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For each country tax procedure is defined, and tax codes are defined within this. There is a
flexibility to either expense out the Tax amounts or capitalize the same to stocks.
For each functional area in SAP Validation or Substitution is defined eg, Assets, Controlling
etc. at the following levels
a) Document Level
3) What are the application areas that use validation and substitutions?
b) CO-Cost accounting
c) AM-Asset accounting
e) CS-Consolidation
f) PS-Project system
g) RE-Real estate
FSV (Financial Statement Version) is a reporting tool. It can be used to extract final accounts
from SAP like Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet. The multiple FSV's can be used for
generating the output of various external agencies like Banks and other statutory
authorities.
'Field status groups' control the fields which come up when the user does the transactions.
In FIGL (Financial General Ledger) master, the field status group is stored.
1.How Revenue G/L recognizes in Fi-SD integration?
All accounting entries with respect to the billing will have one side of the account as a
Customer or receivable and the other side to be a revenue account.
For e.g.
Customer –Dr.
To Revenue Account- Cr.
You have to bear in mind that the customer account gets picked up from the customer
master data. All we need to do is to configure the revenue account or the discounts and
surcharges
CK11n is used to calculate the standard cost estimate of the product. the system considers
the bom structure and valuation strategy and control mention in the costing variant and
calculates teh standard cost of the material. cost estimate is run or the standard cost is
calculated monthly, quarterely etc. and all the analasys of actual production is based against
this standard estimate.
CK40N is used for updation purpose, CK40n is used to update the Prices in the material
master. it is done by marking and releasing the cost estimate which is calcualted. when
marking is done, the system will update the price of the material in the material master in
costing 2 tab in the future price. when release is done then the system will update the
current standard price in teh costing 2 tab. all the postings will then use the price which is
updated.
The chart of accounts contains the list of GL accounts. In simple words, it may be defined as
a list of GL accounts used for external(Tax authorities etc.) and internal( management level
etc.) purposes.
7. What is USGAAP?
USGAAP Stands for "United State Generally Accepted Accounting Principle" used to prepare
financial statements for publicly traded companies and many private companies in the
United States. Generally accepted accounting principles for local and state governments
operates under a different set of assumptions, principles, and constraints, as determined by
the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
b) Material Management
c) Human Resource
d) Production Planning
a) Company Code
b) Business Area
c) Chart of Account
d) Functional Area
a) Account Types
b) Types of posting. Debit or Credit
Example: April 2012 to Dec 2012 is our first calendar year, and Jan 2013 to March 2013 is
our second year, now if you are taking April-12 to Dec-12 as your fiscal year, then Jan-13 to
March-13 automatically becomes the second year, and you have to adjust this year by
using -1 shift, and vice versa if the scenario is reversed, here you will use +1 shift.
10) What is year dependent fiscal year variant?
In a year dependent fiscal year variant, the number of days in a month is not as per the
calendar month. For example, in year 2005, month January end on 29 th, month Feb ends on
26th etc.
11) In SAP how input and output taxes are taken care?
For each country tax procedure is defined, and tax codes are defined within this. There is a
flexibility to either expense out the Tax amounts or capitalise the same to stocks.
17) What is the default exchange rate type which is picked up for all SAP transactions?
For all SAP transaction, the default exchange rate is M (Average Rate).
18) What are the methods by which vendor invoice payments can be made?
a) Manual payment without the use of any output medium like cheques etc.
b) Automatic payments like DME (Data Medium Exchange), cheques, Wire transfer
21) What is the importance of GR/IR ( Good Received/ Invoice Received) clearing account?
GR/IR ( Good Received/ Invoice Received) is an interim account. In the legacy system, if
the goods are received and the invoice is not received, the provision is made, in SAP at the
goods receipt. It passes the Accounting entry debiting the Inventory and crediting the GR/IR
account. Similarly, when an invoice is received the vendor account is credited, and the
GR/IR account is debited, the GR/IR will show as an un-cleared items till the time the
invoice is not received.
26) What is the importance of asset classes? What asset classes are there?
The asset class is the main class to classify assets. Every asset must be assigned to only
one asset class. Example of asset class is Furniture & Fixtures, Plant & Machinery, and
Computers etc. The asset class also contains G1 account, when any asset is procured, G1
account is debited. Whenever you create and asset master, it becomes mandatory to
mention the assest class for which you are creating the required assets. So, whenever any
asset transaction occurs, the G1 account attached to the asset class is automatically picked
up and the entry is passed. You can also specify the default values for calculating the
depreciation values and other master data in each asset class.
27) How capital WIP (Work In Process) and Assets accounted for in SAP?
‘Capital WIP’ is referred to as Assets under construction in SAP and is represented under
specific asset class. Depreciation is not charged under ‘Capital WIP’ usually. The cost
incurred on building a capital asset can be booked to an ‘internal order’ and through the
settlement procedures, and can be posted onto an ‘Asset Under Construction’.
b) Name
c) Maintain Language
e) Controlling Integration
g) Block indicator
a) Update
c) Currency
d) Description
e) Credit Limit
f) Risk Category
g) Fiscal Variant
h) Rep group
32) Explain in simple terms what is field status and what does it control?
Field status group is a group configured in FSV (Field Status Variant) to maintain field
status for G/L (General Ledger) accounts. It controls which field should suppress, display,
optional and required.
37) In SAP, Customer and Vendor code are stored at what level?
The Vendor and Customer codes are stored at the client level. It means that by extending
the company code view any company code can use the customer and vendor code.
a) Small differences
c) Quantity variances
d) Price variances
41) In SAP FICO what are the terms of payment and where are they stored?
Payment terms are created in the configuration and determine the payment due date for
vendor/customer invoice.
They are stored on the customer or vendor master record and are pulled through onto the
customer/vendor invoice postings. The due date can be changed on each individual invoice
if required.
43) What are the standard stages of the SAP payment run?
The following steps are the standard stages of the SAP payment run
44) In Accounts Receivable, what is the difference between the ‘Residual Payment’ and ‘Part
Payment’ methods of allocating cash?
‘Residual payment’ and ‘Part payment’ are the two methods for allocating partial methods
from customers. For example, an invoice for $100 is generated, customer has paid $70.
Now this $70 will be off-set and leaving the remaining balance $30. With residual payment,
the invoice is cleared for the full value of $100 and a new invoice is generated for the
remaining balances $30.
46) What is the purpose of the account type field in the GL (General Ledger) master record?
At the end of the year, profit and loss accounts are cleared down to the retained earnings
balance sheets account. The field contains an indicator which is linked to a specific GL
(General Ledger) accounts to use in this clear down.
47) Explain what is recurring entries and why are they used?
Recurring entries can eliminate the need for the manual posting of Accounting documents
which do not change from month to month. For example, an expense document can be
generated which can be scheduled for the last days of each month or whenever an
individual wants it. Usually multiple recurring entries are created at one go and then
processed all together as a batch month end using transaction.
d) Orders with Revenue: It display the cost controlling parts of Sales and Distribution, it
does not affect the core business of the company
Fixed asset
Accrual
Cash journal
Accounts receivable and payable
Inventory
Tax accounting
General ledger
Fast close functions
Financial statements
Parallel valuations
Master data governance
You can also generate profit and loss accounts according to Profit Center and also generate
balance sheets however Profit center should only be used for internal reporting purposes.
The key components of a profit center includes – name of the profit center, the controlling
area under which it is assigned, time period, person responsible for the profit center,
standard hierarchy, etc.
SAP CO Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) is used for the evaluation of Market segments, which
is classified according to −
Costing-based
Account-based
58) What are the common types of reports that can be used for Account Analysis (A/R)?
There are many types of reports that can be used for account analysis (A/R) −
FI-GL-GL (FBSC) General Ledger Accounting: Basic Functions – R/3 Customizing for G/L
Accounts
It is used to find out due/overdue invoices and to process list of customer and vendor
invoices to make payments in one go. APP can’t be used for all company codes from
different countries.