SAP FICO Course Curriculum:

Introduction to SAP R/3

• Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages
• Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO
• introduction to G/L (NEW G/L), A/R, A/P, AA.
• Introduction to Banking and Treasury Management
• introduction to CEA, CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PA and PC

Financial Accounting Basic Settings

• Set Countries and Currencies.
• Create Calendar
• Creation and assignment of company and company code
• Creation of business area`
• Creating Leading, Non- Leading and Rep Ledger.
• Defining and assignment of fiscal year variant
• Defining and assignment of posting period variant
• Defining open and closing posting periods
• Defining document type & number ranges
• Define Posting Keys.
• Maintenance and assignment of field status variants
• Defining and assignment of tolerance groups of employees
• Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)
• Creation of chart of Accounts
• Defining Accounts Groups
• Defining Retained Earnings Account.
• Defining tolerance groups for G/I accounts

General Ledger Accounting

• Creation of General Ledger Master (with and without reference)
• LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench. (Idoc, Batch input, Bapi)
• BDC -Batch Data Communication.
• Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
• Creation of Account assignment model and posting
• Defining Recurring entry document, Run Schedule, Run Dates and posting
• Creation of Sample Document and posting
• Validations and Substitutions
• Cross Company Codes.
• Parallel Currencies (Various Methods)
• Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation ratios
• Define Exchange rates &  posting of foreign currency transactions
• Interest Configuration (Balance Interest).
• Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items.
• Create Screen Layouts.

Testing

• Document Entry posting normal postings posting with reference
• Display and change of documents.
• Display of GL balances and Line items
• Parked documents & hold documents
• Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal , reversal of cleared items and reversal of accrual and deferral documents.

Bank Configuration

• Lockbox Principles
• Lockbox
• Substitutions for Cash Journal.
• Validations For Cash Journal.
• Cash Journal.
• Bank account interest calculation
• House Bank .
• Bank Reconciliation Statements.
• Automatic Bank Reconciliation.
• Manual Bank Reconciliation.

Check Management

• Individual check payment.
• Manual check payment.
• Check registrar.
• Check encashment

Loan Management

• Individual check payment.
• Manual check payment.
• Check registrar.

Accounts receivable

• Creation of customer account groups and assignment of number ranges
• LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench. (Idoc, Batch input, Bapi, )
• Creation of tolerance group for customers
• Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
• Item Interest Configuration.
• Down Payment Receive.
• Bills Receivable. (In depth).
• Customer Terms.
• Customer Discounts (In depth).
• Reserve for Bad-debts.
• Risk Management (In depth)
• Credit Control Area (In depth).
• Fund Management (In depth).
• Configuration of settings for Dunning.
• Automatic Clearing.

User Exits

• Functional
• Field
• Screen

Reserve For Bad debts (RBD)

• Basic Settings
• Master Data.

Accounts Payable

• Creation of vendor account groups and assignment of number ranges
• LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench.
• Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
• Creation of tolerance group for venders
• Item Interest Configuration.
• Down Payment paid.
• Bills payable. (In depth).
• Terms of Payment.
• Vendor Discounts (In depth).
• Creation of house banks and account ids.
• Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
• Configuration of Automatic payment program
• Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts.
• Automatic Clearing.

Taxes

• Input Tax.
• Output Tax.
• Excise Tax.
• Withholding Tax.
• Global Taxes.

Testing

• Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo).
• Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment).
• Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts.
• Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo).
• Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions).
• Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment.
• Payment to vendors through APP.
• Asset under Construction..

Data Migration

• LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench.
• BDC – Batch Data Communication.
• ALE – Application Link Enabling.
• EDI – Electronic Data Interchange
• IDOCS – Intermediate Document

Asset Accounting

• Defining chart of depreciation
• Defining account determination, screen layout, number ranges and asset classes.
• Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules.
• Creation of asset master and sub asset master (change/display/block/unblock).
• Defining Depreciation key (base, declining, multilevel, period control methods).
• Acquisition or purchase of assets, sale of assets.
• Scrapping of assets, Transfer of assets.
• Post Capitalization and write up.
• Depreciation run.
• Line Settle of assets under construction of capital work in progress.

Testing

• Asset Purchase Posting.
• Sale of Asset.
• Transfer of Asset.
• Scrapping of Asset.

Cross- Company Code Transactions

• Cross company codes transactions in G/L.
• Cross company codes transactions in A/R.
• Cross company codes transactions in A/P.
• Cross company codes transactions in ASSET ACCOUNTING.
• Cancellation cross company codes transactions .

Integration with MM

• Movement types.
• Valuation class.
• Valuation area.
• Process key.
• Valuation grouping.
• Material types.
• Define plant.
• Define division.
• Maintain storage location.
• Maintain purchasing organization.
• Assign plant to company code.
• Assign business area to plant/valuation area and division.
• Assign purchasing organization to company code.
• Creation of material group.
• Maintain company code for material management.
• Define attributes of material types.
• Set tolerance group for purchase orders.
• Set tolerance limits group for goods receipt.
• Plant parameters.
• Maintain default values for tax codes.
• Set tolerance limits for goods receipt.
• Plant parameters.
• Maintain default values for tax codes.
• Set tolerance limits for invoice verification.
• Define automatic status change.
• Group together valuation areas.
• Configure automatic posting.
• Document type & number ranges.
• Material  master creation.
• To open material periods.

Testing

• Purchase order creation.
• Goods receipts.
• Invoices verification.
• Goods issue for consumption.
• Display material ledger.
• Display material document.

Integration with SD

• Define sales organization.
• Define distribution channel.
• Define shipping point.
• Assign sales organization to company code.
• Assign distribution channel to sales organization.
• Assign division to sales organization.
• Setup sales area.
• Assign sales organization distribution channel plant.
• Define rules by sales area.
• Assign shipping point to plant.
• Define pricing procedure determination.
• Define tax determination  rules.
• Assignment of accounts for automatic postings.
• Setup partner determination.
• Assign shipping points.
• Creation of condition types.

Testing

• Sales order creation.
• Delivery.
• Billing document.

Screen Variants

Transport Request’s

User Creation

• create users.
• role Authorizations.
• Assign Tolerance to Users.
• Create and Assign Validations to Users.
• Create and Assign Substitutions to Users.

FI/ SD Credit Management

• Define credit controlling areas.
• Decentralized credit management.
• Central credit management.
• Credit controlling are currency central organization.
• Assigning credit controlling are company codes.
• Assigning customer credit controlling.
• Creating credit data.
• Resetting credit limit.
• Postings without credit limit checks.
• Automatic credit control .

Integration with HR

• Define symbolic accounts.
• Defining wages types.
• Mapping wages types to symbolic Accounts .
• Mapping symbolic accounts to G/L Accounts.
• Payroll posting with amount changes.
• Reverse posting.
• Check completeness.
• Utilizing the payment program.

Cutover Activities

• Inventory Takeover.
• Receivable Takeover.
• Payable Takeover.
• Asset Takeover.
• Other GL Takeover.

Final Preparation

• Define Financial Statement Version.
• Balance carry forward Balances.
• month ending Activities.
• Structure of Account Balances.
• FI- CO Tables.

Reports

• Financial statement version.
• General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Assets Reports.

CONTROLLING:

Basic settings for controlling

• Maintain Controlling Area.
• Activate control indicators/ components.
• Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area.
• Maintain Planning Versions.

Cost Element Accounting

• Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Creation of Cost Element Groups.
• primary cost element categories and  secondary cost element categories .

Cost Center Accounting

• Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy.
• Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups.
• Planning for cost center, posting to cost centers.
• Repost of Costs.
• Overhead Calculation.
• Creation and Execution of Distribution Cycle.
• creation and execution of assessment cycles.
• cost center reports.

Internal Orders

• Statistical Internal Order.
• Real Internal Order.
• Defining order types.
• Creation of internal orders.
• Planning of internal orders.
• Postings to internal order.
• Report of Variance analysis

Profit Center Accounting

• Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting.
• Creation of Dummy Profit Centers.
• Maintaining versions for profit centers.
• Creation of profit centers and profit center groups.
• Creation of revenue cost elements.
• Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers.
• Postings to profit centers, planning and variance reporting.

Fund Management

Grant’s management

Commitment Management

• Budgetary Control.
• Cash Flow.
• Direct Method.
• Indirect Method

Product Costing

• Define Cost Sheet.
• Define cost component structure.
• Define MRP controller.
• Define production controller.
• Create bill of material.
• Creation of work centre.
• Creation of routing.
• Creation of cost estimate with quality structure.

Profitability Analysis

• Defining the operating concern.
• Define profitability segment characteristics.
• Activating the profitability analysis.
• Creation of data structures.
• Follow of actual values.
• Creation of reports.
• Execution of reports.
• Define forms.

Real Time Concepts:

• SAP Methodology.
• LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench.
• (Batch Input, IDOC, BAPI)
• Data Migration, LSMW, BDC,ALE/EDI and IDOCS.
• BDC -Backup Domain Controller.
• Controlling (In depth).
• SAP Query.
• Transport Request Creation and Release.
• Tickets.
• FAQS.