GENARAL QUESTIONS

IMPLEMENTATION

1. How you enter SAP?

2. What is your environment?

3. Tell me role in implementation project?

4. How you work on your servers like development, quality and production server?

5. What you did in development server?

6. What data will appear in the quality client server?

7. What are the components you used in your blue print?

8. What is Blue-print? What you have done in that?

9. What you will do in realization stage?

10. Tell me some GAPS in your project?

11. What are the achievements in your project?

12. What difficulties you have faced at the time of Go-Live?

13. What is Batch Level?

14. What are the cutover activities in CO, what you have done?

SUPPORT

15. Tell me three challenging tickets resolved?

16. What are the issues resolved in your support project?

17. At your supporting project what issues you have faced?

18. Tell me about change request with examples?

19. w to prepare functional specification document?

20. If you face any problem, at the time of testing? Functional specification, what will

do further?
 GENARAL CONTROLLING

21. Tell me about CO organizational structure?

22. What is costing? Why we need Costing? Tell me the process of Non-SAP?

23. Explain the cost element process and what are the categories and when we use

these categories and explain?

24. What is version?

25. What are the GL Accounts we need to maintain cost element category?

26. Ho Difference between primary & secondary cost element and why we need

secondary cost element. Why not we use primary instead of secondary?

27. What is the Integration between CO & MM?

COST CENTER ACCOUNTING

28. What is standard hierarchy? How many we can maintain?

29. What is a cost center group?

30. What is a Activity Type?

31. What is the allocation structure?

32. Explain the cost center planning process?

33. What is Assessment and Distribution?

34. When we use distribution and Assessment?

35. What basis you have allocated for Distribution?

36. Can we assign share capital to the cost center?

37. Can we maintain multiple cost centers for single cost element with same profit

center?

38. How do you report revenue in the cost center?

39. What is cost center splitting?

40. If there is only one activity in cost center, are you going use cost center splitting?
41. What is mean by independent planning?

42. Can we settle from cost center to Asset?

43. From where system picks the activity prices and where we maintain activity price

in system?

44. What is difference between Cost center and profit center accounting?

45. How do you link cost center to profit center

46. What is indirect activity allocation?

47. What is direct activity allocation?

48. How the actual overhead calculation will be calculated?

PRODUCT COST CONTROLLING

49. Tell me the production order flow?

50. What is standard cost and actual cost?

51. What is the Cost Component Structure?

52. How many Cost components can we create?

53. What is the Difference between Cost Component Structure and Auxiliary Cost

component structure?

54. Where will you define indirect expenses in product costing?

55. Is it possible to run the cost estimate without BOM & Routing?

56. What is the purpose of costing variant?

57. Tell me the process of standard cost estimate?

58. When standard cost is estimated?

59. What is cost component split?

60. What is Accounting Entry for CK24?

61. When we run standard cost estimate the price updated in MM is Rs.120, But

already the material having the price is Rs.100. Where this difference will affect

and will it show any effect on closing stock valuation?

62. How the system knows this a/c is raw material a/c at the time of creation of raw

material a/c. How the system identify, where we integrate this?

63. Tell me the steps in Cost object controlling?

64. What is the RA Key?

65. Where we do settings for WIP?

66. What is mean by WIP? In production order when WIP & Variance will appear?

67. If there are two months like Oct, Nov. When WIP will be generated? When variance

will be generated?

68. If material cost is $100 and order quantity 10 units of production 2 units of

production GR, than tell me WIP in figure?

69. What is the use of RA Version in MTO scenario?

70. When we calculate the WIP, I want to see the break up of the entry like labor and

overheads, conversion cost like these details I need where we do these settings.

Is it possible in SAP system?

71. What is the purpose of Costing Key?

72. What is difference between Product cost by order and Sales order?

73. Can we assign multiple cost centers in one work center?

74. Is it possible to change price control in Material master?

75. If there is any effects arise when we changed price control instead of ‘S’ to ‘V’ in

material master for raw material and finished goods?

76. What is split valuat11ion?

77. What is the end user role in product costing?

78. Can we maintain multiple quantity structure for one FG?

79. What is PCC? For what purpose we will use this?

80. Why used production order?

81. Difference between Production order and PCC?

82. What does the concept of cost roll up mean in product costing?

83. What is the meaning of preliminary cost estimate for product cost collector?
84. Tell me about the process of sales order?

85. It is possible to valuate with actual price for inventory with standard price? For

which how will you do?

86. What is special procurement key?

87. What are the components required for standard cost estimate?

88. If production will stop for 3 months, can the values flow to COPA? What is the

reason?

89. In sales order what scenario you have used? What is valuation & non-valuation?

90. Is sales order for standard cost estimation? What costing variant you have used?

91. What is the use of valuation variant?

92. What is Yield variance?

93. How do you upload raw material price in the material master during

implementation time?

94. What is WIP Categories?

95. What are the standard reports in product costing that you refer to client?

96. How will you upload stock during the implementation?

97. How the price does is updated in system when the stock is initially uploaded?

98. What is Credit Key?

99. What is the use of Material Origin?

100. Explain the process and flow with entries of FI, MM, PP, and SD with movement

types in both scenarios of MTS & MTO?

101. What is difference between Material and Configured Material?

102. What is the scenario of MTS for discrete manufacturing?

103. What is difference between Discrete & Repetitive manufacturing?

104. How price will be calculated for sales order or sales order object?

105. What is sales order BOM?

106. What is the meaning of additive costs in SAP and why is it required?
107. What is the basic difference in WIP calculation in product cost by order and

product cost by period (repetitive manufacturing)?

108. What is itemization?

109. What is preliminary cost?

110. For Actual cost estimate, what you have done?

111. What is interlinking between product costing and other modules?

112. What configuration you have done in product costing?

113. What is a settlement profile and why is it needed?

114. What is Transfer or Allocation structure?

115. What is BOM & Routing in your organization?

116. Where production order cost captured in on PP Side?

117. On what basis you have allocated OH Cost?

118. What is OH Type?

119. What is Production Version?

120. If I want to valuate a material in different way, can I create 2 costing variant?

121. Can we use 2 costing variants for one company code for a period?

122. What is product cost without quantity structure?

123. How many costing variants will be created for costing version?

124. What are the documents generated at the time of billing? Where we do the

integration?

125. What is the remaining variance?

126. What is mixed price product costing?

127. What are the period end transactions?

128. What is the Target Cost?

129. What is mixed Costing?

130. What is back flush?

131. What is Reporting Point?

132. In sales order quantity is 5, and when we run MRP run Plan order qty is 8, when we

do plan order to production order qty is 10. What are the entries will posted and

what is the effects, than what about the balance stock it add to our existing

finished goods.

133. What are the entries for WIP and Variance?

134. What are WIP Settings?

135. What is the entry for Material Consumption?

136. How to get the breakup of WIP?

137. What is Difference between assignment and update in WIP?

138. Explain about line ID’s?

139. What is Modified Cost estimate & Extended Cost Estimate?

140. What is Variance?

141. What are the entries generated at time of standard cost estimate marking &

Release?

142. What is primary cost component structure?

143. My MIGO quantity is 100 quantities and in MIRO I want only 90 quantities in this

case what would be the entries in MIGO and MIRO?

144. During the Delivery what is entry?

145. During the billing what is entry?

146. In both case what is the difference in accounting entry level?

INTERNAL ORDER

147. What is a Model order in Internal Orders?

148. Tell me the CAPEX order process?

149. What is the process of CWIP/AUC in internal orders?

150. What is the purpose of internal order?

151. What is difference between statistical and real order?

152. What is the internal order? Why we need it? In domain how we use this?
153. What is difference between Cost Center and Internal order?

154. If we post expenses to cost centers and internal orders? Why we need both, we

can use either of these?

155. How do you define internal order types?

156. The end user has post some salaries thru FB50 and there are three cost objects,. ,

Cost center, Profitability segment, and internal order. Than how the system will

behave and which is real objective and statistical objective? If internal order is

real object than how SAP will behave, is it going to simulate or save or anything?

Profit Center Accounting

157. What is the difference between ECC 6.0 and 4.7 in profit center accounting?

158. What is the use of profit center accounting?

159. How do you distribute & assessment in the profit center? What is the use of

balance sheet items allocation to other profit centers?

160. What are the advantages of new GL concept?

161. Is it required activation of profit center in New GL?

162. Are you used New GL concept in your project?

163. In which situation new GL concept using in your earlier project?

164. Can I prepare P & L balance sheet at profit center level, what I have to do for that?

165. What is splitting rule?

166. How many types of views the report in profit center accounting?

CO-PA

167. What is the difference between Costing based COPA and Account based COPA?

168. How do transfer the values from CO to COPA?

169. What is COPA document?

170. What data does characteristics contains?

171. What is Master data in COPA?

172. What is COPA Costing Sheet?

173. What is integration point between SD and COPA?

174. What is COPA derivation?

175. How can derive the values from internal orders to COPA?

176. For which type of characteristic values are you using COPA derivation?

177. What is value field or key figure?

178. How we will get COGM breakup in COPA?

179. What is COPA costing key?

180. What is operating concern?

181. What is the relation between operating concern and COPA?

182. What are the organizational elements available in operating concern?

183. What are the default characteristics in the segment level analysis?

184. What is operating concern?

185. Is it possible to activate both costing based COPA and Account based COPA?

186. How many profitability segments you have used in COPA?

187. How the values flow from FI, SD, MM, CC, PC, IO to Profit Center?

188. How depreciation flow to COPA?

189. Why FI balance and COPA balance are not tallied?

190. What you did in COPA? Explain the total concept with configuration steps?

191. How cost component structure flow to COPA?

192. How the variances flow to COPA?

193. How many variances will be used in COPA?

194. What are segment levels Characteristics?

195. When we are defining the COPA, we need to select one check box? What is that?

196. Tell me about COPA planning?

197. How configured COPA Planning?

198. How many reports you have created in COPA?

199. What is record type? Whether the record type is optional or required?

200. When we are doing COPA, What is the primary configuration we need to do?

201. What is meant by top down distribution and bottom up distribution?

202. Will the values flow to the COPA without cost elements?

203. When you using PA transfer structure for COPA assessment?

204. How you allocate your marketing cost?

205. What are Characteristics and Value Fields?

206. What is drill down report?

207. How the values flow (Plan/Actual) to Report Painter?

208. What is Report Painter in COPA?

209. Have you used any standard reports in COPA without report painter?

210. From where does the characteristic come from?

211. What is transaction code of Report generation in COPA?

212. What is transaction code of OKB9 in COPA

213. Suppose if you are in supporting project, client requires creating the new value

fields and characteristics. Is it possible?

214. Why should we use reports in COPA? Can we take an help from ABAPer?

215. What is difference between profitability analysis and profit center accounting?

216. What is Difference between Cost center Assessment and COPA Assessment?

217. How will you generate the COPA transport?

218. How to release transport request?

219. How we transport the data from development to quality in COPA?

220. How many segments you have created?

221. What is library in report painter report?

222. Can we assign 4 different controlling areas to one operating concern in different

countries? Can we assign the same operating concern?

223. What is alignment/regrouping/summation in COPA?

224. Explain about COPA month end process?

225. What is customer service module, what will effect in COPA?

226. What are variables in COPA?

227. What is automatic selection when creating form in COPA?

228. What is Valuation Strategy in costing based COPA?

229. While client generating the COPA reports if he gets the dump errors. How will you

rectify the scenario?

230. What is the month end process in CO?

231. What is PP and CO integration?

232. Can I use COPA distribution?