SAP S/4 HANA Finance Training
SAP S/4 HANA Finance is the new ERP Financial Solutions portfolio built for SAP HANA, allowing “real-real-time” analytics at “most granular level” across all financial dimensions.
With SAP S/4HANA Finance, you can create a common view of all financial and operational data, provide flexible, easily consumable reporting, automate processes—and instantly evaluate the financial implications of business options with real-time analytics, prediction, and simulation, all with a beautiful user experience.
Overview of SAP HANA
- What is SAP HANA
- Why you need HANA
- How it was done before
- How it works now in HANA
- Data Replication in HANA
HANA Deployment Options and Architecture
- HANA Deployment Options
- On-Premise Deployment
- Difference between the two cloud services (HEC vs HCP)
- HANA Architecture Overview
- SAP HANA Architecture
Overview of Simple Finance
- Functionality and benefits of SFIN
- Deployment Options for SFIN
- Licencing Options
- SAP SFIN Software Products
- Upgrade Paths to SFIN
- Universal Journal
- Tables Removed
- Universal Journal Extensibility
- Universal Journal Entry
- Document Numbers (BELNR)
- Document Numbers compatibility with CO
- Appendix (Extension) Ledger
- What’s changed with Simple Finance
- Existing Custom Programs and Interfaces
- Prima Nota
Central Finance
- Interfaces for Central Finance
- Central Finance Instance
- External System information
- Central Finance Implementation
- Key components for installation
GL and Cost Elements
- General Ledger Master Data
- Cost Element Master Data
- Primary Cost Element Creation
- Secondary Cost Element Creation
- Fixed Asset Statistical Cost Element Creation
- FI and CO Period Locks
- Authorizations for GL Master Data
Managing Ledgers
- Appendix (Extension) Ledger
- Appendix Ledger Benefits
- Appendix Ledger Configuration
- Level 1: Master Data of Ledger
- Level 2: Company Code Assignment
- Level 3: Accounting Principles to Company Code Assignment
New Asset Accounting
- Table Changes in New Asset Accounting
- Advantages of New Asset Accounting
- How posting works with New Asset Accounting
- Technical Clearing Account
- Configuring Technical Clearing Account
- Define How Depreciation Areas Post to GL
CO Module in Simple Finance
- CO posting changes
- CO Configurations
- CO-PA with HANA
- CO and Material Ledger
- Period End Closing
- Technical Changes for CO
- CO Postings (without Ledger Group vs with Ledger Group) for Interfaces
- Technical Changes for Material Ledger
- Material Pricing
Cash Management
- Function of Cash Operations
- Function of Bank Account Management
- Function of Liquidity Management
- Fiori Apps for Cash Management
Integrated Business Planning for Finance (IBPF)
- IBPF’s role
- Pre-requisites for Installing IBPF
- Benefits of using IBPF
- How IBPF works
Migration to Simple Finance Add-on
- Migration Phases
- Project Preparation Phase
- Installation Phase
- Customizing Phase
- Data Migration Phase
- Post Processing Phase
- Points to Consider
- Simple Finance Migration
- Migration from Classic GL to SFIN
Project Preparation Phase
- Project Preparation Phase Activities
- What’s good about Asset Accounting (New)
- Checks on pre-requisites for migration to New Asset Accounting
- Project Preparation – FI-AA (New)
- Project Preparation – FI, CO, Sub-ledgers
Installation Phase
- Installation Phase Activities
Customization Phase – General Ledger
- Check and Adopt Fiscal Year Variants
- Migrate General Ledger Customizing
- Define Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types
- Define Ledger for CO Version
- Define Document Types for Postings in Controlling
- Define Document Type Mapping Variants for CO Business Transactions
- Check and Define Default Values for Postings in Controlling
- Define Offsetting Account Determination Type
- Define Currency Settings for Migration
- Define Source Ledger for Migration of Balances
- Execute Consistency Check of General Ledger Settings
- Activate Business Functions
Customization Phase – Asset Accounting (New)
- Preparation and Pre-Check
- Steps in Customizing client
- Steps in Test and Production client
- Migrate Chart of Depreciation (CoD)
- Check Pre-requisites for Activating AA (New)
- Activate Asset Accounting (New)
- Adjust Parameters in Chart of Depreciation (Optional)
Customization Phase – Controlling
- Execute BW-Delta extraction for Account-based CO-PA
- Adapt Settings for the Change of Profitability Segment Characteristics
- Maintain Operating Concern
- Maintain Operating Concern – Banking Add-on
- Activate Account-based Profitability Analysis
Data Migration Phase
- Partitioning of Universal Journal Entry Line Items Table
- Regenerate CDS Views and Field Mapping
- Migration of Cost Elements
- Technical Check of Transaction Data
- Migration - Enrichment of Data
- Migration of Line Items into Data Structure
- Migration of Balances
- Migration: Calculation of Depreciation and Totals Values
- Migrate House Bank Accounts
- Complete Migration
Post Processing Phase
- Transfer Application Indexes
- Fill Due Dates in FI Documents
- Fill the Offsetting Account in FI Documents
- Migrate House Banks
Reporting Options
- Traditional SAP ERP Reports
- SFIN Reports
- HANA LIVE Reports
- Fiori Apps
Preparing for Certification
- How to book for the exam
- Preparing for the online proctored exam
- What contents will be quizzed upon
- Sample questions and answers