Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide

Business User Guide
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4932-2431-9
Verlag: Rheinwerk Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 571 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1374 g

Reihe: SAP PRESS: englisch

Running accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance? This is your hands-on guide! Learn how financial accounting works with the Universal Journal and understand key organizational structures. Get step-by-step instructions to perform your finance tasks for the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and customer projects and billing. With details on both classic SAP GUI transactions and modern SAP Fiori apps, as well as coverage of new event-based revenue recognition, you’ll find everything you need in these pages!

In this book, you’ll learn about:

a. Finance Fundamentals
Explore the processes that make up financial accounting: order to cash, purchase to pay, acquire to retire, and record to report. Understand the organizational structures and general ledger master data that provide the foundation to FI.

b. Tasks and Transactions
Walk through your core accounting activities, click by click. Post journal entries in the general ledger, create customer and vendor invoices, make payments, process bank statements, manage assets, set up customer projects, and more.

c. Period-End Close and Reporting
Close your books and report on your data. In each finance subarea, perform key tasks such as reconciliation, foreign currency valuation, and reclassifications. Learn about key transactions and apps that are available for reporting.

Highlights include:

1) General ledger accounting
2) Accounts payable
3) Accounts receivable
4) Fixed assets
5) Customer projects
6) Event-based revenue recognition
7) Organizational structure
8) Period-end close
9) Reporting
10) SAP GUI transactions
11) SAP Fiori applications

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tritschler, Jonas

Walz, Stefan

Rupp, Reinhard

Mucka, Nertila

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

·. Foreword. 13

·. Preface. 15

·. Who This Book Is For. 15

·. How This Book Is Organized. 15

·. Acknowledgments. 18

·. Conclusion. 18

· 1. Introduction to SAP S/4HANA. 19

· 1.1. Deployment Models. 19

· 1.2. Universal Journal. 22

· 1.3. Simplifications and Innovations. 27

· 1.4. User Interfaces. 34

· 1.5. Summary. 40

· 2. Organizational Structure and Integration. 43

· 2.1. Standard Financial Accounting Processes. 43

· 2.2. Organizational Elements of Financial Accounting. 50

· 2.3. Integration of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting. 71

· 2.4. Summary. 86

· 3. General Ledger Accounting. 89

· 3.1. Record-to-Report. 89

· 3.2. General Ledger Master Data. 97

· 3.3. General Ledger Posting Documents. 109

· 3.4. Resetting and Reversing Documents. 145

· 3.5. Bank Accounting. 154

· 3.6. General Ledger Period-End Closing. 167

· 3.7. General Ledger Reporting. 189

· 3.8. Summary. 203

· 4. Accounts Payable. 205

· 4.1. Purchase-to-Pay. 205

· 4.2. Vendor Accounts. 222

· 4.3. Vendor Invoices. 231

· 4.4. Outgoing Payments. 239

· 4.5. Process Exceptions. 255

· 4.6. Accounts Payable Period-End Closing. 262

· 4.7. Accounts Payable Reporting. 284

· 4.8. Summary. 294

· 5. Accounts Receivable. 297

· 5.1. Order-to-Cash Process. 298

· 5.2. Customer Accounts. 308

· 5.3. Customer Invoices. 316

· 5.4. Customer Payments. 322

· 5.5. Process Exceptions. 330

· 5.6. Dunning. 339

· 5.7. Credit Management. 343

· 5.8. Accounts Receivable Period-End Closing. 350

· 5.9. Accounts Receivable Reporting. 374

· 5.10. Summary. 387

· 6. Fixed Asset Accounting. 389

· 6.1. Acquire-to-Retire Process. 390

· 6.2. Fixed Asset Accounts and Master Data. 394

· 6.3. Fixed Asset Explorer. 414

· 6.4. Asset Transactions. 422

· 6.5. Fixed Assets Period-End Closing. 439

· 6.6. Fixed Assets Reporting. 457

· 6.7. Summary. 466

· 7. Customer Project Accounting and Event-Based Revenue Recognition. 467

· 7.1. Customer Project Scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 468

· 7.2. Event-Based Revenue Recognition. 503

· 7.3. Simplified Period-End Close. 551

· 7.4. Summary. 553

·. The Authors. 555

·. Index. 557

Über Autor(innen)

Tritschler, Jonas
Jonas Tritschler is a managing director at an IT consulting firm. As a certified accountant and holder of a PHD in accounting, he trains CPAs in SAP for performing financial audits and internal control tests over the preparation of financial statements. In 2020, he became a professor of accounting at the University of Victoria, Berlin.

Jonas is responsible for the audit and evaluation of IT systems and applications, and ensures the security and compliance of applications, especially in the sensitive areas of accounting and finance. In this role, he benefits from his experience as an SAP user, which he gained over many years as interim manager and CFO.

Walz, Stefan
Stefan Walz is chief business process achitect for SAP S/4HANA financials at SAP. He has more than 30 years of SAP financials experience through his work in consulting and financials development. He is co-inventor of the Universal Journal-based management accounting and event-based revenue recognition. Today, Stefan is responsible for the process integration of customer projects, service management, and sales into SAP S/4HANA financial accounting.

Mucka, Nertila
Nertila Mucka is a senior IT auditor at ING, holding a master’s degree in information technology and finance and accounting systems. She has six years of experience in reviewing accounting and ERP systems, especially finance and Basis components in SAP for compliance and security purposes. She is a co-teacher for SAP for certified accountants in Germany, and develops automated tools for reviewing settings for the SAP S/4HANA environment.

Rupp, Reinhard
Reinhard Rupp is a professor of controlling, finance, and accounting. With many years of experience as an auditor and 18 years of experience as a top executive/CFO in various companies, including responsibility for IT/SAP systems, he has a profound understanding of the practical requirements and an eye for the strategic possibilities of the new architecture.