SAP FICO – Course Content
INTRODUCTION TO SAP R/3
❖ Introduction to ERP and SAP
❖ What is SAP / R/2-R/3 ARCHITECTURE
❖ SAP Server landscape
❖ OVER VIEW OF 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
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❖ 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
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❖ defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
❖ Bills of exchange
❖ posting of sales return
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
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
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❖ 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
❖ Definition of sales 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
CONTROLLING
BASIC SETTINGS FOR CONTROLLING
❖ Defining Controlling Area
❖ Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
❖ Maintain Planning Versions
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