Provides the initial configuration and setup of accounts payable, including the organizational structure, creation, and maintenance of vendor master records, as well as payment terms. This process generates and displays reports on the tasks performed at the end of each accounting period, including monthly, quarterly, and yearly activities, to ensure the accuracy of financial records. Provides processes for the initial configuration and setup of the asset accounting module, including defining organizational units (e.g., company code or business area), a depreciation chart, and other fundamental settings. Process for generating and analyzing account receivable-related reports, including payment history, cash flow forecasts, invoice aging, and customer balances.
This process is responsible for data flows between sales and distribution, as well as financial accounting modules, including the automatic creation of accounting documents for billing, deliveries, and customer payments. This process enables the generation of reports related to activities performed at the end of each accounting period, facilitating data reconciliation, cost allocation, and analysis of the profitability of each profit center. This component provides configuration settings that link financial accounting with sales and distribution modules, ensuring that billing documents, sales orders, and deliveries are properly reflected in the financial records. This process generates accounts receivable-related reports, providing information on customer balances, payment history, invoice aging, and other customer-related data. This process generates and analyzes accounts payable-related reports, providing information on vendor balances, invoice aging, payment history, and other vendor-related data.
Asset Transactions
Process for defining depreciation methods, keys, and other parameters used to calculate depreciation expense for assets over their useful life. Reconciliation is typically used in the context of two parties that have a serious, longstanding dispute, and it’s usually considered a slow, difficult process. When true reconciliation occurs, the two formerly hostile sides become respectful of each other—and, ideally, friends. Reconciliation is the process of two people or groups in a conflict agreeing to make amends or come to a truce.
This section provides details on module integration-related areas in SAP FICO with relevant transaction codes. This section defines the key areas within closing procedures in SAP FICO and provides relevant transaction codes. This section describes the key areas within the controlling module and provides transaction codes for each. The process involves sending dunning notices (payment reminders) to customers for overdue invoices and escalating the payment collection process according to predefined levels and rules.
This process generates and analyzes reports related to the general ledger, such as transaction details, insights into account balances, and overall performance. Process for actual revenue assigning and costs to profit centers, either directly or through allocations, which reflects the profitability of each profit center. Provides the process for creating, posting, and managing invoices and credit memos issued to customers. The process for initiating and executing payments to vendors for outstanding invoices includes selecting invoices for payment, creating payment documents, and generating payment proposals. Provides configuration settings and parameters for calculating interest on General Ledger accounts, typically used for loans, deposits, or other interest-bearing transactions.
- This process enables the definition of the financial year for reporting and accounting purposes, including start and end dates, as well as the number of posting periods.
- Defines document types and posting keys to ensure the accurate and consistent processing and entry of accounting documents.
- As a result, the accounting industry has sought ways to automate a previously strenuous manual process.
- This process generates and analyzes reports related to the general ledger, such as transaction details, insights into account balances, and overall performance.
- This section provides details on module integration-related areas in SAP FICO with relevant transaction codes.
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Reconciliation is the practice of matching balances in accounts to find any financial inconsistencies, discrepancies, omissions, and even frauds. Every transaction is recorded in two accounts (debit in one and credit in another) in the books of accounts. This process provides the initial configuration and setup of the extended withholding tax functionality, including relevant general ledger accounts, formulas, codes, and definitions of withholding tax type. This process provides the initial configuration and setup of the profit center accounting sub-module, including controlling area settings, activation of PCA, and their standard hierarchy.
Provides execution of withholding tax-related transactions, including actual calculation, posting, and remittance, as well as reporting functionality to ensure compliance with tax authorities. The process of recording and managing customer down payments, including clearing down payments, requesting down payments, and posting down payments against invoices. Provides options for creating, verifying, and posting credit memos and invoices received from vendors, ensuring the accuracy of liability records. This section provides definitions and key areas related to extended withholding tax transaction codes. Management process of bills of exchange receivable from customers, including creation, discount, and collection of bills of exchange. Process for integrating credit management functionalities into accounts receivable to evaluate a customer’s creditworthiness by setting up credit limits and monitoring customer credit exposure.
Provides handling of specific transaction types that require special treatment in General Ledger, such as bills of exchange, payments, and guarantees. Accounting software is one of a number of tools that organizations use to carry out this process thus eliminating errors and therefore making accurate decisions based on the financial information. Reconciliation of accounts determines whether transactions are in the correct place or should be shifted into a different account. This process is used to assign costs to cost centers, which represent the organizational units responsible for incurring costs, allowing cost and performance tracking and analysis at the cost center level. Processes for the periodic execution of the depreciation run, including calculation and posting of depreciation expenses, as well as generation of asset-related reports.
Profit Center Master Data
Configuration and execution of the automatic payment program, which involves selecting payment invoices, creating payment documents, and generating payment proposals. Provide the process of correcting errors by reversing the previously posted documents in General Ledger to prevent their impact on the accounts. Functions to review and analyze individual balance and line items of General Ledger accounts to understand financial performance and identify potential issues.
Internal Order Management
Process of reviewing, analyzing, and, when necessary, making adjustments and corrections to existing accounting documents in the General Ledger. Sets the limits for transaction posting, within which users can post transactions, thereby helping to prevent errors, unauthorized activities, and fraud. This section defines each function related to enterprise structure and basic settings in the SAP FICO module. The Table Maintenance and Query function enables direct viewing and maintenance of data within SAP tables, provided proper authorization is in place, and extracts specific data from the system using query tools.
The reconciliation ledger is a process used to reconcile data between the financial accounting and controlling modules, ensuring that cost and revenue-related information is consistent across both areas. This process enables the definition of the financial year for reporting and accounting purposes, including start and end dates, as well as the number of posting periods. As a result, the accounting industry has sought ways to automate a previously strenuous manual process. The pressure of SOX is coupled with the perennial need to mitigate erroneous reconciliation in the process. This process enables effective communication management with vendors, customers, and stakeholders, including account statements, payment reminders, and confirmations. Utilizes a cash journal to manage and record accounts payable-related cash transactions, including payments made outside the standard payment process and petty cash transactions.
G/L Account Balance & Line-Item Analysis
Provides generation and analysis of accounts payable-related reports, such as cash flow forecasts, vendor balances, payment history, and invoice aging. This process is responsible for data flows between the financial accounting and materials management modules, including the automatic creation of documents for invoice posting, receipt posting, goods issues, and goods receipts. This component defines the configuration settings that link the materials management and financial accounting modules, ensuring that inventory transactions and goods movements are reflected in financial accounting.
- Defines the structure and numbering of General Ledger accounts, which form the basis for recording financial transactions.
- Functions to review and analyze individual balance and line items of General Ledger accounts to understand financial performance and identify potential issues.
- This section describes the key areas within the controlling module and provides transaction codes for each.
- Process for defining depreciation methods, keys, and other parameters used to calculate depreciation expense for assets over their useful life.
- Reconciliation is the practice of matching balances in accounts to find any financial inconsistencies, discrepancies, omissions, and even frauds.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, Reconciliation is the name of a sacrament in which people confess their sins—a process popularly known as confession.
Management of account receivables, including payment terms, due dates, and any other discounts reconciliation definition previously offered to customers. This section outlines the key areas within Accounts Payable in SAP FICO, providing definitions and transaction codes for each. Function to create, maintain, and manage master data records for general ledger accounts, defines attributes and characteristics for each account.
SAP data dictionary is a program that can be accessed and used to understand the structure of tables, data elements, and domains. It can be utilized by development tools, such as the ABAP Workbench, to create custom reports, programs, and enhancements. This section defines key areas for general ledger accounting and important T-Codes in SAP FICO; below is the definition for each area. Provides global settings and currency parameters that can be used throughout the SAP system, ensuring proper handling of financial data across different currencies and countries. In both cases where mistakes are identified as a result of the reconciliation, adjustments should be undertaken in order for the account balance to match the supporting information. Process of setting and determining which fields are optional or mandatory when posting to general ledger accounts.
The process of adjusting General Ledger accounts to reflect changes in exchange rates for foreign currencies, ensuring financial reporting accuracy. Defines document types and posting keys to ensure the accurate and consistent processing and entry of accounting documents. Defines the structure and numbering of General Ledger accounts, which form the basis for recording financial transactions. In this method, balances are looked at individually and compared to what should be based on a specific parameter. For example, while sifting through a list of transactions, an accountant found an expense like rent is recorded to be ten times what it was in the previous years.
Process of recording financial transactions in General Ledger, e.g., creating accounting documents that reflect the impact of the transaction on General Ledger accounts. The process defines the configurations for accounting periods that are open for transaction posting and allows for controlling and preventing incorrect periods to ensure data integrity. For example, a company might reconcile bank transactions recorded on its books and those recorded at the bank’s end to figure out mismatches. On a personal level, someone can keep track of their credit card spending and match it with the bank statement to understand the account differences. The process of creating profit and loss plans for profit centers enables the establishment of performance, budgeting, and forecasting settings within those plans. This section provides definitions for the key areas within profit center accounting, along with related transaction codes.
Provides the processes of recording and managing vendor-related down payments, including posting down payment requests, requesting down payments, and clearing down payments against invoices. Provides configuration settings for tax calculation procedures, including tax codes, to ensure accurate tax reporting and compliance. This process provides a more accurate picture of profitability by allocating costs from cost centers or other profit centers to the receiving profit centers based on predefined allocation keys. Distribution allocates primary costs, while assessment allocates both primary and secondary costs. The process provides initial configuration and setup of the controlling area, fiscal year variant, and other settings that govern the cost accounting processes.