Step by Step Procedures for Daily Use of SAP FI

This manual provides instructions with screenshots for using the live operations phase of the SAP FI module application. You can use this manual as a guide for performing day-to-day and monthly procedures for the following submodules of Finance module in SAP.

  • General Ledger (FI-GL)
  • Accounts Payable (FI-AP)
  • Accounts Receivable (FI-AR)
  • Bank Accounting (FI-BL)
  • Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

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Beginner’s Manual to Product Costing in SAP

This document hepls users to understand the product costing functionality in SAP along with the corresponding configuration settings.

  • Product Cost Planning
    • Controlling Area and Version settings
    • Cost Component Structure overview
    • Master data for product costing (materials, BoM, Recipe etc.)
    • Costing variants / Valuation variant /Transfer Control concepts
    • Costing type, Costing version, Marking allowance
    • Costing sheets for overheads
    • Cost center planning and activity rates
    • Joint production, co-products, by-products
    • Costing of materials sourced from other plants
  • Cost Object Controlling
    • Process Order Costing
    • Overheads Application
    • Period End: WIP/Variances/Settlement
    • FI Entries for Process Order Steps and PE Closing
    • Actual Activity Price Calculation and Cost Center absorption

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SAP Configuration Guide for Functional Modules (Based on IDES)

This document is a pure SAP configuration guide that will focus on Financials (FI), Material Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Warehouse Management (WM) modules. Content of the documents is as follows:

  • Set up Organization Structure – Basic
  • Set up Financial Accounting and Controlling Data – Basic
  • Set up Financial Accounting – General Ledger
  • Set up Plant and Storage Locations
  • Set up Material Management – Basic
  • Set up Sales and Distribution Organization Structure – Basic
  • Set up Sales and Distribution Organization Structure – Plant
  • Set up Vendor Master Data
  • Set up Customer Master Data
  • Set up Pricing Data
  • Set up Material Master
  • Receipt – PO with one line
  • Receipt – PO with two lines
  • Set up Sales and Distribution
  • Sales
  • Billing

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SAP FI End User Guide Set

In this post you will find reference guides to sub-modules of SAP Finance module with step by step instructions even for novice users. The contents of the documents are as following:

  • Accounts Payable Overview: Explain how SAP FI Accounts Payable functions and invoice processing in general
  • Accounts Payable Process: Teach end users how to enter Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments and perform all other Accounts Payable (A/P) activities
  • Accounts Receivable Overview: Explain the key changes that will take place in the Accounts Receivable process
  • Accounts Receivable Process: explain the steps involved in Customer Invoice Processing (AR), Incoming Payment Processing, Collections and Write-offs
  • General Ledger Process: explain the General Ledger process and how other areas interact with the General Ledger process
  • Asset Accounting Overview: defines the high-level process, roles within the process and the interactions between the Asset Accounting process and other business areas within SAP
  • Asset Accounting Process: explains how to maintain an asset under construction, how to execute the asset capitalization process for assets under construction, standalone assets, and finance leases. It details how to complete a depreciation run; the transaction to impair an asset; the transaction to retire an asset by donation, scrapping, and sale; and the transaction to transfer an asset and mass transfer multiple assets.

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SAP FI Certification Preparation Notes (Summary of TFIN50-TFIN52 Series)

Prepared from an academy’s training sessions, these notes are a comprehensive starting point for someone preparing for the SAP FI Certification (C_TFIN52_64). Notes consists of three seperate document of SAP Academy Books TFIN50-1, TFIN50-2 and TFIN52. Each are well documented, up-to-date and summarized clearly. A must for participants!

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