What is SAP FICO?

SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) is an essential module of SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) that enables businesses to manage their financial data, processes, and reporting effectively. It integrates core accounting and financial processes with other business modules in SAP, providing real-time insights and streamlining financial operations.

Key Features of SAP FICO

1. Finance (FI):

• Purpose: Manages a company's financial accounting and reporting.
• Features:
  • General Ledger Accounting: Tracks all financial transactions.
  • Accounts Payable (AP): Manages vendor payments.
  • Accounts Receivable (AR): Handles customer billing and collections.
  • Asset Accounting: Tracks fixed asset transactions and depreciation.
  • Bank Accounting: Manages bank transactions and reconciliation.
  • Financial Statements: Generates reports like Balance Sheets and Profit & Loss Statements.

2. Controlling (CO):

• Purpose: Focuses on cost management and internal financial reporting.
• Features:
  • Cost Center Accounting: Monitors costs in different departments.
  • Profit Center Accounting: Analyzes profit by business areas.
  • Product Costing: Determines production costs and product pricing.
  • Internal Orders: Tracks costs for specific projects or tasks.
  • Profitability Analysis (PA): Evaluates profitability across various dimensions like regions or products.

Benefits of SAP FICO

• Real-Time Financial Insights: Provides up-to-date financial data for better decision-making.
• Integration: Links with other SAP modules like SAP MM (Materials Management), SAP SD (Sales and Distribution), and SAP PP (Production Planning).
• Regulatory Compliance: Supports adherence to local and global financial regulations.
• Customizable Solutions: Flexible configuration to meet industry-specific requirements.
• Global Scalability: Supports multiple currencies, languages, and tax laws for multinational organizations.

Lakshmana Swamy.K

Experience Summary

• 14+ years of expertise in Accounting, Finance, and Costing with proven skills in Financial and Business Analysis.
• 18+ years of extensive experience in SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA modules.
• A passionate and dedicated professional with a strong work ethic and a results-driven approach.
• 18+ years of training experience in SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA modules, catering to both corporate and individual learners.

Corporate Training Experience

• Conducted SAP FICO training for KTM, Dubai from February 9, 2017, to February 19, 2017.
• Delivered SAP FICO training to business users of GMG (Gulf Marketing Group), Dubai, from March 16, 2017, to April 2, 2017.

Online Training Experience

• 8+ years of providing online SAP FICO training to international students from UK, USA, and Tanzania via video conferencing platforms.
• Successfully trained:
  • 17 batches of students from the UK.
  • 150 batches of students from the USA.
  • 2 batches of students from Tanzania.
  • 400+ batches of students from India.

Introduction to SAP R/3

1. Introduction to ERP,  Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages
2. Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO

Financial Accounting Basic Settings:

1. Definition of  company
2. Definition  of company code
3. Assignment of company to company code
4. Definition of business area
5. Definition of fiscal year variant
6. Year dependent fiscal year
7. Year independent fiscal years
8. Short end fiscal years
9. Assignment of fiscal year variant to company code
10. Creation of chart of Accounts
11. Defining Accounts Groups
12. Defining Retained Earnings Account
13. Definition of posting period variant
14. Assignment of posting period variant to company code
15. Open and close posting period
16. Defining document type & number ranges
17. Maintenance  of field status variants
18. Assignment of field status variant to company code
19. Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts
20. Definition of tolerance groups for employees
21. Assignment of tolerance groups   to users
22. Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output).

General Ledger Accounting:

1. Creation of General Ledger Master (with and without reference)
2. Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
3. Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference
4. Display and change of documents
5. Display of GL balances
6. Display GL account line items
7. Parked documents (park, display, post, delete park documents)
8. Hold documents(hold, display, and post hold documents)
9. Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents
10. Defining recurring entry document and postings with recurring doc.
11. Creation of account assignment model and posting
12. Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items
13. Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal , reversal of cleared items and reversal of accrual and deferral documents
14. Defining Exchange Rate types
15. Definition of Translation ratios
16. Entering the rates in the foreign currency tables
17. posting of foreign currency transactions
18. Interest calculations on term loans(configuration and end user transactions)
19. Months end provisions (Accrual and Deferral  documents)
20. Documents and open item management
21. Clearing process for GL transactions (standard clearing, partial payments, and residual payment methods)
22. Group currency settings
23. Revaluation of foreign currency loan balances.

Accounts Payable

1. Creation of vendor account groups
2. creation of number ranges for vendor master records
3. assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for venders
5. Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
6. Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)
7. Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment
8. Creation of house banks and account ids.
9. Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
10. display check register
11. cancellation of un issued checks
12. creation of void reasons
13. cancellation of issued checks
14. Defining correspondence & party statement of account
15. Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions)
16. Advance payments other scenarios
17. Noted items
18. One time vendors
19. Configuration of automatic payment program
20. Payment to vendors through APP,
21. Creation of new and own payment terms
22. Configuration for cash discounts received
23. Creation of installment payment terms.
24. Vendor credit memo postings

Accounts receivable:

1. Creation of customer account groups
2. creation of number ranges for customer master records
3. assignment of number ranges  for customer account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for customers
5. Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
6. Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)
7. Settings for advance payment from customers (down payment and special GL transactions)
8. Advance payments other scenarios
9. Noted items
10. One time customers
11. Configuration of settings for dunning
12. Define dunning aras
13. Define dunning procedures
14. Assign dunning procedure in the customer masters
15. Execute dunning programs
16. generating the dunning letters
17. defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
18. Bills of exchange
19. posting of sales returns
20. Configuration for cash discount paid to customers.
21. Clearing of customer open items with the vendor open items and vice versa

Asset Accounting

1. Maintain country specific settings
2. Defining chart of depreciation
3. creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased
4. assignment of  chart of depreciation to company code
5. Defining account determination
6. definition of screen lay out rules
7. definition of number ranges for asset classes
8. Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
9. Defining Depreciation key
10. definition of multilevel methods
11. definition of period control methods
12. creation of main asset master records
13. creation of sub asset master records
14. Acquisition  of fixed assets
15. sale of fixed assets
16. transfer of assets
17. Scrapping of assets,
18. Depreciation run
19. Line item  Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress

New General ledger accounting:

1. 1. Parallel ledgers
   2. document splitting
   3. Segments.

Reports

1. Financial statement version
2. General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Assets Reports
3. Carry forward of  GL account balances
4. Carry forward of vendor account balances
5. Carry forward of customer account balances
6. Yearend closing activities in asset accounting.

CONTROLLING

Basic settings for controlling

1. Defining Controlling Area
2. Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
3. Maintain Planning Versions

Cost element accounting:

1. creation of primary cost elements from financial accounting area
2. creation of primary cost elements from controlling area
3. automatic creation of cost element master records at the time of implementation
4. automatic creation of cost elements after implementation
5. display of cost element master records
6. change cost element master records
7. creation of cost element groups
8. primary cost element categories
9. secondary cost element categories
10. default account assignments

Cost Center Accounting

1. Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
2. Creation of Cost Centers
3. display cost center master records
4. change cost center master records
5. creation of cost center groups
6.  posting to cost centers
7. reposting of co line items
8. Repost of Costs
9. planning for cost center
10. planning aids
11. cost planning with  revaluation
12. planning for cost centers – excel upload
13. variance reports for the cost centers
14. Overhead Calculation
15. creation of secondary cost element master records
16. Creation and execution of assessment cycles: plan and actual
17. Creation and Execution of Distribution Cycle: plan and actual
18. creation and execution periodic reposting cycles : plan and actual
19. cost center reports
20. period locks in the cost center accounting
21. online reconciliation ledger  or real time integration of controlling with financial accounting
22. accrual orders or imputed cost calculation
23. creation of statistical key figures
24. creation of statistical key figure groups
25. using the statistical key figures in assessments, distribution and periodic reposting of overheads
26. activity types
27. activity dependent  planning in cost center accounting
28. activity independent planning in cost center accounting
29. activity output planning
30. overhead calculation
31. activity cost calculation
32. activity price calculation
33. indirect activity allocation and methods
34. direct activity allocation and methods

Internal Orders

1. Defining order types
2. Creation of internal order master records
3. display internal order master records
4. change internal order master records
5. postings to internal orders
6. planning for internal orders
7. reposting co line items for internal orders
8. repost of costs for internal orders
9. Report of Variance analysis for internal orders
10. creation of real internal orders
11.  posting  of business transaction to real orders
12. definition of allocation structures
13. definition of settlement profiles
14. definition of planning profiles
15. settlement of real internal orders
16. budgeting and availability control
17. maintain number ranges for budgeting
18. define tolerances for availability control
19. specification of exempt cost elements fr4om availability control
20. maintenance of budget manager

Profit Center Accounting

1. Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting
2. Creation of Dummy Profit Centers
3. maintenance of control parameters for actual postings
4. Maintaining planning versions for profit centers
5. maintaining the number ranges for profit center documents
6. Creation of profit center master records
7. display of profit center master records
8. changing the profit center master records
9. Creation of revenue cost elements
10. Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
11. assignment of  profit centers in cost center master records
12. creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
13. planning for profit and loss account items
14. planning for balance sheet items
15. posting of transactions  into profit centers
16. generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items
17. Generating the variance reports for balance sheet items.

Profitability analysis

1. Maintain characteristics
2. Maintain value fields
3. Maintain operating concern
4. Assign controlling area to operating concern
5. Define number ranges for planning data
6. Maintain versions
7. setup planning frame work
8. Define number ranges for actual postings
9. Maintain assignment ofSD condition types  to COPA value fields
10. Assign quantity filedds
11. Maintain PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM
12. Activate profitability analysis
13. Creation of sales order
14. Production receipt
15. Posting of delivery
16. Create profitability forms
17. Create profitability report

Product costing:.

Product cost planning:

1. Maintain overhead cost elements
2. Creation of dummy cost center
3. Define overhead keys
4. Define overhead groups
5. Define calculation bases
6. Define percentage overheads
7. Define credits
8. Define costing sheet
9. Assign costing sheet to costing variant
10. Creation of allocation cost elements
11. Creation of activity types
12. Creation of GL accounts and primary cost elemtns
13. Creation of cost centers
14. Creation of cost center groups
15. Planning – cost enter wise
16. Planning for activity hours
17. Activity price calculation
18. Define cost component structure
19. Determine person responsible for work center
20. Define MRP controllers
21. Define floats
22. Define production scheduler
23. Creation of material master records- finished goods
24. Creation of raw material master records
25. creation of bill materials
26. creation of work center master records
27. creation of routings
28. creation of cost estimate with quantity structure
29. marking
30. releasing
31. creation of cost estimate without quantity structure

Product cost by order

1. check valuation variant for manufacturing  orders
2. check costing variant for manufacturing orders.
3. Check order types.
4. Define goods received valuation for order delivery
5. Define results  analysis  keys
6. Define cost elements for WIP calculation
7. Define results analysis versions
8. Define valuation methods
9. Define line ids
10. Define assignments
11. Define update
12. Define posting rules for settling the work  in progress
13. Define variance keys
14. Define default variance keys for plants
15. Define target cost versions
16. Assign the variance keys in the  material master
17. Creation of allocation structure
18. Creation of settlement profile
19. Assignment of the accounts for automatic postings
20. Define order type dependent parameters
21. Define scheduling parameters for production orders
22. Checking control
23. Define confirmation parameters
24. Creation of production order
25. Raw material receipt by way of opening stocks
26. Issue of goods  for production orders
27. Calculation of work in progress
28. Settlement of work in  progress to  accounts
29. Actual overhead calculation
30. Confirmation of order
31. Production receipt in to  finished  goods stock
32. Making the order technically complete.
33. Calculation of variances.

Integration

Integration of financial accounting with materials management:

1. Definition of organizational units in materials management i.e. plant, storage location and purchase organization
2. Assignemnt of organizational units to each other
3. Definition of tolerance groups for purchase orders
4. Definition of tolerance groups for goods receipt
5. Definition of tolerance groups for invoice verification
6. Definition of vendor specific tolerances
7. Creation, display and change of material master records
8. Creation of plant parameters
9. Maintenance of posting periods for materials management
10. Mainternace of parameters for invoice verification
11. Maintenance of plant parameters for inventory management and physical inventory
12. Definition of attributes for material types
13. Assignment of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting

(Integration of MM with FI)

14. Creation of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification and

Goods issue for production

Integration of financial accounting with sales and distributioin:

1. Definition of sale s organization
2. definition  of distribution channels
3. definition of divisions
4. assignment  among various organizational units in SD
5. definition of partner functions
6. definitions of shipping point and loading points
7. definition of pricing procedures
8. determining  the shipping points
9. determining the pricing procedures
10. maintenance of  SD condition types
11. maintenance of condition records
12. assignment of GL accounts for  sales transactions( integration of FI with SD)
13. creation of sales order
14. initialization of stock
15. posting  the delivery of goods
16. creating the sales invoice

     The topics  covered in  the PROJEC (only documentation is provided)

1. Project implementation flow
2. Project Creation in SAP and allocation of areas to different consultant.
3. Business Process Re-engineering
4. .System Landscape
5. ASAP Methodology
6. Project Preparation
   2. Business Blue Print
   3. Realization
   4. Final Preparation
   5. Go Live and Support
7. GAP Analysis
8. GAP Analysis
9. Case Study
10. FI Tables
11. CO Tables
12. How to view tables
13. How to view transactional data
14. LSMW(LEGACY SYSTEM MIGRATION WORK BENCH)
15. BDC(BATCH DATA CONVERSION)
16. BAPI(BUSINESS APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE)
17. SAP scripts and sap forms
18. Ticketing tools
19. ABAP query
20. User exits
21. Function exits
22. Fields exits
23. Screen exits
24. Functional exits
25. Menu exits
26. Sap transportation management (STMS)
27. How to make a request as a default request
28. Authorization check
29. User parameter maintenance
30. Functional and technical specs
31. Schedule Manager
32. Issues in implementation
33. Issues in Up gradation
34. Issues in Support
35. Tickets
36. Terms used in Projects and their Meaning- cutover Strategy
37. Rollouts/Kickoff meeting
38. Customization documents preparation
39. User documents preparation
40. User Manual in SAP

Other topics( only documentation is provided)

1. LOCK BOX
2. INTER COMPANY TRANSACTIONS
3. ELECTRONIC BANK RECONCIALATION STATEMENT
4. MANAUL BANK RECONCCIALATION STATEMENT
5. WITH HOLDING TAX (TDS) UPTO CERTIFICATE GENERATION
6. VALIDATIONS
7. SUBSTITUTION
8. REPORT PAINTER
9. RESUME PREPARATION
10. TIPS FOR INTERVIEW
11. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) (only documentation is provided)

1. SAP GST
2. What is GST?
3. Changes in SAP
4. For TAXINN customers:
5. Configuration in detail for MM & SD
6. Tax Procedure Migration-TAXINJ to TAXINN  Business Context
7. Solution Overview
8. Approach and Risk Management
9. Process Descriptions & Solution Proposal
10. Procurement Process & Solution Proposal
11. – Proposed Solution
12. -Sales Process & Solution Proposal
13. How To transport the Tax codes to production

SAP Simple Finance Course Contents

Introduction to S/4 HANA and Simple Finance

Overview of SAP HANA
• What is SAP HANA
• Why you need HANA
• How it was done before
• How it works now in HANA

Overview of Simple Finance
• Deployment Options for SFIN
• Universal Journal
• Tables Removed
• Universal Journal Extensibility
• Universal Journal Entry
• Document Numbers (BELNR)
• Document Numbers compatibility with CO
• Appendix (Extension) Ledger
• What’s changed with Simple Finance

GL and Cost Elements
• General Ledger Master Data
• Cost Element Master Data
• Primary Cost Element Creation
• Secondary Cost Element Creation
• FI and CO Period Locks

Managing Ledgers
• Appendix (Extension) Ledger
• Appendix Ledger Benefits
• Appendix Ledger Configuration
• : Master Data of Ledger
: Company Code Assignment
: Accounting Principles to Company Code Assignment

New Asset Accounting
• Table Changes in New Asset Accounting
• Advantages of New Asset Accounting
• How posting works with New Asset Accounting
• Technical Clearing Account
• Configuring Technical Clearing Account
• Define How Depreciation Areas Post to GL

CO Module in Simple Finance
• CO posting changes
• CO Configurations
• CO-PA with HANA

• Technical Changes for CO
• CO Postings