Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2023 / 2

Pages 571

Authors Jonas Tritschler, Stefan Walz, Reinhard Rupp, Nertila Mucka

Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

Running accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance? This is your hands-on guide! Learn how financial accounting works with the Universal Journal and understand key organizational structures. Get step-by-step instructions to perform your finance tasks for the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and customer projects and billing. With details on both classic SAP GUI transactions and modern SAP Fiori apps, as well as coverage of new event-based revenue recognition, you’ll find everything you need in these pages!

Perform your daily accounting tasks in SAP S/4HANA Finance
Follow step-by-step instructions to run general ledger accounting, accounts payable and receivable, asset accounting, and more
Explore customer project scenarios and use event-based revenue recognition

You'll learn about:

Finance Fundamentals:
Explore the processes that make up financial accounting: order to cash, purchase to pay, acquire to retire, and record to report. Understand the organizational structures and general ledger master data that provide the foundation to FI.
Tasks and Transactions:
Walk through your core accounting activities, click by click. Post journal entries in the general ledger, create customer and vendor invoices, make payments, process bank statements, manage assets, set up customer projects, and more.
Period-End Close and Reporting:
Close your books and report on your data. In each finance subarea, perform key tasks such as reconciliation, foreign currency valuation, and reclassifications. Learn about key transactions and apps that are available for reporting.

Key Highlights:

General ledger accounting
Accounts payable
Accounts receivable
Asset accounting
Customer projects
Event-based revenue recognition
Organizational structure
Period-end close
Reporting
SAP GUI transactions
SAP Fiori applications

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Foreword
Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- How This Book Is Organized
- Acknowledgments
- Conclusion
1 Introduction to SAP S/4HANA
- 1.1 Deployment Models
  - 1.1.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA
  - 1.1.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Public and Private Edition
  - 1.1.3 Hybrid Models
- 1.2 Universal Journal
  - 1.2.1 Single Source of Truth
  - 1.2.2 One Database and One Data Model for Accounting
  - 1.2.3 Enhanced Reporting
- 1.3 Simplifications and Innovations
  - 1.3.1 Minimized Reconciliations
  - 1.3.2 Extension Ledger versus Special Ledger
  - 1.3.3 Simplified Period-End Close
  - 1.3.4 Management Accounting Integration
  - 1.3.5 Parallel Accounting and Currencies
  - 1.3.6 Predictive Accounting
  - 1.3.7 Event-Based Revenue Recognition
- 1.4 User Interfaces
  - 1.4.1 SAP GUI
  - 1.4.2 Web GUI
  - 1.4.3 SAP Fiori
- 1.5 Summary
2 Organizational Structure and Integration
- 2.1 Standard Financial Accounting Processes
  - 2.1.1 Value Chain Overview
  - 2.1.2 Order-to-Cash and Accounts Receivable
  - 2.1.3 Purchase-to-Pay and Accounts Payable
  - 2.1.4 Acquire-to-Retire and Fixed Asset Accounting
  - 2.1.5 Record-to-Report and General Ledger
- 2.2 Organizational Elements of Financial Accounting
  - 2.2.1 Organizational Structures
  - 2.2.2 Cross-Application Organizational Assignments
  - 2.2.3 Central Financial Accounting Settings and Decisions
- 2.3 Integration of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
  - 2.3.1 Management Accounting Postings in the General Ledger
  - 2.3.2 Market Segment Reporting in the Universal Journal: The Margin Analysis Application
  - 2.3.3 Interface Configuration
  - 2.3.4 Intercompany Management Accounting Postings
- 2.4 Summary
3 General Ledger Accounting
- 3.1 Record-to-Report
  - 3.1.1 Subledger Closing
  - 3.1.2 Reconciliations
  - 3.1.3 Record and Adjust
  - 3.1.4 Period Control
  - 3.1.5 Reporting and Analysis
- 3.2 General Ledger Master Data
  - 3.2.1 Master Data Structure
  - 3.2.2 General Ledger Accounts
  - 3.2.3 Chart of Accounts
  - 3.2.4 Financial Statements
- 3.3 General Ledger Posting Documents
  - 3.3.1 Journal Document Entry
  - 3.3.2 Post, Park, and Hold
  - 3.3.3 Recurring Documents
  - 3.3.4 Post with References
  - 3.3.5 Post with Clearing
  - 3.3.6 Parallel Accounting
  - 3.3.7 Universal Parallel Accounting
- 3.4 Resetting and Reversing Documents
  - 3.4.1 Reversing Nonclearing Documents
  - 3.4.2 Reversing Clearing Documents
- 3.5 Bank Accounting
  - 3.5.1 Bank Master Data
  - 3.5.2 General Ledger Integration
  - 3.5.3 Bank Reconciliation
- 3.6 General Ledger Period-End Closing
  - 3.6.1 Opening and Closing Periods
  - 3.6.2 Subledger Reconciliation
  - 3.6.3 Foreign Currency Valuation
  - 3.6.4 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Clearing
  - 3.6.5 Balance Carryforward
  - 3.6.6 Financial Closing Cockpit
- 3.7 General Ledger Reporting
  - 3.7.1 Accounts Inquiry
  - 3.7.2 Trial Balance
  - 3.7.3 Display General Ledger Account Line Items
  - 3.7.4 Financial Statement
  - 3.7.5 Compact Document Journal
- 3.8 Summary
4 Accounts Payable
- 4.1 Purchase-to-Pay
  - 4.1.1 Purchase Requisition
  - 4.1.2 Purchase Order
  - 4.1.3 Goods Receipt
  - 4.1.4 Invoice Receipt
  - 4.1.5 Invoice Payment and Vendor Checking Balances
- 4.2 Vendor Accounts
  - 4.2.1 Vendor General Data
  - 4.2.2 Vendor Company Code Data
- 4.3 Vendor Invoices
  - 4.3.1 Automatic Creation of Vendor Invoices (from Logistics)
  - 4.3.2 Direct Invoices
- 4.4 Outgoing Payments
  - 4.4.1 Manual Payment
  - 4.4.2 Automatic Payment Program
- 4.5 Process Exceptions
  - 4.5.1 Credit Memos
  - 4.5.2 Down Payments Sent
- 4.6 Accounts Payable Period-End Closing
  - 4.6.1 Opening and Closing Periods
  - 4.6.2 Foreign Currency Valuation
  - 4.6.3 Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Clearing
  - 4.6.4 Automatic Open Item Clearing
  - 4.6.5 Reclassification Run
  - 4.6.6 Accounts Payable Reconciliations
- 4.7 Accounts Payable Reporting
  - 4.7.1 Accounts Inquiry
  - 4.7.2 Accounts Balance Report
  - 4.7.3 Open Item List
- 4.8 Summary
5 Accounts Receivable
- 5.1 Order-to-Cash Process
  - 5.1.1 Sales Order
  - 5.1.2 Outbound Delivery
  - 5.1.3 Billing Documents
- 5.2 Customer Accounts
  - 5.2.1 Customer General Data
  - 5.2.2 Customer Company Code Data
- 5.3 Customer Invoices
  - 5.3.1 Automatic Creation of Customer Invoice (from Logistics)
  - 5.3.2 Direct Customer Invoices
- 5.4 Customer Payments
  - 5.4.1 Manual Bank Statements
  - 5.4.2 Electronic Bank Statements
- 5.5 Process Exceptions
  - 5.5.1 Credit Memos
  - 5.5.2 Down Payments Received
- 5.6 Dunning
  - 5.6.1 Automated Dunning Process
  - 5.6.2 Manual Dunning Letters
- 5.7 Credit Management
  - 5.7.1 Credit Master Data and Credit Limits
  - 5.7.2 Simple Credit Check
  - 5.7.3 Automated Credit Check
- 5.8 Accounts Receivable Period-End Closing
  - 5.8.1 Foreign Currency Valuation
  - 5.8.2 Billing Due Lists
  - 5.8.3 Reclassification Run
  - 5.8.4 Accounts Receivable Reconciliations
- 5.9 Accounts Receivable Reporting
  - 5.9.1 Accounts Inquiry
  - 5.9.2 Account Balances Report
  - 5.9.3 Open Items List
  - 5.9.4 Aging List
- 5.10 Summary
6 Fixed Asset Accounting
- 6.1 Acquire-to-Retire Process
  - 6.1.1 Acquisition of Long-Lived Assets
  - 6.1.2 Capitalization/Activation
  - 6.1.3 Depreciation
  - 6.1.4 Retirement/Scrapping
- 6.2 Fixed Asset Accounts and Master Data
  - 6.2.1 Asset Creation
  - 6.2.2 Asset Classes
  - 6.2.3 Account Determination
  - 6.2.4 Depreciation Key
  - 6.2.5 Depreciation Area
  - 6.2.6 Chart of Depreciation and Ledger Assignment
- 6.3 Fixed Asset Explorer
  - 6.3.1 Planning
  - 6.3.2 Actuals
  - 6.3.3 Master Data
- 6.4 Asset Transactions
  - 6.4.1 Acquisition/Integration to Vendor Invoice
  - 6.4.2 Standard Depreciation
  - 6.4.3 Impairment (Value Adjustment)
  - 6.4.4 Transfers
  - 6.4.5 Retirements/Disposals
- 6.5 Fixed Assets Period-End Closing
  - 6.5.1 Change Fiscal Year
  - 6.5.2 Depreciation Run
  - 6.5.3 Closing Periods
  - 6.5.4 Fixed Assets Reconciliations
- 6.6 Fixed Assets Reporting
  - 6.6.1 Fixed Assets History Sheet
  - 6.6.2 Acquisitions List
  - 6.6.3 Depreciation Lists
  - 6.6.4 Disposals
- 6.7 Summary
7 Customer Project Accounting and Event-Based Revenue Recognition
- 7.1 Customer Project Scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  - 7.1.1 Financial Accounting Innovations
  - 7.1.2 Simplified Customer Project Contract Setup
  - 7.1.3 Customer Project Setup Overview
  - 7.1.4 Customer Project Business Transactions
  - 7.1.5 Customer Project Period-End Close
  - 7.1.6 Fixed-Price and Periodic Service Contracts
  - 7.1.7 Financial Reporting Insights
- 7.2 Event-Based Revenue Recognition
  - 7.2.1 Principles of Event-Based Revenue Recognition
  - 7.2.2 Event-Based Revenue Recognition for Customer Projects
  - 7.2.3 IFRS 15 Capabilities
  - 7.2.4 Supported Management Accounting Features
  - 7.2.5 Revenue Recognition Apps
  - 7.2.6 Supported Business Scenarios
  - 7.2.7 Activation and Configuration
  - 7.2.8 Positioning and Availability in SAP S/4HANA
- 7.3 Simplified Period-End Close
- 7.4 Summary
The Authors
Index

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