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!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. 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.

b. 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.

c. 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.

Highlights include:

1) General ledger accounting
2) Accounts payable
3) Accounts receivable
4) Fixed assets
5) Customer projects
6) Event-based revenue recognition
7) Organizational structure
8) Period-end close
9) Reporting
10) SAP GUI transactions
11) SAP Fiori applications

Second edition, updated and revised

Auteur
Nertila Mucka is a senior IT auditor at ING, holding a master's degree in information technology and finance and accounting systems. She has six years of experience in reviewing accounting and ERP systems, especially finance and Basis components in SAP for compliance and security purposes. She is a co-teacher for SAP for certified accountants in Germany, and develops automated tools for reviewing settings for the SAP S/4HANA environment.

Contenu
· ... Foreword ... 13

· ... Preface ... 15

· ... Who This Book Is For ... 15

· ... How This Book Is Organized ... 15

· ... Acknowledgments ... 18

· ... Conclusion ... 18

· 1 ... Introduction to SAP S/4HANA ... 19

· 1.1 ... Deployment Models ... 19

· 1.2 ... Universal Journal ... 22

· 1.3 ... Simplifications and Innovations ... 27

· 1.4 ... User Interfaces ... 34

· 1.5 ... Summary ... 40

· 2 ... Organizational Structure and Integration ... 43

· 2.1 ... Standard Financial Accounting Processes ... 43

· 2.2 ... Organizational Elements of Financial Accounting ... 50

· 2.3 ... Integration of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting ... 71

· 2.4 ... Summary ... 86

· 3 ... General Ledger Accounting ... 89

· 3.1 ... Record-to-Report ... 89

· 3.2 ... General Ledger Master Data ... 97

· 3.3 ... General Ledger Posting Documents ... 109

· 3.4 ... Resetting and Reversing Documents ... 145

· 3.5 ... Bank Accounting ... 154

· 3.6 ... General Ledger Period-End Closing ... 167

· 3.7 ... General Ledger Reporting ... 189

· 3.8 ... Summary ... 203

· 4 ... Accounts Payable ... 205

· 4.1 ... Purchase-to-Pay ... 205

· 4.2 ... Vendor Accounts ... 222

· 4.3 ... Vendor Invoices ... 231

· 4.4 ... Outgoing Payments ... 239

· 4.5 ... Process Exceptions ... 255

· 4.6 ... Accounts Payable Period-End Closing ... 262

· 4.7 ... Accounts Payable Reporting ... 284

· 4.8 ... Summary ... 294

· 5 ... Accounts Receivable ... 297

· 5.1 ... Order-to-Cash Process ... 298

· 5.2 ... Customer Accounts ... 308

· 5.3 ... Customer Invoices ... 316

· 5.4 ... Customer Payments ... 322

· 5.5 ... Process Exceptions ... 330

· 5.6 ... Dunning ... 339

· 5.7 ... Credit Management ... 343

· 5.8 ... Accounts Receivable Period-End Closing ... 350

· 5.9 ... Accounts Receivable Reporting ... 374

· 5.10 ... Summary ... 387

· 6 ... Fixed Asset Accounting ... 389

· 6.1 ... Acquire-to-Retire Process ... 390

· 6.2 ... Fixed Asset Accounts and Master Data ... 394

· 6.3 ... Fixed Asset Explorer ... 414

· 6.4 ... Asset Transactions ... 422

· 6.5 ... Fixed Assets Period-End Closing ... 439

· 6.6 ... Fixed Assets Reporting ... 457

· 6.7 ... Summary ... 466

· 7 ... Customer Project Accounting and Event-Based Revenue Recognition ... 467

· 7.1 ... Customer Project Scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 468

· 7.2 ... Event-Based Revenue Recognition ... 503

· 7.3 ... Simplified Period-End Close ... 551

· 7.4 ... Summary ... 553

· ... The Authors ... 555

· ... Index ... 557