SAP® Certified Application Associate — Financial Accounting

This six-day course is 78% faster than traditional SAP® training.

The SAP® Certified Application Associate – Business Intelligence course will help you improve your SAP® Financial Accounting skills. You will take the official SAP® exam, and gain the SAP® Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting certification.

This will prove your understanding of SAP® ERP Financial Accounting. And you will become a SAP® Certified Application Associate, which demonstrates that you have the necessary skills for roles such as: SAP® Financial Accounting consultant, project team member, analyst or trainer.

This course includes the configuration and use of organisational units, master data and documents for Financial Accounting.

Note: SAP® is a registered trademark of SAP® AG. Firebrand Training Limited is not affiliated or related to any division or subsidiary of SAP® AG

SAP® Overview

• SAP® Navigation

Financial Accounting Master Data

• Account groups
• Bank accounts/bank keys
• Chart of accounts
• Customer and vendor accounts
• G/L account
• Reconciliation accounts

Document and Posting Control

• Cash discount and payment conditions
• Cash journal
• Clearing (manual and automatic)
• Cross-company code transactions
• Default values
• Document changes, change control
• Document reversal
• Document types and number ranges
• Foreign currencies and exchange rate differences
• Incoming and outgoing payments
• Payment differences
• Posting authorizations
• Posting keys and field status groups
• Posting periods
• Taxes
• Tolerance groups and payment differences

Payment Program, Dunning Program, Correspondence, Interest Calculation

• Correspondence configuration
• Creating correspondence
• Creating payment media
• Dunning program configuration
• Executing the dunning run and printing the dunning notice
• Executing the interest calculation run
• Executing the payment run
• Interest calculation configuration
• Payment program configuration

Closing Operations in Financial Accounting

• Balance sheet/P&L structure & reporting
• Month-end and year-end closing Profit and loss
• Receivables and payables
• Technical, organizational and documentary steps

Evaluation Options in Reporting

• Drilldown reporting in Financial Accounting
• Infosystem and ABAP reports in General Ledger, accounts receivable
• List Viewer

Special General Ledger Transactions, Document Parking, Substitute

• Overview of the SAP® Solution Manager
• Basics of document parking
• Customizing of different special G/L transactions
• Processing parked documents
• Special G/L classes and types
• Special G/L transactions using the example of payment and guarantee
• Substitution
• Validation

The New General Ledger

• Activation and the idea of the New General Ledger
• Document splitting
• New characteristics in FI
• Real-time integration CO => FI
• Reporting with (new) FI standard
• Drilldown reporting
• Scenarios and scenario assignment

Asset Accounting

• Asset transactions (for example, asset acquisition, retirement)
• Master data
• Organizational structures
• Periodic processing in Asset Accounting
• Using the information system

You'll sit the following exam:

• SAP® Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP® ERP 6.0 EHP4 (Code: C_TFIN52_64)

Included:

• SAP® course material
• Official SAP® Press book: "SAP® ERP Financials: Configuration and Design (2nd Edition)"

The following are beneficial, though not necessary:

• Experience of working with, or implementing, a SAP® FI/Financial Accounting system or other enterprise financial accounting system
• Understanding of financial accounting and the basic principles involved such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable
• Understanding of the business processes involved in financial accounting
• Familiarisation with financial period close processes
• Familiarisation with asset accounting principles
• Familiarisation with financial reporting processes