FICO COURSE CONTENT

Introduction to SAP R/3

1. Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages
2. Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO

Financial Accounting Basic Settings:

1. Definition of company
2. Definition of company code
3. Assignment of company to company code
4. Definition of business area
5. Definition of fiscal year variant
6. Assignment of fiscal year variant to company code
7. Definition of posting period variant
8. Assignment of posting period variant to company code
9. Open and close posting period
10. Defining document type & number ranges
11. Maintenance of field status variants
12. Assignment of field status variant to company code
13. Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts
14. Definition of tolerance groups for employees
15. Assignment of tolerance groups to users
16. Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)
17. Creation of chart of Accounts
18. Defining Accounts Groups
19. Defining Retained Earnings Account.

General Ledger Accounting:

1. Creation of General Ledger Master (with and with out reference)
2. Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
3. Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference
4. Display and change of documents
5. Display of GL balances
6. Display GL account line items
7. Parked documents
8. Hold documents
9. Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents
10. Defining recurring entry document and postings with recurring doc.
11. Creation of account assignment model and posting
12. Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items
13. Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal , reversal of cleared items and reversal of accrual and deferral documents
14. Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation ratios
15. Define Exchange rates & posting of foreign currency transactions
16. Interest calculations on term loans
17. Accrual and Deferral documents

Accounts Payable

1. Creation of vendor account groups
2. creation of number ranges for vendor master records
3. assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for venders
5. Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
6. Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)
7. Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions)
8. Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment
9. Creation of payment terms,
10. Creation of house banks and account ids.
11. Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
12. display check register
13. cancellation of un issued checks
14. creation of void reasons
15. cancellation of issued checks
16. posting of purchase returns
17. Configuration of automatic payment program
18. Payment to vendors through APP
19. Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts

Accounts receivable:

1. Creation of customer account groups
2. creation of number ranges for customer master records
3. assignment of number ranges for customer account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for customers
5. Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
6. Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)
7. Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)
8. Configuration of settings for dunning
9. generating the dunning letters
10. defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
11. posting of sales returns

Asset Accounting

1. Defining chart of depreciation
2. creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased
3. assignment of chart of depreciation to company code
4. Defining account determination
5. definition of screen lay out rules
6. definition of number ranges for asset classes
7. Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
8. Defining Depreciation key
9. definition of multilevel methods
10. definition of period control methods
11. creation of main asset master records
12. creation of sub asset master records
13. Acquisition of fixed assets
14. sale of fixed assets
15. transfer of assets
16. Scrapping of assets,
17. Depreciation run
18. Line item Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress

New General ledger accounting:

1. Parallel ledgers
2. document splitting
3. Segments.

Reports

1. 1.Financial statement version
2. General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Assets Reports

CONTROLLING

Basic settings for controlling

1. Defining Controlling Area
2. Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
3. Maintain Planning Versions

Cost element accounting:

1. creation of primary cost elements from financial accounting area
2. creation of primary cost elements from controlling area
3. display of cost element master records
4. change cost element master records
5. primary cost element categories
6. secondary cost element categories
7. default account assignments
   

Cost Center Accounting

1. Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
2. Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups
3. display cost center master records
4. change cost center master records
5. creation of cost center groups
6. posting to cost centers
7. reposting of co line items
8. Repost of Costs
9. planning for cost centers
10. Overhead Calculation
11. creation of secondary cost element master records
12. Creation and Execution of Distribution Cycle
13. creation and execution of assessment cycles
14. creation and execution of periodic reposting cycles
15. cost center reports

Internal Orders

1. Defining order types
2. Creation of internal order master records
3. display internal order master records
4. change internal order master records
5. postings to internal orders
6. planning for internal orders
7. reposting co line items for internal orders
8. repost of costs for internal orders
9. Report of Variance analysis for internal orders
10. creation of real internal orders
11. posting of business transaction to real orders
12. definition of allocation structures
13. definition of settlement profiles
14. definition of planning profiles
15. settlement of real internal orders

Profit Center Accounting

1. Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting
2. Creation of Dummy Profit Centers
3. maintenance of control parameters for actual postings
4. Maintaining planning versions for profit centers
5. maintaining the number ranges for profit center documents
6. Creation of profit center master records
7. display of profit center master records
8. changing the profit center master records
9. Creation of revenue cost elements
10. Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
11. assignment of profit centers in cost center master records
12. creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
13. planning for profit and loss account items
14. planning for balance sheet items
15. posting of transactions into profit centers
16. generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items
17. Generating the variance reports for balance sheet items.

Profitability analysis

1. Maintaining the operating concern
2. Define profitability segment characteristics
3. Assignment of controlling area to operating concern
4. Activating the profitability analysis
5. Define number ranges for actual postings
6. Mapping of SD conditions types to COPA value fields
7. defining the PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM
8. creation of forms (simple report painter)
9. creation of reposrts
10. viewing the reports.

Product costing:.
Product cost planning:

1. creation of bill materials
2. creation of activity type master records
3. planning for activity hours
4. activity type price calculation
5. creation of work center master records
6. creation of routings
7. defining cost sheet( over head structures)
8. assignment of cost sheet to costing variant
9. creation of cost estimate with quantity structure
10. marking
11. releasing
12. creation of cost estimate without quantity structure
    

Integration of financial accounting with materials management:

1. Definition of organizational units in materials management i.e. plant, storage location and purchase organization
2. Assignemnt of organizational units to each other
3. Definition of tolerance groups for purchase orders
4. Definition of tolerance groups for goods receipt
5. Definition of tolerance groups for invoice verification
6. Definition of vendor specific tolerances
7. Creation, display and change of material master records
8. Creation of plant parameters
9. Maintenance of posting periods for materials management
10. Mainternace of parameters for invoice verification
11. Maintenance of plant parameters for inventory management and physical inventory
12. Definition of attributes for material types
13. Assignment of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting (Integration of MM with FI)
14. Creation of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification and Goods issue for production

Integration of financial accounting with sales and distributioin:

1. Definition of sale s organization
2. definition of distribution channels
3. definition of divisions
4. assignment among various organizational units in SD
5. definition of partner functions
6. definitions of shipping point and loading points
7. definition of pricing procedures
8. determining the shipping points
9. determining the pricing procedures
10. maintenance of SD condition types
11. maintenance of condition records
12. assignment of GL accounts for sales transactions( integration of FI with SD)
13. creation of sales order
14. initialization of stock
15. posting the delivery of goods
16. creating the sales invoice