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SAP financial accounting (FI) 101: Features, operation, and setup

30 training and empowerment tips for users who rely on SAP financial applications

A comprehensive guide to SAP financial ledgers: What each does and how to pick the right one

10 best practices for implementing the new G/L

The keys to successful document splitting in the new G/L

Streamline your time-to-close with the new G/L and new functions in mySAP ERP Financial Accounting

Simplify your bank processing with SAP EBS functionality

What every finance team now needs to know about FI and MM integration

Tips, tricks, and techniques to configure and optimize your SAP Credit Management system

Configure and customize SAP automatic credit management to work for you, not against you

Everything you ever wanted to know about SAP tables, but were afraid to ask

SAP financial accounting (FI) 101: Features, operation, and setup
This session delivers a comprehensive introduction to SAP functionality for core Financial Accounting (FI), including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), and the Special Purpose Ledger. It also offers a comprehensive introduction to SAP reporting options and the various ways you can extract and present financial information. Watch the video to:

  • Learn how to automate and track postings and create documents and reconciliations utilizing features within these areas.
  • Learn what the differences are between R/3® and mySAP ERP Central Component (ECC) functionality and what differentiates the new SAP General Ledger from older versions of the GL.
  • See how data flows in and out of these core application areas and how these financial functions work with other SAP application areas, including Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Project Systems (PS).

30 training and empowerment tips for users who rely on SAP financial applications
Get 30 tips that will accelerate your end-user training activities and that are proven to cut down on help desk calls and maximize end-user productivity. Watch this session to:

  • Identify key areas that need to be addressed when training end users to use SAP financials functionality: analysis, display, environment, and reporting.
  • Learn about productivity tools to help end user reporting including ALV and report trees.
  • Find out how end users can determine the status of SAP Financial Accounting (FI) documents on their own, including confirmation of a document’s reversal or clearance.
  • Learn how to enable end users to set key defaults for FI and how they can trace FI documents.
  • Identify the most frequently used codes by document type, such as G/L account document (SA), customer document (DA), and customer payment (KA), as well as posting keys (01, 31, 40, 50) to assist end users in quickly identifying the purpose of each posting.

A comprehensive guide to SAP financial ledgers: What each does and how to pick the right one
With more than a dozen options available in SAP for financial ledgers, picking the best solution to meet your needs can be challenging. Watch this session to:

  • Explore the different ledgers including the classic G/L, Special Purpose Ledger, and the Material Ledger, and get guidance to choose the best one for the task at hand.
  • Learn how to properly account for key decision criteria including data storage, reporting and training requirements, and your current R/3 release level.
  • Find out which ledgers you can and should use for consolidation processes and which can be used for business segment reporting.
  • Understand the impact of whether or not you’re currently running SAP BW or SAP NetWeaver® BI on your overall G/L reporting capabilities.

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  • Get 10 best practices for implementing the new G/L and maximizing your investment.
  • Pinpoint the differences between the traditional G/L in SAP R/3 and mySAP ERP 2004 and 2005, and explore how the new functionality can streamline your organization’s financial processes.
  • Weigh implementation considerations to reduce risk, including master and organizational data management, transactional data integrity, and financial reporting compliance.
  • Get real-world insights into how other SAP customers have implemented the new G/L, which new G/L functionality they utilize, and how they leverage the parallel ledger to streamline their time-to-close.
  • Prepare for implementation challenges.
  • Find out how to ensure data and process integrity by avoiding an incorrect parallel ledger setup and incomplete or false segment definition.

The keys to successful document splitting in the new G/L
There are many changes in document splitting in the new G/L (available in mySAP ERP Financials) compared to the classic G/L in R/3. Watch this session to:

  • Step through critical considerations for evaluating document splitting in the new G/L and determine how it fits into the scope of your new G/L implementation.
  • Get comprehensive guidance on document splitting functionality and its place in A/P, A/R, fixed asset, and general accounting processes.
  • Learn how to attain full financial statements at the segment and profit center levels.
  • Navigate document splitting configuration of key elements including defining G/L accounts and document types for splitting and defining characteristics and splitting rules.
  • Review two different approaches to implementation and evaluate whether document splitting on characteristics, such as profit centers or segments, is right for your company.
  • See the key configuration steps for document splitting using segments as an example.
  • View a demo of document splitting in action including a journal entry posting, an A/P invoice posting, and new G/L reporting functionality, including trial balance and financial statements from an existing customer implementation.

Streamline your time-to-close with the new G/L and new functions in mySAP ERP Financial Accounting
See how new functions and a simplified data structure in mySAP ERP can streamline your period-end close, save time, eliminate errors, and provide a strong foundation for financial and management reporting. Watch this session to:

  • Explore specific closing tasks that mySAP ERP functionality allows you to eliminate and speed the close process — e.g.: you can eliminate reconciliation ledger postings by enabling real-time CO to FI integration.
  • Find out how you can eliminate P&L and balance sheet adjustment postings using new G/L functionality such as online splitting.
  • Learn how to eliminate accounts receivable and payable transfer postings to Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) by using new G/L segment reporting functionality.
  • Obtain a simplified overview of your company’s entire closing process via the closing cockpit.
  • Receive expert tips on how to speed up the intra-group reconciliation process by using cross-system, inter-company reconciliation functionality.
  • Walk through the five steps required to successfully setup the Closing Cockpit and inter-company reconciliation tool.

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  • Find out how to utilize electronic bank statement functionality in SAP to save you time and prevent costly errors.
  • Learn how to set up and configure Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) in SAP R/3 and walk through key details of its functionality.
  • Learn how to overcome system limitations and improve your hit rate, and discover how to modify the system to handle VAT taxes more efficiently.
  • Get tips and tricks for deriving the correct invoice number when you do not have it.
  • Avoid common errors including defining cost centers automatically for missing invoices.
  • Find out how you can reduce work for the post-processing of electronic bank statements.

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What every finance team now needs to know about FI and MM integration
Put an end to the perennial battle between Financial Accounting (FI) and Materials Management (MM) functional analysts over the responsibility of FI/MM integration configuration. Watch this session to:

  • Empower your FI team and take control of the critical configuration and integration points between these areas to ensure clean postings in General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL).
  • Examine the fields that drive the FI postings made by MM transactions and learn about key tables in this configuration.
  • Learn about a secret table in the link from MM to FI and find out why table T030 is so important.
  • Learn the differences between Sales and Distribution (SD) delivery, MM transfers, and purchase order (PO) goods receipts.
  • Delve into the three key sources of material movement postings that affect FI-GL: deliveries, goods receipts, and plant material movements.
  • Find out how FI and MM can get out of sync, how to detect potential problems, and how to troubleshoot the modules to get them back on track.

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  • Explore the intricacies of setting up key SAP Credit Management options, including insights on how to handle multiple scenarios for SD credit updates, such as delivery-related versus order-related updates and how to calculate credit exposure for each.
  • Learn why and how to differentiate a dynamic from a static credit check.
  • Get an overview of how Credit Management integrates with upstream logistics processes in both Service Management and SD modules (e.g., availability check function).
  • Examine SAP tables, user exits, and reports that are crucial for credit control and analysis.
  • Review configuration and support considerations related to running SAP Credit Management in a global environment.
  • Get tips to troubleshoot, analyze errors, and reorganize credit data when necessary.

Configure and customize SAP automatic credit management to work for you, not against you
Get a detailed roadmap of how to configure and customize the automatic credit management functionality in R/3 and mySAP ERP. Watch this session to:

  • Learn how to set and move tolerance levels so that you can pass or block sales orders and/or deliveries automatically based on specific benchmarks.
  • Receive tips and tricks for using these settings to control system behavior for customers whose credit status you no longer trust.
  • Review key principles and best practices for credit management organization, credit limits, credit exposure calculation, and customer groupings.
  • Walkthrough the key steps to configure Automatic Credit Management and gain an understanding of the impact of configuration settings during the design phase.
  • Avoid configuration pitfalls, such as setting too many flags or thresholds that are too low, that may slow key business processes and require too much manual intervention.
  • Gather best practices for mitigating these types of risks during system design and setup.
  • Get all the tools and tips you need to implement Automatic Credit Management at your company.

Everything you ever wanted to know about SAP tables, but were afraid to ask
For those new to SAP, and even for those who consider themselves experts, SAP tables can be enigmatic. Watch this session to:

  • Expand your knowledge of tables in SAP and what you can do with them.
  • Explore transactions you can use to customize and analyze specific tables.
  • Get a multitude of proven tips related to transactionsSE11, SE16, and SM30 that will help you find check-tables, create reports, and find transparent tables used by structures.
  • Learn the best ways to take advantage of table reporting and Quick Viewer functionality without a lengthy and costly development process.
  • Learn how the new G/L affects the tables related to finance — including new table names and tables that will become obsolete.
  • Get a comprehensive understanding of essential Financial Accounting (FI) tables and the toolsets you’ll use to deal with them, including analyzing content, understanding their relation to configuration, and the function of tables in writing Quick View reports.

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