Configuring SAP S/4HANA Finance
Book Information
- Publisher: SAP PRESS
- Authors: Stoil Jotev
- Year: 2025
- Edition: 3
- Pages: 744
- Language: English
Description
Starting a new SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation? Get it right the first time! From setting up an organizational structure to defining master data, this comprehensive guide to configuring SAP S/4HANA Finance walks you through each key task. Follow step-by-step instructions organized by functional area: general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, margin analysis, group reporting, and more. Customize SAP S/4HANA to meet your FI/CO needs!
- Set up financial accounting and controlling processes in SAP S/4HANA
- Configure your system with step-by-step instructions
- Prepare for testing, go-live, and production support
Key Highlights
- Controlling
- Financial accounting
- General ledger
- Accounts payable (AP)
- Accounts receivable (AR)
- Asset accounting
- Bank accounting
- Cost center accounting
- Internal orders
- Margin analysis
- Predictive accounting
- Group reporting
You'll learn about
- Preparation:
Choose the right implementation approach for your SAP S/4HANA Finance project, apply best practices for setting your project scope and timelines, and conduct requirements analysis.
- Configuration:
Set up global finance settings and then configure each financial accounting and controlling process with step-by-step instructions. Learn how to define master data and use the new business partners paradigm.
- Go-Live:
Understand the migration process for legacy data; perform unit, integration and user acceptance testing; and then prepare for and run your go-live.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Objective of This Book
- Target Audience
- Organization of This Book
- How to Read This Book
- New (Greenfield) Implementations
- System Conversion (Brownfield) Implementations
- Introduction
- Your New SAP S/4HANA System
- SAP HANA Database
- SAP S/4HANA
- Your New Finance Solution
- Advances in Finance
- SAP Fiori User Experience
- Configuration Interface
- Summary
- 1 SAP S/4HANA Implementation Options
- 1.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA
- 1.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- 1.3 SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- 1.4 Central Finance with SAP S/4HANA
- 1.5 Summary
- 2 Project Preparation
- 2.1 Defining Your Project Objectives
- 2.2 Greenfield Implementations versus Brownfield Implementations
- 2.3 Defining the Project Scope
- 2.4 Defining the Project Timeline
- 2.5 Assembling the Project Team
- 2.6 Summary
- 3 Requirements Analysis
- 3.1 Template Requirements Analysis
- 3.1.1 Financial Accounting
- 3.1.2 Controlling
- 3.1.3 Integration with Logistics
- 3.2 Localization Fit/Gap Analysis
- 3.2.1 Localization Overview
- 3.2.2 Local Accounting Standards
- 3.2.3 Local Tax Requirements
- 3.2.4 Other Local Requirements
- 3.3 Summary
- 4 Financial Accounting Global Settings
- 4.1 New Finance Data Model in SAP S/4HANA
- 4.1.1 Universal Journal
- 4.1.2 Real-Time Integration with Controlling
- 4.2 Organizational Structure
- 4.2.1 Company
- 4.2.2 Company Code
- 4.2.3 Controlling Area
- 4.2.4 Operating Concern
- 4.3 Ledgers
- 4.4 Universal Parallel Accounting
- 4.5 Document Types
- 4.5.1 Document Type Settings
- 4.5.2 Number Ranges
- 4.5.3 Document Types for Entry View in a Ledger
- 4.6 Currencies
- 4.6.1 Currency Types
- 4.6.2 Exchange Rate Type
- 4.6.3 Exchange Rates
- 4.7 Taxes
- 4.7.1 Tax Procedure
- 4.7.2 Tax Codes
- 4.8 Summary
- 5 General Ledger
- 5.1 Master Data
- 5.1.1 Chart of Accounts
- 5.1.2 Account Groups
- 5.1.3 General Ledger Accounts
- 5.2 Document Splitting
- 5.2.1 Document Splitting Characteristics
- 5.2.2 Classification of General Ledger Accounts for Document Splitting
- 5.2.3 Classification of Document Types for Document Splitting
- 5.2.4 Defining Document Splitting Characteristics for General Ledger Accounting
- 5.2.5 Defining Zero-Balance Clearing Account
- 5.3 Automatic Postings and Account Determination
- 5.3.1 Purchasing Flows
- 5.3.2 Sales Flows
- 5.3.3 Automatic Postings in Financial Accounting
- 5.4 Periodic Processing and Financial Closing
- 5.4.1 Posting Periods
- 5.4.2 Intercompany Reconciliation
- 5.4.3 Foreign Currency Valuation
- 5.4.4 Account Clearing
- 5.4.5 Balance Carryforward
- 5.4.6 Manage Balance Validation Rules and Groups App
- 5.4.7 Financial Closing Cockpit
- 5.5 Information System
- 5.5.1 Balance Reports
- 5.5.2 Financial Statements
- 5.5.3 Tax Reports
- 5.5.4 Drilldown Reporting
- 5.6 SAP Fiori Apps
- 5.6.1 Post General Journal Entries App
- 5.6.2 Manage Journal Entries App
- 5.6.3 Upload General Journal Entries App
- 5.7 Summary
- 6 Accounts Payable
- 6.1 Business Partner
- 6.1.1 General Data
- 6.1.2 Company Code Data
- 6.1.3 Business Partner Configuration
- 6.2 Business Transactions
- 6.2.1 Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos in Financial Accounting
- 6.2.2 Posting with Alternative Reconciliation Account
- 6.2.3 Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos from Materials Management
- 6.2.4 Tax Determination in the Purchasing Process
- 6.2.5 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Clearing
- 6.2.6 Payment Terms and Outgoing Payments
- 6.3 Information System
- 6.3.1 Master Data Reports
- 6.3.2 Balance Reports
- 6.3.3 Line-Item Reports
- 6.4 Summary
- 7 Accounts Receivable
- 7.1 Business Partners
- 7.1.1 General Data
- 7.1.2 Company Code Data
- 7.1.3 Sales Data
- 7.1.4 Business Partner Configuration
- 7.2 Business Transactions
- 7.2.1 Outgoing Invoices/Credit Memos in Financial Accounting
- 7.2.2 Outgoing Invoices/Credit Memos in SAP S/4HANA Sales
- 7.2.3 Pricing Procedure in Sales
- 7.2.4 Incoming Payments and Payment Terms
- 7.3 Taxes
- 7.3.1 Taxes in Financial Accounting Invoices
- 7.3.2 Tax Determination in the Sales Process
- 7.4 Customer Correspondence
- 7.4.1 Open Items List
- 7.4.2 Account Statement
- 7.4.3 Balance Confirmation
- 7.5 Information System
- 7.5.1 Master Data Reports
- 7.5.2 Balance Reports
- 7.5.3 Line-Item Reports
- 7.6 Summary
- 8 Fixed Assets
- 8.1 Organizational Structures
- 8.1.1 Chart of Depreciation
- 8.1.2 Depreciation Areas
- 8.1.3 Asset Classes
- 8.2 Master Data
- 8.2.1 Screen Layout
- 8.2.2 Account Determination
- 8.2.3 Number Ranges
- 8.2.4 User Fields and Asset Supernumbers
- 8.2.5 Asset Numbers, Subnumbers, and Group Numbers
- 8.3 Business Transactions
- 8.3.1 Acquisitions
- 8.3.2 Transfers
- 8.3.3 Retirement
- 8.4 Valuation and Closing
- 8.4.1 New Asset Accounting Concept
- 8.4.2 Multiple Valuation Principles
- 8.4.3 Depreciation Key
- 8.4.4 Depreciation Run
- 8.4.5 Revaluation
- 8.4.6 Manual Value Correction
- 8.4.7 Year-End Closing Activities
- 8.5 Information System
- 8.5.1 Asset Explorer
- 8.5.2 Asset Balance Reports
- 8.5.3 Asset History Sheet
- 8.6 Summary
- 9 Bank Accounting
- 9.1 Master Data
- 9.1.1 Bank Keys
- 9.1.2 House Banks
- 9.1.3 Bank Accounts and International Bank Account Numbers
- 9.1.4 Simplified Bank General Ledger Accounts
- 9.2 Automatic Payment Program
- 9.2.1 Automatic Payment Program Parameters
- 9.2.2 Automatic Payment Program Global Settings
- 9.2.3 Payment Method
- 9.2.4 Bank Determination
- 9.2.5 Common Issues with the Payment Program
- 9.3 Payment Files
- 9.3.1 Single Euro Payments Area Payment Files
- 9.3.2 Other Common Formats
- 9.4 Electronic Bank Statements
- 9.4.1 Overview
- 9.4.2 Account Symbols
- 9.4.3 Posting Rules
- 9.4.4 Transaction Types
- 9.4.5 Reprocessing Rules
- 9.4.6 Editing Journal Entries during Simulation
- 9.5 Summary
- 10 General Controlling and Cost Element Accounting
- 10.1 General Controlling Settings
- 10.1.1 Maintaining Controlling Areas
- 10.1.2 Number Ranges
- 10.1.3 Versions
- 10.2 Master Data
- 10.2.1 Cost Elements
- 10.2.2 Cost Element Groups
- 10.3 Actual Postings
- 10.3.1 Manual Reposting
- 10.3.2 Activity Allocation
- 10.4 Summary
- 11 Cost Center Accounting
- 11.1 Master Data
- 11.1.1 Cost Centers
- 11.1.2 Cost Center Groups
- 11.1.3 Activity Types
- 11.1.4 Statistical Key Figures
- 11.2 Actual Postings
- 11.2.1 Automatic Account Assignment
- 11.2.2 Substitutions for Account Assignment
- 11.3 Periodic Allocations
- 11.3.1 Accrual Calculation
- 11.3.2 Distribution
- 11.3.3 Assessment
- 11.3.4 Activity Allocation
- 11.4 Planning
- 11.4.1 Basic Settings for Planning
- 11.4.2 Manual Planning
- 11.5 Information System
- 11.5.1 Standard Reports
- 11.5.2 User-Defined Reports
- 11.6 Summary
- 12 Internal Orders
- 12.1 Master Data
- 12.1.1 Order Types
- 12.1.2 Screen Layouts
- 12.1.3 Number Ranges
- 12.1.4 Creating Internal Orders
- 12.2 Budgeting
- 12.3 Actual Postings and Periodic Allocations
- 12.3.1 Settlement
- 12.3.2 Periodic Reposting
- 12.4 Planning
- 12.4.1 Basic Settings
- 12.4.2 Statistical Key Figures
- 12.4.3 Allocations
- 12.5 Information System
- 12.5.1 Standard Reports
- 12.5.2 Report Painter Reports
- 12.5.3 Internal Orders Plan/Actual App
- 12.6 Summary
- 13 Profit Center Accounting
- 13.1 Master Data
- 13.1.1 Profit Centers
- 13.1.2 Profit Center Groups
- 13.1.3 Standard Hierarchies
- 13.2 Profit Center Derivation
- 13.2.1 Account Assignment Objects
- 13.2.2 Document Splitting
- 13.2.3 Profit Center Substitution
- 13.3 Information System
- 13.3.1 Standard Reporting
- 13.3.2 Drilldown Reporting
- 13.4 Summary
- 14 Margin Analysis
- 14.1 Overview of Margin Analysis
- 14.1.1 Costing-Based Profitability Analysis
- 14.1.2 Account-Based Profitability Analysis/Margin Analysis
- 14.2 Master Data
- 14.2.1 Operating Concern
- 14.2.2 Data Structure
- 14.2.3 Operating Concern Attributes
- 14.2.4 Characteristics Hierarchy
- 14.2.5 Characteristic Derivation
- 14.3 Data Flow
- 14.3.1 Invoice Value Flow
- 14.3.2 Overhead Costs Flow
- 14.3.3 Top-Down Distribution
- 14.3.4 Production Costs Flow
- 14.4 Integrated Planning
- 14.4.1 Planning Framework
- 14.4.2 Planning Elements
- 14.5 Information System
- 14.5.1 Line-Item Lists
- 14.5.2 Drilldown Reporting
- 14.6 Summary
- 15 Predictive Accounting
- 15.1 Configuration
- 15.1.1 Ledger Settings
- 15.1.2 Mapping the Predictive Ledger
- 15.1.3 Activate Extension Ledger
- 15.1.4 Activate Predictive Accounting for Sales Orders
- 15.1.5 Maintain Billing Types for Predictive Accounting
- 15.1.6 Maintain Sales Order Item Categories for Predictive Accounting
- 15.2 Data Flow
- 15.2.1 Sales Orders
- 15.2.2 Goods Movements and Billing Documents
- 15.3 Information System
- 15.3.1 Incoming Sales Orders – Predictive Accounting App
- 15.3.2 Monitor Predictive Accounting App
- 15.4 Summary
- 16 Product Costing
- 16.1 Master Data
- 16.1.1 Material Master
- 16.1.2 Bill of Materials
- 16.1.3 Work Center
- 16.1.4 Routing
- 16.2 Product Cost Planning
- 16.2.1 Costing Variant Components
- 16.2.2 Creating the Costing Variant
- 16.2.3 Cost Component Structure
- 16.2.4 Costing Sheet
- 16.2.5 Material Cost Estimates
- 16.3 Actual Costing and Material Ledger
- 16.3.1 Overview and Material Ledger Activation
- 16.3.2 Multiple Currencies and Valuations
- 16.3.3 Material Ledger Update
- 16.3.4 Actual Costing
- 16.3.5 Actual Costing Cockpit
- 16.4 Information System
- 16.4.1 Product Cost Planning
- 16.4.2 Actual Costing and Material Ledger
- 16.4.3 Drilldown Reporting
- 16.5 Summary
- 17 Group Reporting
- 17.1 Group Reporting Basics
- 17.1.1 What Is Group Reporting?
- 17.1.2 Historical Group Reporting in SAP
- 17.1.3 Key Benefits
- 17.2 Global Settings
- 17.2.1 Prerequisites
- 17.2.2 Consolidation Ledgers
- 17.2.3 Consolidation Versions
- 17.2.4 Multiple Group Currencies and Extension Consolidation Versions
- 17.2.5 Dimensions
- 17.3 Data Collection and Consolidation Configuration
- 17.3.1 Financial Statement Items
- 17.3.2 Subitem Categories and Subitems
- 17.3.3 Document Types
- 17.3.4 Number Ranges
- 17.3.5 Data Collection Tasks
- 17.3.6 Consolidation of Investments Methods
- 17.3.7 Task Groups
- 17.4 Summary
- 18 Data Migration
- 18.1 Brownfield Implementation Migration
- 18.1.1 Check Programs for SAP S/4HANA Readiness
- 18.1.2 Migration to SAP S/4HANA
- 18.2 Greenfield Implementation Migration
- 18.2.1 Migration Options
- 18.2.2 Migrate Your Data – Migration Cockpit
- 18.3 Financial Migration Objects
- 18.3.1 General Ledger Data
- 18.3.2 Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable Data
- 18.3.3 Fixed Assets Data
- 18.3.4 Controlling-Related Data
- 18.4 Summary
- 19 Testing
- 19.1 The Testing Process
- 19.1.1 Test Plan
- 19.1.2 Testing Tools
- 19.1.3 Testing Documentation
- 19.2 Unit Testing
- 19.2.1 Sandbox Client Testing
- 19.2.2 Unit Testing Client Testing
- 19.3 Integration Testing
- 19.3.1 Planning
- 19.3.2 Phases
- 19.3.3 Documentation
- 19.4 User Acceptance Testing
- 19.4.1 Planning
- 19.4.2 Execution
- 19.4.3 Documentation
- 19.5 Summary
- 20 Go-Live and Support
- 20.1 Preparation for the Go-Live
- 20.1.1 Choosing a Go-Live Date
- 20.1.2 Defining a Cutover Plan and Responsibilities
- 20.1.3 Preparing a Backup Plan
- 20.2 Activities during the Go-Live
- 20.2.1 Technical Activities
- 20.2.2 Financial Accounting Activities
- 20.2.3 Controlling Activities
- 20.3 Validation of the Go-Live
- 20.3.1 Project Team Validation
- 20.3.2 Subject Matter Expert Validation
- 20.4 Hypercare Production Support
- 20.4.1 The First Day
- 20.4.2 Background Jobs
- 20.4.3 Managing Critical Support Incidents
- 20.4.4 Organizing Long-Term Support
- 20.5 Summary
- Appendices
- A Obsolete and New Transaction Codes and Tables in SAP S/4HANA
- B The Author
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