Here are the topics that you should know for SAP FICO
Topic Areas
1. Financial accounting master data (++)
Chart of accounts
G/L accounts
Reconciliation accounts
Account groups
Customer and vendor accounts
Bank accounts and bank keys
2. Document and posting control (++)
Document types and number ranges
Posting keys and field status groups
Posting periods
Posting authorizations
Default values
Document changes, change controls
Tolerance groups and payment differences
Cross-company-code processes
Document reversal
Incoming and outgoing payments
Cash discounts and terms of payment
Taxes
Clearing (manual and automatic)
Payment differences
Foreign currency and exchange rate differences
Cash journal
3. Payment program, dunning program, correspondence, interest calculation (+)
Payment program configuration
Payment run
Creating payment media
Dunning program configuration
Dunning run and printing of dunning notices
Correspondence configuration
Creating correspondence
Interest calculation configuration
Interest calculation run
4. Closing operations in financial accounting (+)
Month and year-end closing
Financial statement versions and reporting
Receivables and payables
Profit and loss
Technical, organizational, and documentation steps
5. Special G/L transactions and document parking (+)
Special G/L transactions for down payments and guarantees of payment
Special G/L classes and types
Customizing for different special G/L transactions
“Park documents†vs. “Hold documentsâ€
Basic document parking
Processing parked documents
6. Asset accounting (++)
Organizational structure
Master data
Asset transactions (such as asset acquisition, fixed asset retirement, and asset transfer)
Periodic asset accounting processing
Using the information system
7. The new general ledger (+)*
Capitalization and the idea behind the new G/L
New FI characteristics
Scenarios and scenario allocation
Document splitting
Real-time integration of CO and FI
New FI standard drilldown reports
8. Analysis methods in reporting (+)
Customer and vendor information systems
Drilldown reporting in Financial Accounting
SAP List Viewer
Info System and ABAP reports of general ledger accounting, accounts receivable accounting, and accounts payable accounting
9. Parallel accounting (+)
Basic mapping for parallel accounting in the SAP system using the classic general ledger
Handling of evaluation differences in Financial Accounting:
1. Fixed assets:
Purchased fixed assets
Self-constructed fixed asset
2. Current assets
Overdue recievables
Open foreign currency items
3. Deferrals of depreciation
Mapping international reporting requirements:
1. Profit and loss statements by the cost of sales accounting method
2. Statement of cash flows
3. Segment reporting
4. Worksheet showing changes in provisions
10. SAP Solution Manager (+)
Overview of SAP Solution Manager
11. Implementation experience (case study or project)** (+)
Establishing enterprise structures (organizational units within mySAP Business Suite)
Integration and dependencies
Topic Areas
1. Cost center and profit center accounting (++)
Organizational units
Master data cost elements, cost centers, activity types, and statistical key figures
Functions for multiple sets of master data
Entering primary postings
Account assignment tools
Adjustment entries
Direct activity allocation
Accrual
Periodic reposting
Cost allocation
Introduction to management accounting planning
Cost center planning methods
Integrated planning cycle
Profit center master data
Profit center allocation
2. Overhead cost orders (++)
Real and statistical orders
Master data maintenance
Status management for overhead cost orders
Transaction-based posting from inside and outside Management Accounting
Commitments management
Rates for overhead cost orders
Billing for overhead cost orders
Automatic creation of settlement rules, hierarchical settlement, alternative settlement periods
Budgeting and availability control
3. Material cost estimate without quantity structure (+)
Fields relevant to material master cost estimates
Single-level unit costing
Multi-level unit costing
Base object and simulation costing
4. Material cost estimate with quantity structure (++)
Costing variants
Cost component split
Overhead costing structure
Bills of material
Task list
Finding bills of material and task lists
Price update
Creating a costing run
Analysis and error handling
5. Advanced cost estimate functions (+)
Transfer control
Group costing
Additive cost
Joint product cost estimates
Easy cost planning
6. Cost object controlling: make-to-stock manufacturing with periodic controlling (+)
Product cost collector
Separation scenarios
Preliminary costing of cost objects
Simultaneous costing of cost objects
Period-end closing with periodic controlling
7. Cost object controlling: make-to-stock manufacturing with order controlling (++)
Cost objects with order view
Preliminary costing of cost objects
Simultaneous costing
Period-end closing with order controlling
8. Cost object controlling: sales-order-related production (++)
Sales orders as cost objects
Preliminary costing of sales orders
Simultaneous costing of sales orders
Delivery and billing
Period-end closing for product cost by sales order
9. Cost object controlling: Engineer-to-order customer projects (+)
Customer projects as cost objects
Preliminary costing of customer projects
Simultaneous costing
Billing
Period-end closing for customer projects
10. Profitability analysis (++)
Structures of Profitability Analysis
Characteristics and value fields
Transaction data tables
Characteristic derivation
Valuation
Billing data transfer
Assessment of cost center costs
Order settlement
Allocating activities to cost centers
Direct assignment from FI
11. Reporting in management accounting (+)
ALV reports
Report Painter reports
Drilldown reporting in CO-PA
SAP BW reporting
