Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4 HANA (S4F12) Training Course
SAP S/4HANA Finance operates as a business suite built upon SAP’s database infrastructure and its in-memory computing platform, SAP HANA. The 'Fundamentals of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA (S4F12)' module offers a comprehensive overview of implementing Financial Accounting (FA) capabilities within SAP S/4HANA to address specific business needs.
This instructor-led live training, available either online or onsite, is designed for application consultants and business process owners who wish to learn how to configure business processes for the SAP S/4HANA financials module.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Grasp the fundamental customizing settings within the primary components of Financial Accounting using SAP S/4HANA.
- Configure master data settings (such as G/L accounts, as well as customer and vendor accounts) for FA within SAP S/4HANA.
- Set up document control, posting control, and financial document clearing settings for FA in SAP S/4HANA.
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Numerous exercises and practical sessions.
- Hands-on implementation in a live laboratory environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training program for this course, please contact us to arrange it.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Overview of SAP S/4 HANA
- Introduction to SAP Fiori
Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration
- Managing organizational units in FI
- Checking the basic settings in new General Ledger (G/L) accounting
- Outlining the variant principle
- Managing fiscal year variants
Managing Master Data
- Maintaining G/L accounts
- Creating profit centers and segments
- Managing customer and vendor accounts
Document Control
- Configuring the header and line items of 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
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Business Processes in Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA (S4F10/S4F10E)
- Knowledge in financial accounting
Audience
- Application consultants
- Business process owners
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