Anand Seetharaju, Mayank Sharma

General Ledger Accounting with SAP S/4HANA

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The general ledger is the backbone of your financials system. Learn everything you need for configuring and using the general ledger in SAP S/4HANA. Walk step by step through setting up fiscal years, posting periods, parallel ledgers, and more. See routine processes like posting, document control, and year-end closing in action. Whether you're planning a new implementation or a system conversion, this is your complete guide to general ledger accounting in SAP S/4HANA!

Highlights include:
1) Posting periods
2) Parallel reporting
3) Currencies
4) Master data
5) Profit center accounting
6) Document splitting, posting, and clearing
7) Cost of sales accounting
8) Financial close
9) Accruals management
10) Reporting and analytics
11) Central Finance

Produktdetails

• SAP PRESS Englisch
• Verlag: Rheinwerk Verlag / SAP PRESS
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 459/22364
• Seitenzahl: 886
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 183mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1704g
• ISBN-13: 9781493223640
• ISBN-10: 149322364X
• Artikelnr.: 67268117

Autorenporträt

Anand Seetharaju is a certified SAP S/4HANA financial and management accounting consultant. He holds active CPA and CMA licenses and has more than 25 years of experience in business process design, consulting, and implementation of accounting systems. He has led several SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance transformation projects and has presented several topics at SAP conferences. Additionally, he has extensive implementation experience with the SAP classic general ledger, new general ledger, and SAP S/4HANA general ledger, including the conversion from a classic general ledger. Anand's experience includes global SAP finance and controlling implementations and rollouts with an emphasis on Central Finance, receivables management, revenue accounting and reporting, cash and liquidity management, profitability analysis, project systems, product costing, material ledger, capital asset management, leasing, global tax, and legal reporting.

Inhaltsangabe

... Preface ... 25

... Who This Book Is For ... 25

... How This Book Is Organized ... 26

... Acknowledgments ... 28

1 ... Introduction to the General Ledger in SAP S/4HANA ... 31

1.1 ... Financial Accounting ... 32

1.2 ... Evolution of General Ledger ... 43

1.3 ... Features of General Ledger Accounting in SAP S/4HANA ... 46

1.4 ... Summary ... 48

2 ... Organizational Structure ... 49

2.1 ... Organizational Elements ... 50

2.2 ... Customizing for General Ledger Enterprise Structure ... 57

2.3 ... Summary ... 72

3 ... Integrated Business Processes ... 75

3.1 ... Integration with Finance ... 76

3.2 ... Integrated Business Processes in General Ledger Accounting ... 10

3.3 ... Integration with Logistics ... 117

3.4 ... Integration with SAP Human Capital Management for SAP S/4HANA ... 119

3.5 ... Integration with External Systems ... 120
3.6 ... SAP S/4HANA Finance Integration with Other SAP Components ... 123

3.7 ... Summary ... 124

4 ... Fiscal Year and Posting Periods ... 127

4.1 ... Fiscal Years and Calendar Years ... 128

4.2 ... Shortened Fiscal Years ... 132

4.3 ... Special Periods ... 138

4.4 ... Variant Principle ... 139

4.5 ... Posting Periods ... 140

4.6 ... Opening and Closing Fiscal Years ... 142

4.7 ... Fiscal Year Challenges in Asset Accounting ... 147

4.8 ... Fiscal Year Conversion ... 148

4.9 ... Customizing Fiscal Year Variants ... 150

4.10 ... Customizing Posting Periods ... 156

4.11 ... Summary ... 158

5 ... Parallel Reporting ... 161

5.1 ... Parallel Accounting in Financial Accounting ... 162

5.2 ... Parallel Accounting in the Classic General Ledger, New General Ledger, and SAP S/4HANA General Ledger ... 164

5.3 ... Parallel Accounting with Special Purpose Ledgers ... 164

5.4 ... Parallel Accounting with the Company Code Approach ... 165

5.5 ... Parallel Accounting with the Accounts Approach ... 166

5.6 ... Parallel Accounting with Parallel Ledger Approach ... 168

5.7 ... Parallel Accounting in Application Components ... 180

5.8 ... Customizing Ledgers and Currencies ... 192

5.9 ... Customizing Parallel Accounting in Financial Accounting ... 196

5.10 ... Customizing Parallel Accounting in Asset Accounting ... 198

5.11 ... Customizing Parallel Accounting in Controlling ... 201

5.12 ... Subsequent Implementation of Accounting Principle ... 207

5.13 ... Preparation Phase ... 211

5.14 ... Execution Phase ... 223

5.15 ... Postprocessing Phase ... 228

5.16 ... Summary ... 230

6 ... Currencies ... 231

6.1 ... Currency Definitions ... 232

6.2 ... Currencies in SAP General Ledger ... 235

6.3 ... Exchange Rates ... 246

6.4 ... Customizing Currencies ... 254

6.5 ... Subsequent Implementation of Currencies ... 267

6.6 ... Summary ... 287

7 ... Master Data ... 289

7.1 ... Chart of Accounts ... 290

7.2 ... General Ledger Account Master Data ... 294

7.3 ... Account Groups ... 304

7.4 ... Profit Center Master Data ... 304

7.5 ... Segments ... 309

7.6 ... Global Hierarchies ... 311

7.7 ... Statistical Key Figures ... 312

7.8 ... Retained Earnings Accounts ... 316

7.9 ... Financial System Versions ... 317

7.10 ... Coding Block Extensibility ... 320

7.11 ... Changing General Ledger Account Open Item Management Status ... 324

7.12 ... Customizing Settings ... 329

7.13 ... Summary ... 332

8 ... Documents and Posting Control ... 335

8.1 ... Document Overview ... 335

8.2 ... Data Entry View versus General Ledger View ... 340

8.3 ... Screen Variants for Document Entry ... 343

8.4 ... Document Change Rules ... 345

8.5 ... Document Types ... 351

8.6 ... Posting Keys ... 352

8.7 ... Field Statuses ... 353

8.8 ... Tolerance Groups for Posting Authorizations ... 355

8.9 ... Defining Text for Line Items ... 357

8.10 ... Defining Default Values ... 359

8.11 ... Document Numbering ... 361

8.12 ... Summarization ... 365

8.13 ... Customizing ... 368

8.14 ... Summary ... 380

9 ... Document Splitting ... 381

9.1 ... Document Splitting Basics ... 382

9.2 ... Basic Document Splitting ... 386

9.3 ... Extending Document Splitting ... 402

9.4 ... Segment Reporting ... 411

9.5 ... Subsequent Implementation of Document Splitting ... 423

9.6 ... Summary ... 452

10 ... Profit Center Accounting ... 453

10.1 ... Profit Center Accounting Basics ... 453

10.2 ... Planning ... 458

10.3 ... Actual Postings ... 462

10.4 ... Transfer Pricing ... 485

10.5 ... Profit Center Reorganization in SAP S/4HANA ... 495

10.6 ... Customizing ... 498

10.7 ... Summary ... 500

11 ... Document Posting ... 503

11.1 ... Document Parking ... 504

11.2 ... Document Holds ... 516

11.3 ... Posting Simple Financial Accounting Documents ... 521

11.4 ... Journal Entry Workflow ... 524

11.5 ... Changing Documents ... 526

11.6 ... Reversing Documents ... 529

11.7 ... Recurring Documents ... 539

11.8 ... Enhancements to Document Postings ... 550

11.9 ... Summary ... 554

12 ... Document Clearing ... 555

12.1 ... Open Item Clearing ... 556

12.2 ... Clearing Transactions ... 563

12.3 ... Clearing Process ... 565

12.4 ... Posting with Clearing ... 575

12.5 ... Account Clearing ... 575

12.6 ... Managing Payment Differences ... 576

12.7 ... Bank Subaccounts ... 581

12.8 ... Resetting Clearing ... 582

12.9 ... Cross-Company Code Postings ... 583

12.10 ... Clearing Open Items in Foreign Currency ... 587

12.11 ... Summary ... 588

13 ... Cost of Sales Accounting ... 589

13.1 ... What Is Cost of Sales Accounting? ... 590

13.2 ... Functional Area Concept ... 592

13.3 ... Managing Functional Areas ... 593

13.4 ... Activate Cost of Sales Accounting ... 596

13.5 ... Cost of Sales Reporting ... 597

13.6 ... Customizing Activities ... 600

13.7 ... Summary ... 610

14 ... Financial Close ... 611

14.1 ... The Financial Closing Process ... 612

14.2 ... Allocations in General Ledger Accounting ... 616

14.3 ... Balance Interest Calculation ... 651

14.4 ... Foreign Currency Valuation ... 657

14.5 ... Multicurrency Accounting ... 661

14.6 ... Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt Clearing ... 667

14.7 ... Balance Carry-Forward ... 669

14.8 ... Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation ... 672

14.9 ... Closing Tools ... 675

14.10 ... Summary ... 677

15 ... Accruals Management ... 679

15.1 ... Accrual and Deferral Accounts ... 680

15.2 ... Types of Accruals ... 682

15.3 ... Analyzing Accrual Postings ... 698

15.4 ... Customizing ... 699

15.5 ... Migration of Manual Accruals to the SAP S/4HANA Accruals Engine ... 727

15.6 ... Summary ... 730

16 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 733

16.1 ... Reporting Basics ... 734

16.2 ... Financial Statements ... 744

16.3 ... General Ledger Reports ... 754

16.4 ... Profit Center and Segment Reporting ... 769

16.5 ... Other Reporting Tools ... 774

16.6 ... Summary ... 780

17 ... Conversion to the General Ledger in SAP S/4HANA ... 781

17.1 ... Deployment Options ... 782

17.2 ... SAP Activate Methodology ... 784

17.3 ... Conversion Process ... 787

17.4 ... Best Practices ... 799

17.5 ... Customizing in Financial Accounting ... 801

17.6 ... Summary ... 814

18 ... General Ledger with Central Finance ... 815

18.1 ... What Is Central Finance? ... 816

18.2 ... Master Data in Central Finance ... 821

18.3 ... Mapping General Ledger Account Attributes ... 826

18.4 ... Mapping of Profit Center and Segments ... 836

18.5 ... Open Items Clearing ... 837

18.6 ... Best Practices ... 838

18.7 ... General Ledger Customizing Settings ... 839

18.8 ... Summary ... 849

19 ... Miscellaneous Topics ... 851

19.1 ... Application Jobs ... 851

19.2 ... Document Transfers using Application Link Enabling ... 855

19.3 ... Sets and TVARVC Tables ... 857

19.4 ... Authorizations ... 862

19.5 ... Document Archiving ... 864

19.6 ... Integrating SAP S/4HANA with a Shared Service Center ... 866

19.7 ... Summary ... 867

... The Authors ... 869

... Index ... 871