You’ll create a Primary cost account in updated G/L account maintenance transaction. In SAP Finance Accounting, the primary cost elements are personal cost, material cost, etc. When the cost element is carried between FI and controlling, it’s called primary and linked is established using G/L account.

Step 1 − Navigate to Accounting → Financial Accounting → General Ledger → Master Records → G/L Accounts → Individual Processing → Centrally FS00.

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Step 2 − Within the next window, enter G/L account. Enter the Company Code and click the Template button.

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Step 3 − You will be prompted to enter the value within the Reference G/L account box.

Step 4 − You will be prompted to enter the value within the Reference Company Code box.

Step 5 − Click the Continue button. Within the next window, enter the text box and Consumption, raw material 2 within the G/L Acct Long Text box.

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Step 6 − Navigate to Control Data tab. An alternative account number can only be assigned to one account of the operational chart of accounts, so delete the entry for this copy.

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Step 7 − Scroll down and click Input Help CElem category d to open a drop-down list with valid values.

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Step 8 − Navigate to Create/Bank/Interest tab and choose the Record Quantity check box. Enter pc within the Int. meas. unit box.

Step 9 − The next step is to move to Key word/Translation tab to select it.

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Step 10 − Move to Information (CoCd) Wb to select it. Click the Save button.

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Create a Secondary Cost

In SAP Simple Finance, only primary cost elements have an associated G/L account. Secondary cost elements which are used to allocate costs for internal activities, they don’t have any corresponding G/L account.

Step 1 − To create a secondary cost element, navigate to Accounting → Controlling → Cost Element Accounting → Master Data → Cost Element → Individual Processing → Edit Cost Element.

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Step 2 − Within the next window, enter G/L account. Enter the Company Code and click the Template button.

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Step 3 − You will be prompted to enter the value within the Reference G/L account box.

Step 4 − You will be prompted to enter the value within the Reference Company Code box.

Step 5 − Click the Continue button. Within the next window, enter the text box and Consumption, raw material 2 within the G/L Acct Long Text box.

You’ll create a secondary cost by selecting ChartOfAccounts as Secondary and by subsequent the steps as used in primary.

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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

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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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