Configuring SAP Financial Accounting - Vol. I: SAP S/4HANA Finance

This book on ‘Configuring SAP Financial Accounting’ in SAP S/4HANA Finance (1909), has been published in two volumes: Volume I and Volume II.

The Volume I (this book) covers:

SAP HANA

SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA Finance

Case Study

Enterprise Structure

FI Global Settings I (Fields, Ledgers, Fiscal Year, Posting Period, Parallel Accounting, Integration of SAP CO with SAP FI, and Company Code Global Parameters)

FI Global Settings II (Documents, Inflation Accounting and Correspondence)

FI Global Settings III (Taxes including Extended Withholding Tax)

G/L Accounting

The Volume II covers:

Case Study

Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable

Bank Accounting

Asset Accounting

Here, in Volume I, you will learn about the context and relevance of SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Finance, before actually learning the configuration of SAP Financial Accounting.

This book follows a case-study approach with a story-board technique, that provides you with the required business background for a given configuration activity. 

Towards configuring SAP FI, you will start your learning with SAP enterprise structure focussing on SAP FI/CO organizational units, their definition and assignment. Then, you will learn about FI global settings, in great detail, spread over three Chapters. You will learn about fields, ledgers, field status variants, fiscal year and posting periods. You will also learn parallel accounting, integration of SAP Controlling with SAP FI and configuring company code global parameters. Later, you will learn about documents (document structure, document types, posting keys, screen variants, document change rules, bar code entry, tolerance groups, summarization, default values, business transaction types, recurring entries, document parking and document archiving) besides inflation accounting and correspondence. Finally, in FI global settings, you will learn taxes: the tax on sales and purchases, the settings required for calculation / posting and interfacing your SAP system with external tax application (Vertex). You will also learn about withholding tax, including extended withholding tax: the configuration settings and how to manage withholding tax changeover.

You will also learn SAP G/L Accounting, in great detail, covering the preparations required for creating the master data including chart of accounts, account groups, sample accounts etc. You will learn how to create / process G/L accounts, besides understanding the configuration towards business transactions like document splitting, cross-company code transactions, open item clearing, balance interest calculation, closing operations, and preparing for ‘going live’.

As with my other books on SAP, this book also 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 (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you ‘see’ what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you understand a topic or a configuration setting or a concept better. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide), for easy comprehension. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various activities.

In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will certainly find this as informative and easy to comprehend.