Asset Accounting in Simple Finance is employed for monitoring of assets in SAP system. In SAP Accounting powered by HANA system, you’ve only new asset accounting available with new G/L accounting. As SAP Finance system is integrated with other modules, you’ll move data to and from other systems, i.e. you’ll transfer data from SAP Material Management to Asset Accounting system. You’ll directly post invoice receipt or goods receipt to the asset accounting component.

You’ve the subsequent components under Asset Accounting −

Essential Functions

Subsequent are the essential functions under Asset Accounting −

Master data
Asset Acquisition and other transactions
Essential valuation functions
Closing operations

Advance functions

You’ll perform advance functions for investment support and insurance.

Financial Statement ─ You’ll perform and create consolidated group financial statements.
Information System
Usage of new depreciation calculation engine

Creating an Asset Accounting

Step 1 − To create an asset account as statistic cost element, enter the Transaction code – fs00 and press ENTER key in SAP Simple Finance.

Step 2 − In the next window, enter G/L account and Company Code. Click the With Template option on the right top corner of the screen.

Step 3 − Enter the short and the long text under Description box. Navigate to Control Data tab to select it and clear Alternative Account No field.

Step 4 − To save this entry, click the Save button at the top. To confirm the entry, enter the Transaction code /nAO90.

Step 5 − Click Line Section-Int. and double-click Account Determination. Click Selection Line as entered in the previous window and Account Determination. Click Balance Sheet Accounts.

Step 6 − In the next window, enter Balance.Sh.acct.APC value and press the ENTER key. To save the entry, click the Save button at the top of the screen.

Step 7 − Again Enter the Transaction code /nfs00 and click the Change button.

Step 8 − Select the Apply Acct Assignments Statistically in Fixed Asset Acct / Material Acct check box and click the Save button.

SAP Simple Finance – Create an Asset

In SAP Simple Finance, you’ll create a new asset under Asset Accounting. An asset in accounting is known as any tangible/intangible resource that can add a value and can be included in the financial statement.

Step 1 − To create a new asset, navigate to Accounting → Financial Accounting → Fixed Assets → Asset → Create → Asset or use Transaction code AS01.

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Step 2 − In the next window, enter Asset class and Company Code. Press ENTER key to confirm the details.

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Step 3 − You’ll select from different Asset class types as per Company Code value.

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Step 4 − In General tab, you’ve to enter the Description of the asset and navigate to Time Dependent tab and enter the Cost Center details.

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Step 5 − Next is to Navigate to Click the Deprec. Select the Areas tab and enter the value of UseLife box.

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Step 6 − Click the Save button to save the entry and you will get a confirmation that asset XXXXXXX is made in the system.

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What you will Learn in this Course?

Overview of SAP HANA

Basic HANA introduction
SAP’s Big thing
SAP Fi, SAP CO, SAP BW, SAP APO
SAP S4 Hana next generation business suite
On Premise edition and Cloud edition
S4 HANA simplifier of enterprise software
Functional scope
Roadmap
SAP Hana History
ECC and ERP Concepts
Profitability
SAP COPA
Different types of tables
MATDOC
Green Field Implementation
Transformation of SAP to different Version of HANA

SAP Hana Implementation and Finance Concepts

Customer Program
Quota Management
FIORI
Rationalization
Profit Center
IOT
ECC
New GL Concept
SAP Vs SAP Fi
WorkCenter and RECIPE
Column Based reading
Company Code
Production Order
Cost of Activity
Cost of Production

General Ledger Accounting and Master Data

Material Document
Kinds of Data
Master data and transaction
Sub ledger
ACDOCA
FIORI App
ECC V/s HANA
Rationalization

Integrated Business Processes

General Table Display
Document number, Company Code, Fiscal Year
Asset Accounting
Cost Center
Cost element
Profitability segment
Sales and Distribution
Type of accounting
Central finance
Credit Control area

Organization Structure

Creation of new company codes
Defining business area
Functional area
IFRS
Profit Center
Product hierarchy
Profit center finalization and profit center dissension
Financial accounting organizational structure
Group Currency

CO (Controlling)

Controlling organisation structure
Current and valuation profile
Controlling area
Operating Concern
Financial accounting global setting
Ledgers
Currency Types
Legal View

Concepts of General Ledger Accounting Continued

Fiscal year
Shortened fiscal year
Purchase to pay
Order to cash
Goods receipts
Invoice

Master Data Management and Migration

Upgrade and migrate
S4 HANA component
Deployment of SAP HANA
SAP HANA Database migration
Replicate to central finance
Fiori
Simplified data model in finance
Avoid redundancy
Data footprint

Management Accounting and CO-PA

Account before simple finance
Finance implication
COPA revenue
COPA cost
Revenue
The new architecture with simple finance
Cost element
Simple IT with SAP simple finance architecture
GL account and cost element details

Material Ledger and Centralized Master Data for GL

Material ledger
Prima Nota in simple finance
Mr21 and Mr22
Multi-dimensional income statement
Merge of account
GL Account
Customer account
System work through
Header table
Transaction code and parameter
TSRC table
FI/CO document
Variant related program
Difference between Tcode and program

Financials for SAP S4 Hana

Tax in SAP
Direct and Indirect Tax
Account
Document Type in SAP Fi
Posting Key
Purchase order
Checking controlling area and company code object

SAP Product Costing

Cost objects
Cost Management & Profitability Analysis
Checking scrapping document
What is scrapping means

Materials Management

Material Vs Asset
Receipts and consumption
Material price analysis
Two type of consumption
Cost center
Material price analysis
Changing cost components splits of a material

Functionalities in New Asset Accounting

SAP Hana Implementation
G/L Account
Cost Object
Revenue collector
Asset accounting
HANA road map
Standard optimized transaction
Service order
Consignment
Fault part return
Accrual Management
What is underlined process
How finance support other modules
Positive post to order and negative post to order
Go-live and post migration activities
KPI with HANA
Monitor business performance
Accrual entry
Pricing procedure
Expense and revenue account

Finance process improvement

Over absorption and under absorption
Types of cycle
SAP treasury and risk management
Functional changes in HANA

Migration to SAP S4HANA Finance and General Ledger Accounting Continued

Project system
Data archiving
Profit center
Reconciliation issue
Migration to S4 Hana
Enablement of SAP S4 Hana
Implementing new G/L
Document Splitting
Parallel accounting

SAP Central Finance on S4 Hana

Replication to central finance
Non ECC system
Central finance mapping
Type of deployment

S4 Hana project phases

Preparation phase
Feasibility check
Check Size
Active business function
Parallel valuation
Depreciation calculation
Consistency check
Customizing
Data migration
Post migration
Testing
Preparation phase
Important SAP notes
Scope – ABAP
Active business function
FI consistency check

Reconciliation Process in SAP Hana

Reconciliation of general ledger and account payable
Reconciliation of the general ledger with materials management
Reconciliation of the ledgers
Ledger Comparison
Consistency check
Migration of general ledger settings
Defining setting for the journal entry ledger

Other Key Topics

Document types for Co
Real time reconciliation
Execute consistency check of general ledger setting
Data migration
Universal journal entry table
Management accounting
Migrate secondary cost elements to the card of accounts
Migration of cost elements to G/L account
Automatic account determination

Material Valuation in SAP Hana

Automatic determination of the account
Material valuation
Migrate default account assignments

Customizing Financials in SAP S/4HANA

Reconcile transnational data
Types of reconcile
Enrichment of data
Migration of line items into new data structure
Universal journal entry structure

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