Account Determination in SAP S/4HANA: Business Processes and Configuration

Ready to streamline your SAP S/4HANA Finance system? Learn how to determine accounts for your core business areas, including materials management, sales and distribution, accounts receivable and payable, cash and banking, and fixed assets. Follow step-by-step instructions to configure automatic account determination for each process in your system. Your journey to simplified accounting starts here!

• Explore the core business processes that impact accounting in SAP S/4HANA
• Configure account determination in purchasing, sales, accounts receivable and payable, and more
• Leverage automatic account determination to improve efficiency for your organization

Accounting Essentials
Understand what account determination is and why it’s important. Learn how your core SAP S/4HANA Finance business transactions work together with accounting and set up business logic to accurately reflect events in your financials system.

Step-by-Step Configuration
Follow detailed, click-by-click instructions to configure account determination for each of your key business processes, from materials management to cash and banking. Use troubleshooting tips to help you work through potential pitfalls.

Automatic Determination
Save time and resources by setting up automatic determination. Walk through the configuration steps for automating account determination to make your processes quicker and more efficient.

• Determination logic
• Master data
• Materials management
• Sales and distribution
• Plant maintenance
• Production planning
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable
• Cash and banking
• Fixed assets

Abdullah Ali Ahmed Galal Ali is an SAP-certified finance, controlling, and integration consultant and trainer. He has international experience in SAP implementations, support, and training projects.

Jonas Tritschler is a managing director at an IT consulting firm. As a certified accountant and holder of a PhD in accounting, he trains CPAs in SAP for performing financial audits and internal control tests over the preparation of financial statements. In 2020, he became a professor of accounting at the University of Victoria, Berlin. Jonas is responsible for the audit and evaluation of IT systems and applications, and ensures the security and compliance of applications, especially in the sensitive areas of accounting and finance. In this role, he benefits from his experience as an SAP user, which he gained over many years as interim manager and CFO.