COURSE CURRICULUM SAP FICO TRAINING

About the Course

​SAP is one of the biggest players in the enterprise software application industry which is aimed at superior
enterprise resource planning. SAP is the abbreviation for Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.
SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) is one of the most broadly used SAP modules. SAP FICO module includes SAP
FICO configuration, SAP CO configuration, SAP FI user, and SAP CO user. Taking up an SAP FICO certification is the
first step towards beginning a career as an SAP FICO consultant. The different parts of the SAP FI and SAP CO
modules are essential to building the skill sets of an SAP FICO consultant or professional.

Approach to this Course

The training would be provided keeping in mind the target audience. The audience might be an amalgam of
functional as well as technical consultants (based on our previous experiences)

Few of the participants may already know the basics of SAP FICO, others might not. From day 1. The primary focus
of the training would be to clear the concepts first followed by taking a deep dive into the hands-on session. The
hands-on sessions and assignments will help participants work in real-life scenarios and clear their doubts on the
fly.

Other Deliverables:
1. Each participant of this training will be provided with all the training course material which includes Session
ppts, Labs, Assignments, and Assessments.
2. The trainer will go through each topic in detail and show it Live on the system and at the end of the training go
through the labs with the participants.
3. For practice, access to the Tenant will be provided for each participant and the instruction on How to install
and configure will be shown Live in class
4. Zoom Webinar will be used to conduct these sessions Live. And each participant will have the option to chat as
well in the session with the trainer and Raise hand for questions without disturbing the class.
5. The training would be provided keeping in mind the target audience.

Prerequisite:
Participants do not require any specific requirements to take up this course except a basic background in
information technology.

Course Duration - 60 Hours(60 hours will be instructions + theory + labs)

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Course Curriculum

Part A – Financial Accounting

Chapter 1 – Introduction to SAP R/3

1. Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages
2. Introduction to SAP R/3 FICO
3. Landscape and multi-client concept
4. Transport request creation, modification, status, types, release, transport
5. Difference between R/1, R/2 and R/3
6. Types of messages
7. 4 C’s

Chapter 2 – Financial Accounting Basic Settings (Organization Structure)

1. Definition of company
2. Definition of company code
3. Assignment of the company to company code
4. Definition of business area
5. Define chart of accounts
6. Assign chart of accounts to company code
7. Define account groups
8. Define Retained earnings account
9. Define Fiscal year variant and shortened fiscal year
10. Assign fiscal year variant to company code
11. Define field status variants
12. Assignment of field status variant to company code
13. Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts
14. Definition of tolerance groups for employees
15. Assignment of tolerance groups to users
16. Define document types
17. Define posting period variant
18. Assign posting period variant to company code
19. Open/close posting period variant
20. Global parameters
21. Organization structure in EC01
22. Sort key configuration in OB16

Chapter 3 – General Ledger Accounting

1. Creation of General Ledger Master FS00/FSP0/FSS0 (with and without reference)
2. Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
3. Document Entry posting (F-02/FB50/FB01) and posting with reference
4. Display and change of documents, editable fields

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5. Display of GL balances reports

6. Display GL account line items report
7. Parked documents
8. Hold documents
9. Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents
10. Handling prepaid expenses (prepaid insurance and accrued income) with recurring documents
11. Changing line layouts for the display of GL line items, variant creation, dynamic selections
12. Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal, reversal of cleared items, and reversal of accrual
documents
13. Accrual and Deferral document
14. Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation
15. Open item management, Types of clearing – standard, partial, residual
16. Account clearing F-03 and posting with clearing F-07 differences with GL tolerances OBXZ
17. GL open item and cleared item tables, transaction, and master data table
18. Interest calculations on term loans
19. Foreign currency revaluation for open items (F-07) and balances FAGL_FC_VAL, Posting Realized gains/losses
on open items
20. Account assignment model FKMT
21. Mass changes in line item report
22. Types of chart of accounts and reporting F.01
23. Options from the selection parameter screen, editing options

Chapter 4 – Accounts Payable

1. Creation of vendor account groups
2. Creation of number ranges for vendor master records
3. Assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for vendors
5. Creation of vendor master XK01/FK01/MK01 (display/change/block/unblock of vendor master), sensitive
fields in master data, and confirmation FK08
6. Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo), Account clearing, and
posting with clearing on vendor
7. Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices
(special GL transactions)
8. Vendor tolerances gain/loss postings OBXL
9. Creation of payment terms and cash discounts with installments
10. Automatic payment program configuration with SEPA format
11. Bank master data and house banks
12. F110 execution – main bank posting from F110 and bank clearing account posting from F110 and related
tables
13. DME files creation in XML and txt format and understanding DME structure in DMEE with GDFF file with
AL11 path
14. Payment advice generation, payment advice by email, payment summary generation
15. Reversal of payment documents
16. Vendor clearing – standard, partial and residual

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17. Check payment method and create checks manually F-58 and automatically and printing
18. Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
19. Check encashment dates
20. Cancellation of unissued checks and issued checks
21. Creation of void reasons
22. Cancel payment, delete for payment run
23. Deleting manual checks and voided checks
24. Real-time scenarios on APP - partial payments, foreign currencies
25. Real-time scenarios on APP – payment method supplement, partner bank type, payment from multiple
house banks to different invoices
26. Intercompany payments and trading partner – manual and automatic
27. Tables and reports in AP and APP (REGU*)
28. ACH/Direct debit
29. Payment order
30. Foreign currency revaluation on vendor and differences between realized and unrealized gain/loss
31. Different payment methods to vendors including Idocs

Chapter 5 – Accounts Receivable

1. Creation of customer account groups
2. Creation of number ranges for customer master records
3. Assignment of number ranges for customer account groups
4. Creation of tolerance group for customers
5. Creation of customer master XD01/FD01/VD01 (display/change/block/unblock of vender master),
sensitive fields
6. Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo), Account clearing
and posting with clearing
7. Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)
8. Configuration of settings for dunning and dunning letters emailing to customers
9. Cash discounts
10. APP configuration for customers
11. Customer clearing – standard, partial and residual
12. Master data and transaction tables (open and cleared item) and reports
13. Customer line item interest calculation
14. Customer tolerances OBXL
15. Invoice or statement printing/correspondence - FB12 and F.64

Chapter 6 – Bank Accounting

1. Electronic bank statement (EBS): Configuration and execution MT940
with the main bank and alternative bank account
2. EBS – Bank charges, Bank interest, and tax code posting with search string
3. Auto Lockbox: Configuration and execution
4. SAP query
5. Cash journal

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Chapter 7 – Data Migration

1. LSMW (asset, vendor, customer, and GL master data)
2. BDC (transaction data)

Chapter 8 – Asset Accounting

1. Defining chart of depreciation
2. Creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased
3. Assignment of chart of depreciation to company code
4. Defining account determination
5. Definition of screen layout rules
6. Definition of number ranges for asset classes
7. Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
8. Defining Depreciation key
9. Definition of multilevel methods
10. Definition of period control methods
11. Creation of main asset master records
12. Creation of sub-asset master records
13. Acquisition of fixed assets
14. Sale of fixed assets
15. Transfer of assets
16. Scrapping of assets,
17. Depreciation run
18. Line item Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress
19. Year-end activities
20. Asset mass changes
21. Tables and reports
22. Asset history report, Asset explorer, and Asset documents
23. Asset impairment/revaluation
24. Master data and transaction data table
25. Asset shut down
26. Manual depreciation
27. Unplanned depreciation/missed depreciation
28. Depreciation with a repeat run
29. Asset evaluation groups

Chapter 9 – New General Ledger Accounting

1. Parallel ledgers
2. Document splitting

Chapter 10 – Reports
1. Financial statement version (FSV)

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Part B – Controlling

Chapter 1 – Basic Settings for Controlling

1. Defining Controlling Area
2. Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
3. Maintain Planning versions

Chapter 2 – Cost Element Accounting

1. Creation of primary cost elements from FI and CO
2. Manual and automatic creation of cost elements
3. Display of cost element master records
4. Change cost element master records
5. Primary cost element categories
6. Secondary cost element categories
7. Default account assignments

Chapter 3 – Cost Center Accounting

1. Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups

2. Display, change cost center master records
3. Creation of cost center groups
4. Actual posting to cost centers
5. Reposting of co-line items
6. Cost center hierarchy
7. Planning for cost centers
8. Actual and variance report

Chapter 4 – Period – end activities

1. Statistical Key figure
2. Creation and execution of Distribution Cycle with/without SKF
3. Creation and execution of Assessment cycles with/without SKF
4. Creation and execution of Actual periodic reposting

Chapter 5 – Internal Orders

1. Defining order types
2. Creation of internal order master records
3. Display internal order master records
4. Change internal order master records
5. Postings to internal orders
6. Planning for internal orders
7. Reposting co-line items for internal orders
8. Repost of costs for internal orders
9. Report of Variance analysis for internal orders
10. Creation of real internal orders

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11. Posting of business transactions to real orders

12. Definition of allocation structures
13. Definition of settlement profiles
14. Definition of planning profiles
15. Settlement of real internal orders
16. Budgeting and availability control
17. Maintain number ranges for budgeting
18. Define tolerances for availability control
19. Budget manager
20. SAP business workplace

Chapter 6 – Profit Center Accounting

1. Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting

2. Creation of Dummy Profit Centers
3. Maintenance of control parameters for actual postings
4. Maintaining planning versions for-profit centers
5. maintaining the number ranges for-profit center documents
6. Creation of profit center master records
7. Display of profit center master records
8. Changing the profit center master records
9. Creation of revenue cost elements
10. Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
11. Assignment of profit centers in cost center master records
12. Creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
13. Planning for profit and loss account items
14. Planning for balance sheet items
15. Posting of transactions into profit centers
16. Generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items
17. Generating the variance reports for balance sheet items.

Chapter 7 – Profitability Analysis

1. Maintaining the operating concern

2. Define profitability segment characteristics
3. Assignment of controlling area to operating concern
4. Activating the profitability analysis
5. Define number ranges for actual postings
6. Mapping of SD conditions types to COPA value fields
7. Report painter - Creation and execution of reports in CoPA with Sales, CoGS, and Discount and Freight
value fields
8. PA transfer structure
9. CoPA document generation from FI
10. CoPA assessment

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Part C – Product Costing

Chapter 1 – Product Cost Planning

1. Creation of bill materials

2. Creation of activity type master records
3. Planning for activity hours
4. Activity type price calculation
5. Creation of work center master records
6. Creation of routings
7. Defining cost sheet (overhead structures)
8. Assignment of cost sheet to costing variant
9. Creation of cost estimate with quantity structure
10. Marking
11. Releasing and price change document
12. Creation of cost estimate with quantity structure
13. Creation of cost estimate without quantity structure
14. Cost estimate for multiple materials
15. Cost estimate reorganization

Part D – Integration
Chapter 1 – Integration of financial accounting with materials management:

1. Definition of organizational units in materials management i.e. plant, storage location and purchase
organization
2. Assignment of organizational units to each other
3. Definition of tolerance groups for purchase orders
4. Definition of tolerance groups for goods receipt
5. Definition of tolerance groups for invoice verification
6. Definition of vendor-specific tolerances
7. Creation, display, and change of material master record
8. Creation of plant parameters
9. Maintenance of posting periods for materials management
10. Maintenance of parameters for invoice verification
11. Maintenance of plant parameters for inventory management and physical inventory
12. Definition of attributes for material types
13. Assignment of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting (Integration of MM with FI)
14. Creation of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification, and Goods issue for production
with planned freight FRA2 and unplanned delivery costs and discounts
15. Price control – standard and moving average with postings
16. Price differences posting to PRD
17. GR/IR clearing from F.13 with automatic clearing (automatic clearing criteria OB74)

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18. Stock report MB5B

19. Invoice reversal MR8M
20. MM Pricing procedure

Chapter 2 – Integration of financial accounting with sales and distribution:

1. Definition of sales organization

2. Definition of distribution channels
3. Definition of divisions
4. Assignment among various organizational units in SD
5. Definition of partner functions
6. Definitions of the shipping points and loading points
7. Definition of pricing procedures
8. Determining the shipping points
9. Determining the pricing procedures
10. Maintenance of SD condition types
11. Maintenance of condition records
12. Assignment of GL accounts for sales transactions (integration of FI with SD)
13. Creation of sales order
14. Initialization of stock
15. Posting the delivery of goods
16. Creating the sales invoice.
17. SD pricing procedure Discounts K007, Freight condition types

Chapter 3 – Validations & Substitutions

1. Line item level

2. Header level

Chapter 4 – Sales Tax

1. Input tax
2. Output tax
3. Sales tax procedure

Chapter 5 – Year-End closing and month-end closing

1. GL balances carry forward

2. AP and AR balances carry forward
3. Special period posting
Concept of Trading partner
MASS maintenance (MASS)
Job scheduling in SM37
Idocs:
1. Structure of an Idoc

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2. AL11 path, Uploading and downloading files from AL11

3. Testing and copying an Idoc
4. Reprocessing an Idoc

Chapter 6 – ASAP Methodology

1. Phases in ASAP methodology

2. Project plan
Chapter 7 – Real-time Documentation

1. Business Blueprint (BBP)

2. Estimate
3. High-level design
4. Functional specifications
5. Test script
6. UAT
7. Agile methodology

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