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SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes: Unofficial Certification and Review Guide
SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes: Unofficial Certification and Review Guide
SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes: Unofficial Certification and Review Guide
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Transaction codes are the key to working in the SAP R/3 and SAP ECC Finance and Controlling environments; however, a user-friendly and thorough resource can be difficult to locate. From helping you to locate a transaction you haven’t used in a while to helping you unlock new functionality in SAP R/3 FI, this guide has what
you need to work faster. In addition to acting as a handy reference, this guide will help you set yourself apart from other SAP professionals – knowing the right TCODE is often the difference between a mid-range and senior SAP resource. This book contains comprehensive transaction code listings for FI.

Whether you are new to SAP, or a veteran SAP project manager this book will come in handy. One
of a series of SAP transaction code books, SAP FICO Transaction Codes delivers. Includes 150+
pages of transaction codes and explanations for SAP Finance. The table of contents and index are also comprehensive, making it easy to find what you need and help you save precious time.

Key topics include:

FI Transaction Codes and Tables
SAP FICO Frequently Asked Questions

LanguageEnglish
PublisherEquity Press
Release dateDec 29, 2011
ISBN9781603322997
SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes: Unofficial Certification and Review Guide

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    SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes - Equity Press

    SAP ECC FI Transaction Codes

    Unofficial Certification and Review Guide

    Equity Press

    Compiled By Terry S. Clark

    ISBN 978-1-60332-299-7

    Smashwords Edition

    Edited By: Jamie Fisher

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    GENERAL QUESTIONS IN FICO

    Question 01: CO Enterprise Structure

    Question 02: Automatic account determination

    Question 03: Primary and Secondary cost element

    Question 04: Special GL and Noted Document

    Question 05: Group Chart of Account

    Question 06: Currencies in Company Code

    Question 07: Special posting period

    Question 08: Transport no ranges

    Question 09: Asset class

    Question 10: Account Group

    Question 11: Use of Alternative Account

    Question 12: Open Item Management

    Question 13: Identify target cost version

    Question 14: Parking of document

    Question 15: Low value assets

    Question 16: Alternative reconciliation account

    Question 17: Posting key and Field status group

    Question 18: Creating Vendor Invoice

    Question 19: Bank Reconciliation Statement

    Question 20: Document flow confusion

    Question 21: Change reconciliation account of customer master

    Question 22: Various postings to GL account

    Question 23: Creating new company code

    Question 24: APC

    Question 25: Cost center

    Question 26: Activate asset accounting in new company code

    Question 27: Middle of the year Asset data transfer

    Question 28: GRIR

    Question 29: Error as T880

    Question 30: House Banking

    Question 31: Interest calculation

    Question 32: Month end closing activities and post production issues in FI/CO

    Question 33: Costing variants

    Question 34: Using the Lock Box Files

    Question 35: Electronic Bank Statement

    CURRENCY CONVERSION

    Question 36: Currency conversion in BW

    Question 37: Convert in update rules

    Question 38: Start routine

    Question 39: Currency conversion

    Question 40: Currency conversion in a query

    Question 41: Foreign currency valuation

    Question 42: Currency conversion dependent on date

    Question 43: Currency Conversions

    Question 44: Currency exchange rate

    Question 45: Foreign Exchange (forex) transactions

    Question 46: Rate difference

    Question 47: Currency conversion issues

    Question 48: Foreign currency test scripts

    Question 49: Automatic outgoing program error

    Question 50: GR/IR tolerance for automatic clearing

    Question 51: Valuation methods

    Question 52: Currency conversions in BPS

    Question 53: Currency translation type not appearing in BEX

    Question 54: Exchange rate field for input in transactions

    GL ACCOUNTS

    Question 55: GL accounts

    Question 56: Transport GL Accounts

    Question 57: Mass blocking of GL accounts

    Question 58: Reconciliation & Alternate Reconciliation A/c

    Question 59: Open item issue

    Question 60: Alternative Reconciliation account

    Question 61: Automated payments

    Question 62: Vendor down payment made

    Question 63: Maintain Field Status Variants

    Question 64: Advance Payment to Vendors

    Question 65: Assigning material and GL to cost center

    Question 66: Configure FICO reconciliation

    Question 67: Configuration for Special Purpose Ledger

    Question 68: Cost elements not created for GL

    Question 69: Calculate bank interest

    Question 70: Special G/L transaction

    Question 71: GL Accounts not be displayed

    Question 72: Entries in particular Field in GL

    Question 73: New GL Account in ECC 5.0

    Question 74: Amount transfer from bank to bank

    CHART OF ACCOUNTS

    Question 75: Chart of Accounts

    Question 76: Transport of chart of accounts

    Question 77: Changing chart of accounts

    Question 78: Copy GL account from COA

    Question 79: Transporting COA, Cost Center & Profit Center Hierarchies

    Question 80: Create and assign multiple FS to CC

    Question 81: Operational chart of accounts issue

    COPA - Controlling and Profitability Analysis

    Question 82: Purpose of COPA

    Question 83: More on COPA

    Question 84: COPA tables

    Question 85: Adding Fields to COPA Data Source

    Question 86: COPA Extraction

    Question 87: Extraction steps

    Question 88: COPA does not reconcile between BW and R/3

    Question 89: Index use

    Question 90: Improve I/O

    Question 91: COPA delta

    Question 92: Billing issue

    Question 93: COPA Init Delta

    Question 94: Delete init request in COPA

    Question 95: COPA extraction delta failure

    Question 96: Data extraction for COPA pulling 0 records

    CREDIT MANAGEMENT

    Question 97: Credit management

    Question 98: Increase/Decrease credit limit

    Question 99: A/R - Credit Management for customers

    Question 100: Update Customer Credit Management

    Question 101: Mass update customer credit limit

    Question 102: Customer report with dr. balance only

    Question 103: Customer credit management change BO Required

    Question 104: Credit Block

    Acknowledgements and references

    Introduction

    SAP R/3 is the former name of the main ERP software produced by SAP. Its new name is mySAP ERP.

    SAP R/2 was a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was particularly popular with large multinational European companies who required soft-real-time business applications, with multi-currency and multi-language capabilities built in. With the advent of distributed client-server computing SAP AG brought out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Windows or UNIX since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.

    From the late 1960s to the 1980s there was a concern that software development was too complex and liable to go wrong. One of the solutions to this proposed by many people including Fred Brooks was the development of a modular approach in order to maximize software reuse and encapsulate common business processes within internal transactions. SAP introduced the object-oriented concept of business objects; for example, a customer in the system is actually an instantiation of a customer business object, and interacts with other objects in the system in a pre-defined (although customizable) way. In some ways, SAP can be almost thought of as an operating system for a business.

    SAP software comes with customizable processes which a company uses in the modelling of its business. Traditionally, software purchases had provided tools for building applications, but these tools did not provide business processes. SAP provided standardized processes, which were termed best-practice solutions of processes. The implementation of SAP software commonly required the expertise of knowledgeable external consultants, who were familiar with these best-practices.

    SAP R/3 is arranged into distinct functional modules, covering the typical functions in place in an organization. The most widely used modules are Financials and Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR), Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), and Production Planning (PP). Those modules, as well as the additional components of SAP R/3, are detailed in the next section.

    Each module handles specific business tasks on its own but is linked to the others where applicable. For instance, an invoice from the Billing transaction of Sales & Distribution will pass through to accounting, where it will appear in accounts receivable and cost of goods sold.

    SAP has typically focused on best practice methodologies for driving its software processes, but has more recently expanded into vertical markets. In these situations, SAP produces specialized modules (referred to as IS or Industry Specific) geared toward a particular market segment, such as utilities or retail.

    Using SAP often requires the payment of hefty license fees, as the customers have effectively outsourced various business software development tasks to SAP. By specializing in software development, SAP hopes to provide a better value to corporations than they could if they attempted to develop and maintain their own applications.

    SAP R/3 is a client/server based application, utilizing a 3-tiered model. A presentation layer, or client, interfaces with the user. The application layer houses all the business-specific logic, and the database layer records and stores all the information about the system, including transactional and configuration data.

    SAP R/3 functionality is structured using its own proprietary language called ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming). ABAP, or ABAP/4 is a fourth generation language (4GL), geared toward the creation of simple, yet powerful programs. R/3 also offers a complete development environment where developers can either modify existing SAP code to modify existing functionality or develop their own functions, whether reports or complete transactional systems within the SAP framework.

    ABAP's main interaction with the database system is via Open SQL statements. These statements allow a developer to query, update, or delete information from the database. Advanced topics include GUI development and advanced integration with other systems. With the introduction of ABAP Objects, ABAP provides the opportunity to develop applications with object-oriented programming.

    The most difficult part of SAP R/3 is its implementation simply because SAP R/3 is never used the same way in any two places. For instance, Atlas Copco can have a different implementation of SAP R/3 from Procter & Gamble and so forth. Two primary issues are the root of the complexity and of the differences:

    >Customization configuration - Within R/3, there are tens of thousands of database tables that may be used to control how the application behaves. For instance, each company will have its own accounting Chart of Accounts which reflects how its transactions flow together to represent its activity. That will be specific to a given company. In general, the behavior (and appearance) of virtually every screen and transaction is controlled by configuration tables. This gives the implementor great power to make the application behave differently for different environments and with that power comes considerable complexity.

    >Extensions, Bolt-Ons - In any company, there will be a need to develop interface programs to communicate with other corporate information systems. This generally involves developing ABAP/4 code, and considerable systems integration effort to either determine what data is to be drawn out of R/3 or to interface into R/3 to load data into the system.

    Due to the complexity of implementation, these companies recruit highly skilled SAP consultants to do the job. The implementation must consider the company's needs and resources. Some companies implement only a few modules of SAP while others may want numerous modules.

    SAP has several layers. The Basis System (BC) includes the ABAP programming language, and is the heart (i.e. the base) of operations and should not be visible to higher level or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the system (from a manager’s viewpoint) is the application modules. These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all related.

    This book will discuss the various issues commonly encountered by FICO users. It will also give readers a better understanding of these two modules, FI (Financial Accounting) and CO (Controlling) which are defined as follows.

    The SAP FI Module

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