Account Determination in SAP S/4HANA

Business Processes and Configuration

Book Information

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Authors: Abdullah Galal, Jonas Tritschler
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• Pages: 335
• Language: English

Description

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

Key Highlights

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

You'll learn about

• 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.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Objective of This Book
• Target Audience
• Structure of This Book
• Acknowledgments

• 1 Materials Management
• 1.1 Normal Purchasing
• 1.1.1 Business Process Overview
• 1.1.2 Inventory Accounts (Transaction Key Technique)
• 1.1.3 Price Variance Account
• 1.1.4 Inventory GR/IR Accounts
• 1.1.5 Condition-Related Accounts
• 1.1.6 Vendor Reconciliation Accounts
• 1.1.7 Unplanned Delivery Costs Accounts
• 1.1.8 Input Tax Accounts
• 1.1.9 Withholding Tax Accounts
• 1.2 Purchasing of Consumables
• 1.2.1 Business Process Overview
• 1.2.2 Consumption/Expense Accounts
• 1.3 Purchase Account Management
• 1.3.1 Business Process Overview
• 1.3.2 Inventory Purchasing Management Account
• 1.3.3 Freight Purchasing Management Account
• 1.3.4 Purchasing Management Offsetting Account
• 1.4 Vendor Consignment
• 1.4.1 Vendor Consignment versus Customer Consignment
• 1.4.2 Business Process Overview
• 1.4.3 Consignment GR/IR Account
• 1.5 Summary

• 2 Sales and Distribution
• 2.1 Sales from Stock
• 2.1.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.1.2 COGS Accounts at Goods Issue
• 2.1.3 COGS Split Accounts
• 2.1.4 Sales Revenue, Discounts, and Surcharges Accounts (The Condition Technique)
• 2.1.5 Accounts Receivable
• 2.1.6 Value-Added Tax Accounts
• 2.1.7 Withholding Tax Accounts
• 2.2 Sales from Stock with COGS Posting at Billing
• 2.2.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.2.2 Goods in Transit Account at Goods Issue
• 2.2.3 COGS and Goods in Transit Accounts at Sales Billing
• 2.3 Sales from Stock with Valuated Stock in Transit
• 2.3.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.3.2 Valuated Stock in Transit Account
• 2.4 Sales Returns
• 2.4.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.4.2 Sales Returns Accounts
• 2.4.3 Scrap Expense Account
• 2.5 Third-Party Sales
• 2.5.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.5.2 Third-Party Sales Consumption Account
• 2.6 Cash Sales
• 2.6.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.6.2 Cash Accounts
• 2.7 Free-of-Charge Sales
• 2.7.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.7.2 Determination of Free-of-Charge COGS Account
• 2.8 Consignment Sales (Customer Consignment)
• 2.8.1 Sales Consignment Fill-Up
• 2.8.2 Sales Consignment Issue
• 2.8.3 Sales Consignment Pick-Up
• 2.8.4 Sales Consignment Return
• 2.9 Sales Rebates
• 2.9.1 Business Process Overview
• 2.9.2 Sales Rebate Accrual and Expense Accounts
• 2.10 Summary

• 3 Production Planning and Product Costing
• 3.1 Product Cost Planning
• 3.1.1 Cost Elements: Direct Material Costs
• 3.1.2 Cost Elements: Manufacturing Activities
• 3.1.3 Cost Elements: Manufacturing Overhead
• 3.1.4 Assign Cost Elements to Cost Components
• 3.1.5 Save, Mark, and Release Standard Cost Estimates
• 3.2 Cost Object Controlling
• 3.2.1 Cost Object Controlling Process Overview
• 3.2.2 Work-in-Progress Settlement Accounts
• 3.2.3 Production Variances Settlement Accounts
• 3.3 Summary

• 4 Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
• 4.1 Reconciliation Accounts
• 4.1.1 Concept Overview
• 4.1.2 Create Reconciliation Accounts
• 4.1.3 Assign Reconciliation Accounts to Business Partners
• 4.2 Down Payments and Down Payment Requests
• 4.2.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.2.2 Assign Down Payment Accounts
• 4.2.3 Other Alternative Reconciliation Account Process
• 4.3 Value-Added Taxes
• 4.3.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.3.2 Input and Output Tax Accounts
• 4.4 Manual Incoming and Outgoing Payments
• 4.4.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.4.2 Cash Discount Accounts
• 4.4.3 Accounts for Overpayments and Underpayments
• 4.4.4 Rounding Difference Accounts
• 4.5 Automatic Incoming and Outgoing Payments
• 4.5.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.5.2 Automatic Payment Accounts
• 4.6 Withholding Taxes
• 4.6.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.6.2 Withholding Tax Accounts
• 4.7 Interest Calculation
• 4.7.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.7.2 Account Determination Objects
• 4.7.3 Interest Accounts
• 4.8 GR/IR Analysis
• 4.8.1 Business Process Overview
• 4.8.2 GR/IR Analysis Accounts
• 4.9 Summary

• 5 Cash and Banking
• 5.1 House Bank and Other Subaccounts
• 5.1.1 House Bank
• 5.1.2 Bank Subaccounts by Payment Method
• 5.2 Account Determination
• 5.2.1 Objects for Automatic Payment Transactions
• 5.2.2 Internal Transactions Type
• 5.2.3 External Transactions Type
• 5.2.4 Interpretation Algorithm
• 5.2.5 Posting Rules
• 5.3 Automatic Bank Statements
• 5.3.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.3.2 Automatic Bank Statement Accounts
• 5.4 Manual Bank Statements
• 5.4.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.4.2 Manual Bank Statements Accounts
• 5.5 Deposited Check Transaction
• 5.5.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.5.2 Deposited Check Configuration
• 5.6 Lockbox
• 5.6.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.6.2 Lockbox Account Determination
• 5.7 Payment Request Process
• 5.7.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.7.2 Payment Request Account Determination
• 5.8 Bill of Exchange
• 5.8.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.8.2 Bill of Exchange Accounts Receivable Transaction Accounts
• 5.8.3 Bill of Exchange Account Payable Transaction Accounts
• 5.9 Cash Journal
• 5.9.1 Business Process Overview
• 5.9.2 Cash Journal Accounts
• 5.10 Summary

• 6 Fixed Assets
• 6.1 Fixed Asset Account Determination Logic
• 6.1.1 Asset Class
• 6.1.2 Depreciation Area
• 6.1.3 Accounting Principle
• 6.1.4 Chart of Depreciation
• 6.1.5 Account Determination
• 6.1.6 Other Asset Accounting Objects
• 6.1.7 General Ledger Account Determination
• 6.2 Asset Acquisition and Asset Capitalization
• 6.2.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.2.2 Asset Acquisition Account
• 6.2.3 Offsetting Entry Accounts
• 6.2.4 Offsetting for Post Capitalization
• 6.3 Asset Depreciation
• 6.3.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.3.2 Ordinary Depreciation Accounts
• 6.3.3 Unplanned Depreciation Accounts
• 6.3.4 Special Depreciation Accounts
• 6.4 Asset Retirement by Sales
• 6.4.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.4.2 Gain and Losses Accounts from Asset Sales
• 6.5 Asset Scrap or Disposal
• 6.5.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.5.2 Scrap and Disposal Accounts
• 6.6 Asset Intercompany Transfer
• 6.6.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.6.2 Acquisition from Affiliates Account and Revenue of Sale to Affiliates Account
• 6.7 Asset under Construction
• 6.7.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.7.2 Accounts for Asset under Construction Settlement
• 6.7.3 Accounts for Capitalization of Down Payments
• 6.8 Asset Revaluation Postings
• 6.8.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.8.2 Revaluations of Acquisitions and Offsetting Accounts
• 6.9 Investment Support
• 6.9.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.9.2 Accounts for Investment Support Transactions
• 6.10 Imputed Interest Calculation
• 6.10.1 Business Process Overview
• 6.10.2 Accounts for Imputed Interest Calculation
• 6.11 Summary

• 1 The Authors

• Index

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