SAP R/3: Financials, Controlling & ABAP/4
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Course Description

This is a high-end course for professionals who wish to enter the SAP software consultant market. The course starts off with the understanding of ERP and the various ERP applications available in the market. Describes SAP R/3’s functional and technical architecture at a conceptual level and thereafter goes into detail configuration of the Financial (FI) and Controlling (CO) Modules. Trainees would be exposed to the ABAP/4 language and workbench environment to create sample programs and reports relevant to FICO modules

Course Objectives

Intended Audience

Prerequisites

Course Contents

OVERVIEW OF SAP R/3
  • SAP R/3 implementation issues
  • Navigation in SAP R/3
  • Transaction codes
  • Implementation Guide (IMG)
  • Functional module overview
  • Sales and Distribution
  • Materials Management
  • Production Planning
  • Financial Accounting
  • Controlling and Project Systems
  • Organization structure in SAP R/3

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (FI)

A. General Ledger (FI-GL)

  • Define organizational structure in finance
  • Master Data & Maintenance
  • Differentiate master and transaction data
  • Examine types of master data contained in financial accounting
  • Create & maintain chart of accounts
  • Create general ledger account
  • Explain the function of the account group
  • Document entry & change
  • Review the document principle in fi-gl
  • Define structure of document
  • Explain the function of the field status group
  • Create and process recurring document
  • Period End Processing in FI-GL
  • Understand Month End and Year End processes
  • General Ledger Reporting
  • Balance Sheet & Profit & Loss Statements Structure
  • Detailed Balance reporting
  • Drill down to document level

B. Accounts Payable (AP)

  • Creating vendor master records
  • Configure payable transactions
  • Enter/process invoices
  • Process payment block
  • Process credit memos
  • Define payment terms
  • Create/process payment runs

C. Accounts Receivable (AR)

  • Sales processing cycle overview
  • Create customer master data
  • Processing manual incoming payments
  • Configure dunning program
  • Accounting flow in AR
  • AR reporting
 CONTROLLING (CO)

A. Cost Center Accounting

  • Introduction to Management Structures in SAP R/3
  • Understand financial & cost accounting structures in R/3
  • Overview of organizational units in Controlling
  • Overview of Integration of Controlling with General Ledger
  • Cost Center Accounting in Overhead Management
  • Primary cost elements and cost element groups
  • Secondary cost elements and groups
  • Cost centers & groups
  • Activity types & groups
  • Configuration and Master Data in CO-CCA Configure the controlling area with master data
  • Control document number ranges
  • Transactions based posting in CO-CCA
  • Understand the links between FI and CO-CCA
  • Allocations

B. Overhead Management Using

Internal Orders

  • Internal Orders
  • Types of Internal Orders
  • Basic flow of data within internal orders
  • Internal Orders - Master Data & Maintenance
  • Detail Order Life Cycle
  • Status management within internal orders
  • Internal Orders – Settlement
  • Overview of the settlement process
  • Integration points for settlement

ADVANCED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING (ABAP/4)

  • Introduction to ABAP/4 Programming
  • Software Design and Team Development with ABAP/4 Development Workbench
  • Elementary Language Construct
  • Working with data
  • Writing data
  • Events and Flow of Control
  • Subroutines and Functions
  • Dynamic Language Construct
  • Field Symbols
  • Automatic Program Generation
  • Manipulating Database Tables and Internal Tables
  • Reading Database Tables
  • Using Internal Tables
  • Updating Database Tables
  • Exporting and Importing Complex Data Objects
  • Create User Dialog Programs
  • Defining User Interface
  • Messages, Standardized Dialogs and Exceptions
  • Transactions
  • Advanced GUI Features
  • Remote Function Calls (RFC) and OLE Automation
  • Create Reports Using ABAP/4
  • Retrieving data using Logical Databases
  • User Interface of a Report
  • Drill Down and Advanced List Features
  • Running of a report
  • ABAP/4 Query Function
  • ABAP/4 Editor
  • ABAP/4 Debugger
  • Modularization Techniques
  • ABAP/4 Workbench