Configuring SAP Asset Accounting: SAP S/4HANA Finance - Softcover

Name: Configuring SAP Asset Accounting: SAP S/4HANA Finance
Author: Veeriah, Narayanan
ISBN: 9798653831157

Veeriah, Narayanan

9798653831157: Configuring SAP Asset Accounting: SAP S/4HANA Finance

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ISBN 13: 9798653831157

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

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Configuring SAP Asset Accounting, 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).

This 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 Implementation Guide with appropriate menu paths and Transactions.

Coverage:

SAP HANA

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA Finance

Case Study

Asset Accounting: Overview

Organizational Structures

Structuring Fixed Assets in FI-AA

Integration

General Valuation

Depreciation

Special Valuations

Master Data

Transactions

Information System

Asset Data Transfer

Preparations for Going Live

Overview for Experts

In this book:

You will learn about SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Finance.

You will learn how to use SAP FI-AA to manage your business entity’s fixed assets internationally. You will learn how to portray your organizational structure. You will understand what a ‘chart of depreciation’ is and how the ‘depreciation areas’ enable managing the rules for asset depreciation / valuation. You will learn how to structure assets.

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. 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.

In all, you will find this book easy to use as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI-AA.

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About the Author

Narayanan Veeriah is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a PMP (from Project Management Institute), and IBM Certified Executive Project Management Professional, having more than 35 years of work experience, in finance, project management and information technology (IT), including 20+ years of experience in SAP implementation and consulting. A member of Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB), he brings along with him a strong domain expertise in Banking and Finance with core competencies in retail banking and credit management, along with SAP.

Narayanan has worked with several multi-national clients for consulting, implementing and supporting SAP, across industries including automotive, banking & finance, electronics, manufacturing, multimedia, pharmaceuticals etc. He has worked with several versions of SAP right from SAP R/3 3.1H to the latest SAP S/4HANA, in new implementations, upgrades and support.

Till recently, he was leading SAP practice, for a couple of industry verticals in a leading multinational IT consulting company. He has authored several books on SAP Finance, besides being a regular guest faculty at management institutions for ERP, SAP, banking & finance and project management.

He is currently a freelance SAP consultant.

From the Back Cover

Configure SAP Asset Accounting to suit your exactbusiness needs! Understand the concepts and learn configuring the systemstep-by-step, through a case-study, with numerous screenshots andillustrations.

Coverage includes:

SAP HANA
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Finance
Asset Accounting:Overview
Organizational Structures
Structuring Fixed Assets in FI-AA
Integration
General Valuation
Depreciation
Special Valuations
Master Data
Transactions
Information System
Asset Data Transfer
Preparations for GoingLive
Overview for Experts

Narayanan Veeriah is a Chartered Financial Analyst and IBM Certified ExecutiveProject Management professional with 35 years of experience in IT / projectmanagement, including 20+ years in SAP. An expert in SAP Finance, tillrecently, he had been leading the SAP practice for a couple of industryverticals, in amultinational IT consulting company.