SAP S/4 HANA Controlling Training Course Contents

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

HANA Deployment Options and Architecture
•     HANA Deployment Options
•     On-Premise Deployment
•     Difference between the two cloud services (HEC vs HCP)
•     HANA Architecture Overview
•     SAP HANA Architecture

Overview of S/4 HANA Finance
•     Functionality and benefits of S/4 HANA FINANCE
•     Deployment Options for S/4 HANA FINANCE
•     Licencing Options
•     SAP S/4 HANA FINANCE Software Products
•     Upgrade Paths to S/4 HANA FINANCE
•     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 S/4 HANA Finance
•     Existing Custom Programs and Interfaces

Fiori
•     What is Fiori?
•     Problems with ECC GUI
•     Fiori design principle
•     Types of Fiori applications
•     Login and password reset
•     Home screen, Tile and Business groups
•     User personalization
•     Zoom in, zoom out
•     Object page
•     My inbox
•     Export data to excel file
•     View settings
•     Save as tile option
•     Email data in a tile
•     App Search
•     Search via Object page
•     Search via Home page
•     Global search
•     Advance apps
•     Fiori library
•     What is Fiori library?
•     How to find the use and features of an app?
•     How to search for a business role or app?
•     How to assign business role to a SAP user
•     Fiori role concept
•     Customize and assign catalogues
•     Customize and assign Fiori groups
•     Configure a new PFCG role
•     Troubleshooting Fiori apps
•     Embedded analytics.

CO Module in S/4 HANA Finance  
•     Changes to CO Postings
•     CO-PA with S/4 HANA
•     CO and Material Ledger
•     Changes to Period End Closing Transactions
•     Technical changes to the CO module

Basics
•      Financial Accounting vs Management Accounting
•      Components of the CO module
•      FI Integration with CO module
•      CO Organizational units
•      Controlling Area settings
•      Company Code to Controlling Area assignment

Cost Element Accounting
•      General Ledger Master Data
•      Analyse the various types of Cost Elements
•      Primary vs Secondary Cost Elements
•      Cost Element Groups
•      Cost Element Categories
•      Create Cost Elements for Allocation Cycles

Cost Center Accounting
•      Define and Create Cost Center Hierarchy
•      Define, Create, and Configure Cost Centers
•      Determine usage of Cost Center Accounting with Planning Functionality
•      Cost Center Groups
•      Allocation Types: Distribution vs Assessment
•      Create an allocation cycle
•      Run Cost Center Reports
•      Planning function in Cost Center Accounting
•      Running Plan/Actual/Variance Reports
•      Use and creation of Statistical Key Figures (SKF)
•      SKF: Fixed Values vs Total Values
•      Entering SKFs for Allocation
•      Creating Activity Types
•      Activity Allocation
•      Adjustment Posting in CO
•      Reposting vs Allocation
•      Validation and Substitution

Internal Orders
•      Determine Internal Order Types and Planning
•      Real vs Statistical Orders
•      Determine Internal Order Settlement Rules
•      Create Number Ranges for Internal Orders
•      Assign Budgets to Internal Orders
•      Analyse Budget, Plan, Commitment and Available values

Profit Centers

• Create Organizational Chart for Profit Centers
• When to create a Profit Center
• Relationship between Business Area, Profit Center and Segment
• Creating Segments
• Defaulting a Profit Center
• Execute Profit Center Reports

Product Cost Controlling

• Product Life Cycle
• Costing Sequence
• Material Master Org Structure
• Material Master Characteristics, Material Types, Material Groups
• Material Master Data Views
• Finance integration points with the Purchasing Process
  • – Creating Purchase Order
  • – Creating Goods Receipt
  • – Creating an Invoice referencing Purchase Order
• Basic Settings for Material Costing
  • – Maintain Overhead Cost Elements
  • – Define Calculation Bases
  • – Define Percentage Overhead Rates
  • – Define Quantity-Based Overhead Rates
  • – Define Credits
  • – Define Origin Groups
  • – Define Costing Sheets
  • – Define Overhead Keys
  • – Define Overhead Groups
  • – Define Cost Component Structure
• Configuring the Material Cost Estimate
  • – Define Costing Types
  • – Define Valuation Variants
  • – Define Date Control
  • – Define Quantity Structure Control
  • – Define Transfer Strategy
  • – Define Reference Variants
  • – Define Costing Variants
• Creating Bills of Material
• Creating Routing
• Creating Work Centers and assigning Activity Types
• Understanding the use of additional functions of material costing such as Production Versions, Mixed Costing, Joint Production, etc.
• Creating Base Planning Object
• Steps to executing the Costing Run
• Configuring the Product Cost by Order
• Configuring the Product Cost by Period
• Configuring Product Cost by Sales Order
• Configuring Work in Progress (WIP)
• Configuring Variance Calculation
• Configuring Settlement
• Understand the difference between Product Cost by Order vs Period
• Creating Production Order
• Creating Process Order
• Creating Product Cost Collector
• Finance integration points with the Sales Process
  • – Creating Sales Order
  • – Creating Outbound Delivery and Post Goods Issue
  • – Creating Billing Document
• Account determination settings using OBYC
• Revenue Account determination settings for Billing

Material Ledger

• Overview of Material Ledger
• Concept of Actual Costing and Periodic Unit Price
• Material Ledger Configuration
• Material Ledger Configuration in OBYC
• Material Ledger Reports

Profitability Analysis

• Configuring the Operating Concern
• Understand the Hierarchy for Profitability Analysis
• Assignment of Controlling Area to Operating Concern
• Understand the CO-PA objects: Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristic Values, Profitability Segments
• Creating Characteristics Values
• Understand the difference between Account-based and Costing -based CO-PA
• Configure Assessment Cycle to transfer costs from Cost Centers to Profitability Segments
• Creating CO-PA Assessment Cycles
• Create transnational entries for CO-PA segments

New GL Functionality

• Advantages of using New GL
• Configuration Document Splitting
• Configuring Planning with New GL
• Entering Plan values for Profit Centers with New GL
• Important CO master data and transaction data tables

Business Partners

• ECC customer master model
• ECC vendor master model
• S/4HANA business partner model
• S/4HANA business partner approach
• BP advantages
• BP simplification
• How to create a Business Partner in GUI and Fiori Launchpad
• Standard roles for maintaining customer and vendor
• Customer and vendor specific views in BP
• How to search for a BP
• BP settings
• Blocking a BP
• BP relationship overview
• Relationship customizing
• One-way and two-way relationships
• BP tables
• BP roles
• BP role categories
• BP views (BUSD)
• BP number range and Grouping
• Customer number range assignment
• Vendor number range assignment
• Master data synchronization
• CVI customizing check report