SAP FICO End User

This SAP FI document offers simple step-by-step instructions to guide you through a procedure, or to assist you in understanding the full impact of a particular function of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules of following items:

Accounts Receivable

• Customer Master: Create/ Change/Display Master Data (FD01, FD02, FD03)
• Down Payment from Customer: Down Payment Request (F-37), Down Payment from Customer Using Request (F-29), Down Payment from Customer Without Request (F-29), Clearing Down Payment Request (F-39)
• Customer Invoicing and Credit Memo: Enter Customer Invoice (F-22), Clear Customer Line Items (F-32), Display/Change Customer Line Items (FBL5N)
• Incoming Payments from Customers: Incoming Payments (F-28)

Accounts Payable

• Vendor Master: Create/ Change/Display Master Data (FK01, FK02, FK03)
• Vendor Invoice: Enter Vendor Invoice (FB60), Vendor Credit Memo (FB65)
• Payment to Vendor: Post Outgoing Payment (F-53), Automatic Payment Program (F110), Create Down Payment Request (F-47), Clear Vendor Down Payment (F-54), Clear Vendor Line Items (F-44)

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This document serves as an internal user guide for the core functionalities of the SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling) module. It covers various processes from general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank and cash transactions to asset management. The document provides step-by-step instructions for transaction processing, period-end closing, reporting, and master data maintenance within SAP FICO.

Key Topics/Steps Covered:

1. 1. General Ledger (GL): This section explains the organizational structures and master data setup for general ledger accounts. It includes steps for parking and posting GL documents (FV50, FBV0), directly entering GL documents (FB50), changing (FB02), displaying (FB03), and reversing documents (FB08). It also covers clearing open items (F-03, F-04), creating and managing recurring entries (FBD1, FBD2, F.14, F.56), accruals/deferrals (FBS1, F.81) and foreign currency valuation (FAGL_FC_VAL). Reporting aspects, such as executing financial statements, displaying GL balances and line items (S_ALR_87012284/F.01, FAGLB03, FBL3N), are also described.
   2. Accounts Payable (AP): This section details AP processes, including parking (F-63), changing (FBV2), displaying (FBV3), and posting vendor invoices and credit memos (FB60, FB65). It also covers posting outgoing payments (F-53), clearing vendor accounts (F-44), resetting cleared items (FBRA), document reversal (FB08), and handling down payments (F-47, F-48, F-54). Automatic payment runs (F110) and check management (FCH3, FCH9, FCH8, FCHN) are also explained. Further correspondence requests (FB12, F.61) and foreign currency revaluation (FAGL_FC_VAL) are included along with vendor balance (FK10N) and line item (FBL1N) reports.
   3. Accounts Receivable (AR): This section focuses on AR transactions, such as parking (FV70) and posting customer invoices and credit memos (FB70, FB75), changing parked documents (FV70), displaying accounting documents (FB03), posting incoming payments (F-28), resetting cleared items (FBRA), document reversals (FB08) and clearing customer accounts (F-32). Customer balance display (FD10N), account analysis (FD11) and customer line items (FBL5N) reports are covered.
   4. Bank and Cash Transactions: This part describes managing petty cash using the cash journal (FBCJ), including recording cash receipts and expenses, and reversing cash journal entries.
   5. Asset Management: This section includes overview of asset accounting process. Topics covered are asset master data creation (AS01), changing (AS02), displaying (AS03), locking assets (AS05), asset acquisitions (F-90), and viewing asset values (AW01N).

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These documents are for anyone with the ambition to have FI-CO customizing skills in SAP. These documents cover an introduction for each topic which you can start from scratch, without prior SAP skills. Includes SAP end user guides before you continue with SAP configuration training.

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This document hepls users to understand the product costing functionality in SAP along with the corresponding configuration settings.

• Product Cost Planning
  • Controlling Area and Version settings
  • Cost Component Structure overview
  • Master data for product costing (materials, BoM, Recipe etc.)
  • Costing variants / Valuation variant /Transfer Control concepts
  • Costing type, Costing version, Marking allowance
  • Costing sheets for overheads
  • Cost center planning and activity rates
  • Joint production, co-products, by-products
  • Costing of materials sourced from other plants
• Cost Object Controlling
  • Process Order Costing
  • Overheads Application
  • Period End: WIP/Variances/Settlement
  • FI Entries for Process Order Steps and PE Closing
  • Actual Activity Price Calculation and Cost Center absorption

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In this post you will find reference guides to sub-modules of SAP Finance module with step by step instructions even for novice users. The contents of the documents are as following:

• Accounts Payable Overview: Explain how SAP FI Accounts Payable functions and invoice processing in general
• Accounts Payable Process: Teach end users how to enter Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments and perform all other Accounts Payable (A/P) activities
• Accounts Receivable Overview: Explain the key changes that will take place in the Accounts Receivable process
• Accounts Receivable Process: explain the steps involved in Customer Invoice Processing (AR), Incoming Payment Processing, Collections and Write-offs
• General Ledger Process: explain the General Ledger process and how other areas interact with the General Ledger process
• Asset Accounting Overview: defines the high-level process, roles within the process and the interactions between the Asset Accounting process and other business areas within SAP
• Asset Accounting Process: explains how to maintain an asset under construction, how to execute the asset capitalization process for assets under construction, standalone assets, and finance leases. It details how to complete a depreciation run; the transaction to impair an asset; the transaction to retire an asset by donation, scrapping, and sale; and the transaction to transfer an asset and mass transfer multiple assets.

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This document provides very detailed step-by-step and screenshot-by-screenshot explanations for the Finance & Controlling module of SAP. The guide is very well documented with annotations on each screenshot to identify the area you need to select, action or note.

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