S4F12: Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA

Course announcements

The course provides an overview of how to implement Financial Accounting capabilities of SAP S/4HANA in order to cover the related business requirements. You will gain the mandatory foundation knowledge required in order to understand and configure business processes for the SAP S/4HANA financials module in the areas of general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable accounting. For the Master Data, the Document Control/Posting Control and Financial Document Clearing you will practice some configurations and verify the result by using the application.

Learning outcomes

This course will prepare you to:

Provide an overview of basic customizing settings in the main components of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
Configure the Master Data Settings (G/L Accounts, Customer and Vendor Accounts) of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
Configure the Document Control and Posting Control Settings of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
Configure the Settings for Financial Document Clearing of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA

Content

Short Overview of SAP S/4HANA
Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration

Managing Organizational Units in Financial Accounting (FI)
Checking the Basic Settings in General Ledger (G/L)

Accounting

Outlining the Variant Principle
Managing Fiscal Year Variants

Master Data

Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
Managing Customer and Vendor Accounts (BP)

Document Control

Configuring the Header and Line Items of Financial Accounting

(FI) Documents

Managing Posting Periods
Managing Posting Authorizations

Posting Control

Analyzing Document Splitting
Maintaining Default Values
Configuring Change Control
Configuring Document Reversal
Configuring Payment Terms and Cash Discounts
Maintaining Taxes and Tax Codes
Posting Cross-Company Code Transactions

Financial Document Clearing

Performing Open Item Clearing
Managing Payment Differences

Audience

Application Consultant
Business Process Owner / Team Lead / Power User

Notes

This course is the essential prerequisite for most follow-on configuration trainings in financial accounting (S/4HANA). If you want to focus on the business process and want to ignore the configuration knowledge for now, you can achieve this by taking the prerequisite courses listed above.

Course information

Course: Outlining the Record-to-Report Process in SAP S/4HANA (F1120)
Course: Describing the Payables Management Process in SAP S/4HANA (F1130)
Course: Describing the Receivables Management Process in SAP S/4HANA (F1140)

Knowledge in the Financial Accounting

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Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting: GL, AP, AR in SAP S/4HANA