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CASE STUDY
Process Overview
Learning Objective Understand and perform a financial accounting process. Time 65 min
Scenario In order to process a complete accounts payables process within financial accounting
you will take on different roles within the GBI company. You will be working in the Finance
Account (FI) department.
Employees involved Silvia Cassano (Accounts Payable Specialist)
Shuyuan Chen (Chief Accountant)
Clayton Bartolome (Fixed Assets Accountant)
Before you can post the account payables invoice, master data has to be Process description
maintained. Within the Case Study you will create necessary accounts
within the General Ledger and create the vendor.
Afterwards you will post the invoice and verify the changes on your
accounts.
Since the posting is relevant to P&L-Statement you will review the impact
on your Financial Statement in the end.
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In this case study we will create the master data that is involved in an Business Scenario
accounts payable process and pay our rental fee as an example. We start by
creating a bank account for outgoing payments to our vendor.
In the following screen, enter 10###5 (replace ### with your assigned 10###5
US00
number, e.g. 100125 if you have 012) as your G/L Account number and
US00 as Company Code.
Copy data from the Bank Account 100000 in Company Code US00 by 100000
choosing G/L account ► Create with reference and entering the necessary
US00
Enter Bank ### as Short Text and Bank Account ### as G/L Acct Long Bank ###
Bank Account ###
Text. Again, replace ### with your assigned number. Then, click on
(Save).
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Confirm with and return to the SAP Easy Access screen using .
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Reconciliation Accounts connect the General Ledger with subledgers that Business Scenario
are maintained for customers, vendors etc. Direct manual posting to the
Reconciliation Accounts is not possible. Later we will create a new vendor
master record and assign the new Reconciliation Account to it.
In the following screen, enter 11###5 (replace ### with your assigned 11###5
US00
number) as your G/L Account number and US00 as Company Code.
Copy data from the Reconciliation Account 300000 in Company Code 300000
US00 by choosing G/L account ► Create with reference and entering the US00
Confirm with and return to the SAP Easy Access screen using .
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In the following screen, enter 75###5 (replace ### with your assigned 75###5
US00
number) as your G/L Account number and US00 as Company Code.
740300
Copy data from the Bank Account 740300 in Company Code US00 by US00
choosing G/L account ► Create with reference and entering the necessary
data. Confirm with .
Enter Rent Expense ### as Short Text and Rent Expense ### as G/L Acct Rent Expense ###
Rent Expense ###
Long Text. Again, replace ### with your assigned number. Then, click on
(Save).
Confirm the following screen with and return to the SAP Easy Access
screen using .
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To create a new cost element, follow the menu path: Menu path
Enter 75###5 as Cost Element, choose the first of the current month as 75###5
First of the current month
Valid From and enter Cost Element 740300 out of the NA00 Controlling 740300, NA00
Area under Reference. Compare with the screenshot below.
Proceed with .
Enter Name Rent Expense ### and Rent Expense ### as Description. Rent Expense ###
Rent Expense ###
Then, click on to save your cost element.
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The Chief Financial Officer has requested you create a new vendor account
for Cardinal Properties.
In the following screen, leave Vendor blank, enter Company Code US00, US00
KRED
and Account group KRED. Enter Vendor number 105### (replace ### US00
with your assigned number) and Company Code US00 in the Reference
field.
Then, click on .
In the Create Vendor: Address view, enter Cardinal Properties ### as Cardinal Properties ###
###
Name, Search term ###, Postal code 55347, City Eden Prairie, Country Eden Prairie
US, Region MN under Street Address. Make sure English is selected as MN 55347, US
EN
language and click on three times.
In the Create Vendor: Accounting information Account view, enter your 11###5
Recon. Account 11###5 under Accounting Information. Then, click on .
In the Create Vendor: Payment transactions Accounting view, enter Payt 0001
Chk double inv.
Terms 0001, and select Chk double inv. Then, click on (Save).
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen.
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If Company Code US00 is not displayed use the Menu Entry Edit ► US00
Change company code (F7) to select your US GBI company. In the
Document Date field, use F4 and Enter to select today’s date and choose today’s date
USD
USD as Currency. As Reference, enter your three-digit number (###) and ###
as Doc.Header Text Transfer of Funds.
On the first line, enter your Bank Account 10###5 as G/L acct, choose 10###5
Debit
Debit as D/C and enter 5000 as Amount in doc.curr. 5000
On the second line, enter 100000 (Bank Account) as G/L acct, choose 100000
Credit
Credit as D/C and enter 5000 as Amount in doc.curr. 5000
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Click on (Back) once and accept any warning messages with Enter.
Then, click on (Post). The system will create a unique G/L account G/L account document
document number.
Click on the exit icon and acknowledge the warning message by YES
choosing YES – there will be no data lost. This brings you back to the SAP
Easy Access menu.
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To display a G/L account document, follow the menu path: Menu path
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Press Enter to go back to the Display Document: Data Entry View screen.
Then, click on the exit icon to go back to the SAP Easy Access menu.
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Enter your vendor number for Cardinal Properties (use the F4-Help with vendor number
today
search term ### if necessary), today as Invoice Date and $1,500 as $1,500
Amount of Invoice.
If your company code did not default in, select the following system menu
entry:
Edit ► Set Company Code
Then, enter your company code. US00
Enter your Expense Account 75###5, D/C Debit, Document amount 1,500, 75###5
Debit
Invoice Cardinal Rent Expenses-### in the Text column and Cost center $1500
NAHR2###. Remember to replace ### with your assigned number. Invoice Cardinal Rent
Expenses ###
Then, click on . NAHR2###
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen. Confirm
the warning with a click on yes.
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Task Display and review general ledger account balances. Time 5 min
Short Description Display and confirm the activity and associated balance for the rent expense
account used in the previous exercise.
Name (Position) Silvia Cassano (Accounts Payable Specialist)
To display ledger account balances, follow the menu path: Menu path
Enter Account number from 750005 to 759995, Company Code US00, and 75###5
US00
the current year as Fiscal Year. Then, click on to display balances. current year
Double click on month balance to see line items. You might see multiple of
the invoiced amount. Try to explain why.
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To achieve a better overview, you will remove unneeded columns from the
report. Start by clicking on , select the rows shown in the picture below
and click on .
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Review the entries of your document. To do so, click in the line with your
invoice and press .
Keep clicking on the exit icon until you return to the SAP Easy Access
screen.
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Task Display and review Accounts Payable balances and individual line items. Time 5 min
Short Description Display and confirm the activity and associated balance for the Accounts
Payable for Cardinal Properties. Note that this transaction is considered to be “open” which
means that payment has not been sent to Cardinal Properties as of this time.
Name (Position) Silvia Cassano (Accounts Payable Specialist)
To display Accounts Payable balances, follow the menu path: Menu path
Enter your vendor number for Cardinal Properties, Company code US00, Vendor number
US00
and the current year as Fiscal Year. Then, click on to display balances. current year
You can see that the document status is open, meaning your vendor has not
been paid yet.
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen.
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Enter current date as Document Date, your Bank Account 10###5, Current date
10###5 1500
Amount 1500, and Invoice HR-### as text. Invoice HR-###
Under Open items selection, enter as Account your vendor number for Vendor number
Cardinal Properties (use the F4 help if necessary) and leave all other
settings unchanged.
Select and review the line item information.
When assignment has been made correctly the ‘Not assigned’ value on the
bottom should equal $0.00.
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen. Confirm
the warning with a click on yes.
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Task Display and review General Ledger account balances. Time 5 min
Short Description Display and confirm the activity and associated balance for the account used
in the previous exercise.
Name (Position) Silvia Cassano (Accounts Payable Specialist)
To display G/L account balances, follow the menu path: Menu path
Enter your Account number 10###5, Company Code US00, and the 10###5
US00
current year as Fiscal Year. Then, click on . current year
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen.
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To display Accounts Payable balances, follow the menu path: Menu path
Enter your vendor number using the F4 help with search term ###, Search term ###
US00
Company code US00, and select all items. Then, click on . all items
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen.
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Task Use the SAP menu to run a trial financial statement. Time 5 min
Short Description Run a trial financial statement.
Name (Position) Shuyuan Chen (Chief Accountant)
Enter Chart of accounts GL00, Company code US00, Financial statement GL00 US00
G### current year
Version G###, and the current year as Reporting year. Choose ALV tree
control with the layout 1SAP for the list output. 1SAP
Then, click on .
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Depending on previously done exercises and case studies the value in your
statement will differ. You can find your bank account under Assets->Cash
& Cash Equivalents.
Click on the exit icon to return to the SAP Easy Access screen.
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