SAP FICO Training
SAP FICO stands for SAP Finance and Controlling and is one of the most important SAP modules that covers two major aspects viz. SAP FI & SAP CO. SAP financial accounting (SAP FI) is used to analyze the financial market condition of any organization while SAP Controlling (SAP CO) is helpful in monitoring, coordination, and optimization of all the processes which is necessary for the organization's growth.
SAP FICO is a core functional component in SAP ERP Central Component that allows an organization to manage all its financial data. SAP FICO is based on pure accounting principles that facilitate core accounting and reporting capabilities and ensures most up-to-date balances as well as reporting accuracy through complete integration between General Ledger (GL). Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), and Asset Accounts (AA). FICO provides flexible configuration as per country specific standards of Reporting, Tax, and Depreciation. SAP FICO module includes SAP FICO configuration, SAP CO configuration, SAP FI user and SAP CO user.
SAP FI is used for external reporting purpose, for example, making Balance Sheet, Profit, and Loss statement. The objective is to record all financial transactions that are posted by an entity and produce financial statements which are accurate at the end of the trading period. It is used to store the financial data of an organization and also helps to analyse the financial conditions of a company in the market. SAP FI is made up of sub-modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting. SAP FI module integrates with other SAP Modules like SAP SD, SAP PP, SAP MM, SAP SCM, etc. In summary, SAP FI monitors the company financials.
SAP CO delivers cost accounting and is used for internal reporting purpose. SAP CO includes managing and configuring master data that covers cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal orders, real order, product costing, profitability analysis. It helps organizations in planning, reporting and monitoring business operations. SAP CO supports coordination, monitoring, and optimization of all the process in the organization.
Functionally, both FI and CO modules store the financial related transactions/information. FI and CO modules are firmly integrated with other ERP modules such as Sales and Distribution (SD), Material Management, Human Resources Management, and so on.
SAP FICO Training is in high demand in the market because SAP FICO is the most critical component of SAP ERP suite and covers all necessary components of Finance, Accounting and Controlling part of any organization which is necessary for growth.
Uplatz, the biggest IT training provider in Europe, provides this end-to-end SAP FICO training course to help you understand the core concepts of SAP FICO module. This instructor-led online SAP FICO course covers all aspects of SAP FI and CO and guides you step-by-step on various configurations and implementation steps of the SAP FICO module.
Uplatz is one of the most renowned online training providers across the globe offering SAP FICO training to be provided by highly experienced SAP Certified trainers.
Uplatz's SAP FICO Training program will help to learn and understand the entire SAP FICO Course theoretically and practically so that every student can easily qualify the SAP FICO certification Exams and gain deep knowledge of SAP FICO module to increase the chances of getting a high-paying job.
Taking up a SAP FICO certification is the first step towards beginning a career as a SAP FICO consultant. The different parts of the SAP FI and SAP CO modules are essential to build the skill sets of a SAP FICO consultant or professional. After completion of this SAP FICO course, the students can perfectly configure SAP FI & CO modules in organizations of any size.
This comprehensive SAP FICO training with focus on imparting necessary skills to help you become a successful FICO consultant or power user. This training and certification program will also help you switch to a high-paying job. SAP FICO transactions and exercises are intended for both the beginners and the experts, with the goal that they can learn to execute and configure the SAP FI/CO ERP modules. Our hands-on instructor-led SAP FICO Training will prepare you for the SAP job market and as well as equip you with all the necessary training/assistance that is needed or required for you to pass the SAP FI/CO certification examination.
As part of this training, you will also learn SAP Fiori to work with real-time analytics, prediction, and simulation for all financial and operational data through hands-on projects. Master SAP FICO through this SAP FICO course.
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Course Objectives
By the end of this SAP FICO Certification training, you will be able to learn and apply:
· Concepts and fundamentals of SAP Finance and Controlling modules
· Configuration and Implementation for SAP FICO module
· Requirements gathering for the Business Record to Report process cycle
· SAP Business analysis to improve financial activities
· General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting and Funds Management and its application in finance analysis
· SAP FICO business processes and how FICO Module works in R/3 and S/4HANA
· Integrate SAP FICO with other SAP modules
· End to End Implementation Process
· Prepare for SAP FICO certification and job interviews
· Be able to work as both SAP End-User and Consultant
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Who this course is for
· Anyone who wants to learn SAP FICO configuration and implementation
· SAP Users who want to extend their knowledge to configure SAP FICO
· Other ERP Consultants who want to learn SAP FICO configuration and implementation
· Analytics professionals, professionals desirous of excelling in the fields of accounting and finance
· Financial Analysts & Reporting Professionals
· Project Managers
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SAP FICO Training
Introduction:
• Introduction to ERP
• Introduction to SAP
Part 1: Enterprise Structure:
Definition of company
Definition of company code
Assignment of company to company code
Definition of business area
Part 2: Financial Accounting Basic Settings
Definition of fiscal year variant
Assignment of fiscal year variant to company code
Definition of posting period variant
Assignment of posting period variant to company code
Open and close posting period
Maintenance of field status variants
Assignment of field status variant to company code
Creation of chart of Accounts
Defining Accounts Groups
Defining Retained Earnings Account
Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts
Definition of tolerance groups for employees
Assignment of tolerance groups to users
Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)
Defining document type & number ranges
PART 3: General Ledger Accounting
Creation of General Ledger Master (with and without reference)
Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference
Display and change of documents
Display of GL balances
Display GL account line items
Parked documents
Hold documents
Creation of Sample Document postings with sample documents
Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal and reversal of reversed document
Month End Provisions –
Open item Management – Full clearing, Partial Clearing and Residual Clearing
Accrual and Deferral documents
Interest calculations on term loans
PART 4: Accounts Payable
Creation of vendor account groups
Creation of number ranges for vendor master records
Assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups
Creation of tolerance group for vendors
Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vendor master)
Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)
Display Vendor balances and G/L Balances
Configuration Settings for advance payments to Vendors (down payment)
Clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions)
Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment
Creation of payment terms,
Creation of house banks and account ids.
Creation of check lots and Creation of void reasons
Maintenance of check register
Display check register
Cancellation of unissued checks
Cancellation of issued checks
posting of purchase returns.
BRS
Configuration of automatic payment program
Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts
PART 5: Accounts receivable
Creation of customer account groups
Creation of number ranges for customer master records
Assignment of number ranges for customer account groups
Creation of tolerance group for customers
Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)
Display customer balances and G/L Balances
Configuration Settings for advance payment from customers (down payment)
Configuration settings for terms of payment to customers
Configuration of settings for dunning
Generating the dunning letters
Defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
Bills of exchange
Posting of sales returns
When the vendor and customer both are same
A. without terms of payment
B. with common terms of payment.
PART 6: Asset Accounting:
Copy reference chart of depreciation
Assignment of chart of depreciation to company code
Creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchases
Defining account determination
Definition of screen lay out rules
Definition of number ranges for asset master
Creation of asset classes
Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
Defining Depreciation key
Definition of multilevel methods
Definition of period control methods
Creation of main asset master records
Creation of sub asset master records
posting the transactions for Acquisition of fixed assets
Depreciation run and Asset explorer
Sale of fixed assets – with customer and without customer
Transfer of assets
Impairment of assets
Scrapping of assets,
Line item Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress
PART 7: CONTROLLING
Basic settings for controlling
Defining Controlling Area
Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
Maintain Planning Versions
Cost element accounting
Creation of primary cost elements from financial accounting area
Creation of primary cost elements from controlling area
Display of cost element master records
Change cost element master records
Primary cost element categories
Secondary cost element categories
Cost Center accounting
Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups
Display cost center master records
Change cost center master records
Creation of cost center groups
Posting to cost centers
Reposting of co line items
Repost of Costs
Planning for cost centers
Cost center reports
Internal orders
Define field status group for statistical orders
Creation of Primary cost element
Creation of internal order master records for statistical orders
Display internal order master records
Change internal order master records
Postings to internal orders
Planning for internal orders
Report of Variance analysis for internal orders
Real orders
Creation of real internal orders
Posting of business transaction to real orders
Definition of allocation structures
Definition of settlement profiles
Definition of planning profiles
Define number ranges for Settlement documents of real internal orders
Define number ranges for controlling documents.
Budgeting and availability control
Maintain number ranges for budgeting
Define tolerances for availability control
Specification of exempt cost elements from availability control
Maintenance of budget manager
Profit Center accounting
Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting
Creation of Dummy Profit Centers
Maintenance of control parameters for actual postings
Maintaining planning versions for profit centers
Maintaining the number ranges for profit center documents
Creation of profit center master records
Display of profit center master records
Changing the profit center master records
Assign profit center to cost center for expenditure posting
Creation of revenue cost elements
Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
Assignment of profit centers in cost center master records
Creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
Planning for profit and loss account items
Posting of transactions into profit centres
Generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items
PART 9: INTEGRATION
Integration of financial accounting with materials management:
Integration of financial accounting with sales and distribution:
Profitability analysis:
Maintaining the operating concern
Define profitability segment characteristics
Assignment of controlling area to operating concern
Activating the profitability analysis
Define number ranges for actual postings
Mapping of SD conditions types to COPA value fields
Creation of reports
Viewing the reports
Part 10: TAXATION AS PER THE COUNTRY REQUIREMENT
Define Tax procedure
Assign tax procedure to the country
Define condition types
Define tax keys
Assign the condition types and tax keys to the tax procedure.
Define tax codes
Creation of G/L Accounts for taxation
Posting of vendor and customer transactions with taxes.
PART 11
Foreign currency transactions
New general ledger
PART 12
Reports
Financial statement version
General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Assets Reports
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Every SAP module has two levels of examination:
1. Associate (Fresher)
Exam Duration: 180 Minutes
Total Questions: 80
Types of Questions: MCQs, multiple response matching questions and answers
2. Professional (Experienced)
Exam Duration: 180 Minutes
Total Questions: 80
Types of Questions: MCQs, multiple response, scenario based and matching questions and answers
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After successful completion of SAP FICO Training & Certification the students can easily explore the following career and job opportunities:
1. SAP FICO Consultant
2. SAP FICO Executive
3. SAP FICO Analyst
4. Finance & Account Executive
5. SAP FICO Financial Modeller
6. SAP FICO Manager
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The average salary ranges from approx. £62,863 per year for SAP FICO Consultant to £156,472 per year for SAP FICO Lead/Manager.
There are currently 51,000+ open SAP FICO jobs in UK ranging from FICO end-users to consultants to managers.
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SAP FICO Training Interview Questions
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1) Explain the term SAP FICO?
2) What are the other modules to which 'Financial Accounting' is integrated?
3) In SAP FI what are the organizational elements?
4) Explain what is posting key and what does it control?
5) What is the company code in SAP?
6) How many Chart of Accounts can company code have?
7) For a Company Code how many currencies can be configured?
8) What are the options in SAP for Fiscal years?
9) What is a 'year shift' in SAP calendar?
10) What is year dependent fiscal year variant?
11) In SAP how input and output taxes are taken care?
12) Explain what is validations and substitutions in SAP?
13) What are the application areas that use validation and substitutions?
14) In SAP what is the use of FSV ( Financial Statement Version) ?
15) What is a field status group?
16) What is FI-GL (Financial- General Ledger) Accounting does?
17) What is the default exchange rate type which is picked up for all SAP transactions?
18) What are the methods by which vendor invoice payments can be made?
19) What are the problems when business area is configured?
20) For document clearing what are the customizing prerequisites ?
21) What is the importance of GR/IR ( Good Received/ Invoice Received) clearing account?
22) What is parallel and local currency in SAP?
23) Where can you use the internal order?
24) Is it possible to calculate depreciation to the day?
25) In Asset Accounting what is the organizational assignments?
26) What is the importance of asset classes? What asset classes are there?
27) How capital WIP (Work In Process) and Assets accounted for in SAP?
28) What are the major components of Chart of Accounts?
29) What is credit control area in SAP?
30) How can you create Credit Control Area in SAP?
31) What is posting period variants?
33) What is short-end fiscal year?
34) What is an account group and where it is used?
35) What is the purpose of "Document type" in SAP?
36) Is business area at company code level?
37) In SAP, Customer and Vendor code are stored at what level?
38) How are tolerances for invoice verification defined?
39) What is a country Chart of Accounts?
40) What is APP in SAP Fico?
41) In SAP FICO what are the terms of payment and where are they stored?
42) What are one-time vendors?
43) What are the standard stages of the SAP payment run?
44) In Accounts Receivable, what is the difference between the 'Residual Payment' and 'Part Payment' methods of allocating cash?
45) What is "dunning" in SAP?
46) What is the purpose of the account type field in the GL (General Ledger) master record?
47) Explain what is recurring entries and why are they used?
48) What is a 'Value Field' in the CO-PA module?
49) What are the statistical internal orders?
50) For what purposes internal orders can be used?