SAP S/4HANA Finance - 1909 Training

Lecture 1: Journey to SAP S/4HANA with the Activate Methodology

·        Introducing SAP S/4HANA

·        Outlining the Conversion Journey

Lecture 2: Preparation for Migration to SAP S/4HANA

·        Explaining the Migration Process

·        Analysing the Migration process per system starting point

·        Preparing for Migration to SAP S/4HANA

·        Preparing for Business Partner Adoption

·        Describing the SAP S/4HANA Installation Phase

Lecture 3: Customizing Financials in SAP S/4HANA

·        Configuring General Ledger Accounting

·        Configuring new Asset Accounting

·        Migrating to new Asset Accounting

·        Customizing Controlling for Account Based CO-PA

·        Preparing for Migration Material Ledger

·        Preparing for Migration of House Bank Accounts

·        Preparing for Migration of Credit Management

Lecture 4: Migration to SAP S/4HANA

·        Migrating to the Universal Journal

·        Finalizing Migration and Post Processing Business Partner

·        Performing Post Migration Activities

Lecture 5: Additional Topics for Migration

• Explaining Business Downtime Reduction with Near Zero Downtime (NZDT)
• Explaining the Results of Migration
• Using new Asset Accounting

Lecture 6: Overview of Financials for SAP S/4HANA

• Explaining the Purpose and Functions of SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA
• Describing the new Architecture of Accounting
• Explaining the Purpose and Functions of SAP Fiori
• Outlining the Migration of Financials to SAP S/4HANA

Lecture 7: General Ledger Accounting

• Create and maintain general ledger accounts
• Exchange rates
• Bank master data and define house banks
• Create and reverse general ledger transfer postings
• Post cross-company code transactions
• Create profit centres and segments
• Clear an account and define and use a chart of accounts
• Maintain tolerances, tax codes, and post documents with document splitting

Lecture 8: Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable

• Create and maintain business partners,
• Post invoices and payments and use special g/l transactions
• Reverse invoices and payments
• Block open invoices for payment
• Configure the payment program and manage partial payments
• Explain the connection of customers to vendors
• Describe integration with procurement and sales

Lecture 9: Asset Accounting

• Create and maintain charts of depreciation and the depreciation areas
• Asset classes, asset master data, and configure and perform FI-AA business processes in the SAP system
• Set up valuation and depreciation, perform periodic and year-end closing processes, and explain and configure parallel accounting

Lecture 10: Financial Closing

• Perform month and year-end closing in Financial Accounting (exchange rate valuation, post provisions etc.)
• Create balance sheet, create profit and loss statements
• Post accruals with accrual documents and recurring entry documents and manage posting periods

Lecture 11: Cost Center Accounting

·      Define, create and configure cost centers, cost center hierarchies and cost center groups.

·      Determine usage of Cost Center Accounting and type of planning functionality, cost center accounting activity types

Lecture 12: Product Cost Planning

·      Determine and configure product cost planning

·      Define interface from CO-PCP (Product Cost Planning) to CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) and costing versions for alternative costings

·      Determine cost elements structure, cost component structure, planning requirements, costing variants and multi-level costings

·      Carry out a Price update in the material master record

Lecture 13: Profitability Analysis

·      Define value fields, characteristics and summary characteristics

·      Determine planning, actual and process flow and security requirements

·      Design process flows and develop authorization concept for reporting of FI / CO data

·      Configure profitability analysis and determine the operating concern, and assignment to controlling area

·      Define currency and assign the chart of accounts, result analysis and revenue recognition (in cooperation with FI and SD)

·      Configure period-end closing for PA

Lecture 14: Profit Center Accounting

·      Create organizational charts for profit centres

·      Determine Profit Centers (in FI in the new GL)

·      Create Profit Centers and check master data assignments

·      Configure period-end closing for PCA

Lecture 15: Additional Topics (From 1709 to 1809)

• Overview System Preparation and Configuration for Conversion of Financials in SAP S/4HANA
• Architecture Overview of Financials in SAP S/4HANA and the Central Finance Solution
• Basics of Cash Management Powered by SAP HANA and SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA
• Migration Cockpit
• Activation of FIORI Apps
• Assignments and Mock tests (related to Certification)

Lecture 16: Delta from SAP S/4HANA 1809 to 1909

• Introduction to New FIORI apps
• Group reporting for intercompany postings and reconciliation
• Business planning based on cloud analytics