SAP – FICO Course Content

Overview :

SAP FICO refers to the Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO) is the Core modules of SAP ERP system.
SAP FI (Financial Accounting) is an important core module in SAP where in live time the financial processing transactions are captured. This is used to create statutory Financials Statements in which data is drawn for external reporting purposes.
SAP CO (Controlling) module is provides operational information to the management of a company to support business analysis and decision-making.

Training Objectives of FICO :

SAP FICO Module is used for those who are in the Finance and Accounting Professionals, who wish to delve into a creative and interactive scenario by which they can apply their Real Time experience and expertise to another level of fantastic intellectual stimulation.

Target Students / Prerequisites :

The primary Requirement for Students is must and should have any commerce degree. The Students WHO have worked within the book keeping and price accounting field are the proper candidates who will easily grasp the Subject. The Students must have the knowledge on essential data of domain, accounting, quality management and recording data.

1.0 Introduction :

  • ERP Concepts
  • Role of SAP Consultant
  • Why SAP is in demand?
  • Finance Overview: Transaction, Accounts and Accounting.

2.1 General Settings :

  • Define Company, Company Code, Credit Control Area, Business Area, Chart of Accounts and Fiscal Year. Assign Company Code to Company, Chart of Accounts and Fiscal Year, Create Tax Procedure and Attach to the Country

2.2 Posting Period :

  • Define Posting Period Variant
  • Assign Posting Period Variant to company code
  • Define Open and Close Posting periods

2.3 Document :

  • Define Document Types and Number Ranges

2.4 Account Group and Retained Earning Account :

  • Define Account Group and Retained Earning Account

2.5 Field Status Variant: :

 

  • Maintain Field Status Variant
  • Assign Field Status Variant to Company Code

2.6 Tolerance Group :

  • Tolerance Group for GL Accounts
  • Tolerance Group for Employees
  • Assigning Users to Tolerance Groups

2.7 Other Basic Steps :

  • Enable Fiscal Year Default
  • Enable Default Value Date
  • Check Company Code settings in Global parameters

2.8 Other topics in GL :

  • GL Master Creation
  • Journal Entry Posting

Blocking of an GL Account :

  • Unblocking of an GL Account
  • Changing of GL Master
  • Display Changes/What Changes/how it was done
  • Parking of an account
  • Releasing the parking document by changing the amount.
  • Releasing the parking document by deleting the document
  • Difference between Park and Hold documents
  • How to see an Account Balance

2.9 Reference Documents :

  • Sample document
  • Account Assignment Model
  • Recurring Entries

2.10 Reversal of Document :

  • Normal Reversal/Individual Reversal
  • Mass Reversal
  • Reversal of the Reversal

2.11 Open Item Management :

  • Full Clearing
  • Partial Clearing
  • Residual Clearing

3.0 Accounts Receivable(AR) :

  • Accounts Receivable(AR)

3.1 Settings in AR :

  • Account Group Creation
  • Field Status
  • No. Range Group and No. Ranges
  • Assigning No. Range Group to Account Group
  • Tolerance Group for Customers
  • GL Accounts and Customer Master Creations
  • Document Types and No. Ranges
  • Posting Keys
  • Invoice Posting
  • Incoming Payment
  • Clearing Open Items

3.2 Down Payment :

  • Down Payment
  • Establishment between Recon a/c and Alternative Recon a/c
  • Down Payment in Short-Cut Method

Customer Credit Memo :

  • Correspondence

4.0 Accounts Payable(AP) :

  • Accounts Payable(AP)

4.1 Settings in AP :

  • Account Group Creation
  • Field Status
  • No. Range Group and No. Ranges
  • Assigning No. Range Group to Account Group
  • Tolerance Group for Vendors
  • GL Accounts and Vendor Master Creations(Bank Accounts)
  • Document Types and No. Ranges
  • Posting Keys
  • Invoice Posting
  • Outgoing Payment
  • Clearing Open Items

4.2 Down Payment :

  • Down Payment
  • Establishment between Recon a/c and Alternative Recon a/c
  • Down Payment in Short-Cut Method

Vendor Credit Memo :

    Correspondence

5.0 Special and Important Topics :

  • Sales Tax
  • Clearing Outstanding between Customer and Vendor
  • Cash Discount
  • Integration between FI and MM
  • Integration between FI and SD
  • Financial Statement Version

6.0 Asset Accounting(AA) :

  • Chart of Depreciation
  • Account Determination
  • Screen Layout
  • Asset Master Creation
  • Asset Class
  • Depreciation Keys etc.
  • Acquisition of Asset
  • Asset Sale
  • Scrapping of an Asset
  • Transfer of Asset

7.0 Reports and Management Information System :

  • GL Reports
  • AR Reports
  • AP Reports
  • AA Reports
  • MIS

CONTROLLING :

  • Controlling Basic Settings
  • Defining Controlling Area
  • Assigning Controlling Area to Company Codes
  • Defining Number Ranges for Controlling Documents

8.0 Cost Element Accounting :

  • Creating Cost Element Groups
  • Manual Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements
  • Automatic Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements

9.0 Cost Center Accounting :

  • Creating Cost Center Hierarchy Key
  • Creating Cost Center Groups
  • Creating Cost Centers
  • Manual Repost Line Items
  • Automatic Reposting Line Items
  • Periodic Reposting
  • Creating Distribution Cycle

10.0 Internal Orders :

  • Creating Order Types
  • Creating Number Ranges
  • Creating Internal Orders

11.0 Profit Center Accounting :

  • Creating Profit Center Hierarchy
  • Creating Profit Center Groups
  • Creating Profit Centers
  • Creating Dummy Profit Center
  • Automatic Assignment of Balance Sheet A/c and P&L A/c to profit centers

13.0 Overview of Profitability Analysis :

  • Overview of Profitability Analysis

12.0 Overview of Product Costing :

  • Overview of Product Costing

Courses Duration : 3-4 weeks