionsInformation SystemAsset Data TransferPreparations for Going LiveOverview for ExpertsIn this book: You will learn about SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Finance. Towards configuring SAP FI-AA, you will first learn how to use SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA) to manage your business entity's fixed assets in any country / industry. You will learn how to portray your organizational structure in FI-AA. You will understand what a 'chart of depreciation' is and how the 'depreciation areas' enable managing the rules for depreciation / valuation of assets. You will learn how to structure assets at three different levels, including balance sheet structure level. You will learn 'asset class' and how it links asset master with G/L accounts. You will learn FI-AA's integration with SAP's other application components including G/L Accounting. You will learn how to manage general / special valuation, to meet differing business needs like valuation as per local laws, tax depreciation, cost-accounting depreciation, special reserves etc. You will learn how SAP supports both automatic (ordinary & special depreciation) and manual depreciation (unplanned depreciation & transfer of reserves). You will understand how SAP carries out depreciation calculation using 'Depreciation Calculation Program'.You will learn how information is arranged in an asset master record, in general master data area and in the data area for calculating asset values. You will learn about various 'transaction types', for carrying out asset transactions including acquisitions, retirements, transfers etc. You will learn about SAP Queries, asset history sheet etc., as a part of FI-AA Information System. You will learn how to undertake legacy asset data transfer into SAP FI-AA. As a part of going live, you will learn about production startup activities. You will learn how to use the 'overview for experts' functionality to check / verify configuration settings at a glance.In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI-AA. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will find this easy to learn.

This book on 'Configuring SAP Financial Accounting' in SAP S/4HANA Finance (1909), has been published in two volumes: Volume I and Volume II. The Vol. II (this book) covers: Configuring SAP Financial Accounting - Vol. ICase Study (Project Dolphin & Project Starfish)Accounts Receivable and Accounts PayableContract Accounts Receivable and PayableBank AccountingAsset Accounting In Vol. I of the title we have covered: SAP HANA SAP S/4HANASAP S/4HANA FinanceCase Study (Project Dolphin & Project Oyster)Enterprise StructureFI Global Settings I (Fields, Ledgers, Fiscal Year, Posting Period, Parallel Accounting, Integration of SAP CO with SAP FI, and Company Code Global Parameters)FI Global Settings II (Documents, Inflation Accounting and Correspondence)FI Global Settings III (Taxes including Extended Withholding Tax)General Ledger Accounting To give you an idea of what has been covered in 'Configuring SAP Financial Accounting - Vol. I', we have captured the details, in this book, in a Chapter-wise summary of that coverage with configuration highlights that has been discussed in each of those Chapters, from 1 to 9.The book covers Accounts Receivable (FI-A/R) and Accounts Payable (FI-A/P), in detail. It covers customer and vendor accounts, business transactions associated with both FI-A/R and FI-A/P and the information system. In business transactions, you will see topics like incoming invoices, release for payment, payments (outgoing & incoming, manual and automatic), dunning, open item clearing, down payment processing, adjustment posting, interest calculation and closing operations.In Contracts Accounts Receivable and Payable (SAP FICA), with a separate case study (Project Starfish), we discuss the functionality and the configuration required for setting up of SAP FICA for a business.In Bank Accounting (FI-BL), you will learn about bank master data (bank directory, house bank, business partner's bank, bank distribution etc.), bank chains, payment transactions including manual & electronic bank statement, lockbox processing, cash journal and online payments.The book covers Asset Accounting (FI-AA) in great detail. It covers the organizational structure, structuring fixed assets in FI-AA (including special forms of assets, asset classes etc.), integration of FI-AA with other SAP components including SAP FI-G/L, general & special valuation, depreciation, master data, transactions (like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, capitalization of assets under construction etc.), FI-AA information system, asset data transfer, preparations for going live and overview for experts.As with my other books on SAP, this book also follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Efforts have been taken, throughout the book, to guide you step-by-step in understanding how to configure your SAP system, to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you understand a topic or a configuration setting or a concept better. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide), for easy comprehension. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various activities.In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will certainly find this as informative and easy to comprehend.

This book on 'Configuring SAP Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable (SAP S/4HANA Finance)' covers: Case Study Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Customer Accounts Vendor Accounts Incoming Invoices / Credit Memos Release for Payment Outgoing Payments Outgoing Invoices / Credit Memos Incoming Payments Payments with Payment Cards Dunning Open Item Clearing Down Payment Received Down Payment Made Adjustment Posting / Reversal Interest Calculation Closing Information System Apps for FI-A/R & FI-A/P The book starts with a case study that forms the basis for further discussions across the various Chapters. The case study mirrors a real life business enterprise that wants to implement SAP Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable components, as a part of configuring SAP FI. The book provides an overview of SAP Accounts Receivable (FI-A/R) and Accounts Payable (FI-A/P). It, then, goes on to discuss customer and vendor accounts, in detail. It outlines the structure of customer / vendor master records, and elaborates the preparations and the configuration settings that you may need to make in the system to create / change / delete the master records. It discusses the various business transactions of both FI-A/R and FI-A/P viz., incoming invoices / credit memos, release for payment, outgoing payments, outgoing invoices / credit memos, incoming payments, payments with payment cards, dunning, open item clearing, down payment received / made, adjustment posting / reversal, interest calculation, closing, information system and Apps for SAP FI-A/R and FI-A/P. It helps you to comprehend the configuration activities that you need to complete, in setting up these transactions in the system. For example, on configuring the settings for outgoing payments, it discusses (in detail) the global settings and the steps that are required for setting up the manual and the automatic payments. In dunning, it deals with basic settings, dunning procedure, printout, dunning process flow etc. In interest calculation, it starts with the fields (in customer / vendor master) that are relevant for item interest calculation and goes on to discuss the interest calculation process, global settings, actual interest calculation, interest posting and interest letters. In closing, it discusses the important closing operations like count (including balance confirmation), valuate and reclassify, in great detail. The book also discusses the FI-A/R and FI-A/P information system besides discussing the Apps for accounts receivable / accounts payable accountants, managers and credit controllers. As with my other books on SAP, this also follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Every effort has been taken to guide you, step-by-step, in configuring your SAP system in implementing SAP Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, in SAP S/4HANA (1909), to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you understand better a topic or a setting or a concept. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide) for easy comprehension. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various configuration activities. In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI-A/R and FI-A/P.

This book on 'Configuring SAP Financial Accounting' in SAP S/4HANA Finance, has been published in two volumes: Volume I and Volume II.The Volume I (this book) covers: Case StudyEnterprise StructureFI Global Settings I (Fields, Ledgers, Fiscal Year, Posting Period, Parallel Accounting, Integration of SAP CO with SAP FI, and Company Code Global Parameters)FI Global Settings II (Documents, Inflation Accounting and Correspondence)FI Global Settings III (Taxes including Extended Withholding Tax)G/L Accounting The Volume II covers: Case StudyAccounts Receivable and Accounts PayableContract Accounts Receivable and PayableBank AccountingAsset Accounting Here, in Volume I, you will learn about the context and relevance of SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Finance, before actually learning the configuration of SAP Financial Accounting.This book follows a case-study approach with a story-board technique, that provides you with the required business background for a given configuration activity. Towards configuring SAP FI, you will start your learning with SAP enterprise structure focussing on SAP FI/CO organizational units, their definition and assignment. Then, you will learn about FI global settings, in great detail, spread over three Chapters. You will learn about fields, ledgers, field status variants, fiscal year and posting periods. You will also learn parallel accounting, integration of SAP Controlling with SAP FI and configuring company code global parameters. Later, you will learn about documents (document structure, document types, posting keys, screen variants, document change rules, bar code entry, tolerance groups, summarization, default values, business transaction types, recurring entries, document parking and document archiving) besides inflation accounting and correspondence. Finally, in FI global settings, you will learn taxes: the tax on sales and purchases, the settings required for calculation / posting and interfacing your SAP system with external tax application (Vertex). You will also learn about withholding tax, including extended withholding tax: the configuration settings and how to manage withholding tax changeover.You will also learn SAP G/L Accounting, in great detail, covering the preparations required for creating the master data including chart of accounts, account groups, sample accounts etc. You will learn how to create / process G/L accounts, besides understanding the configuration towards business transactions like document splitting, cross-company code transactions, open item clearing, balance interest calculation, closing operations, and preparing for 'going live'.As with my other books on SAP, this book also follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Efforts have been taken, throughout the book, to guide you step-by-step in understanding how to configure your SAP system, to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you understand a topic or a configuration setting or a concept better. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide), for easy comprehension. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various activities.In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will certainly find this as informative and easy to comprehend.