Mastering Sap R 3 Fi Transaction Made Easy

This is an up-to-date "quick reference guide" for an easy, fast, and convenient way of learning SAP R/3 Financial transactions(v.4.6C & 4.7). The book is a ready reference on "transactions" made accessible by looking at transaction codes that are logically and conveniently arranged under various functional areas within FI. The coverage includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Asset Accounting. A miscellaneous chapter covers configuring essential items like document number ranges, exchange rate maintenance, and payment term configuration. FEATURES +Compatible.

"This book is insightful and thought-provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BW individual." —Richard M. Dunning, Chair, American SAP Users Group Written by the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive guide shows you how to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) and create useful applications for business analysis of company-wide data. You'll quickly learn how to design, build, analyze, and administer the data and information in the SAP BW component. The authors present the material in a way that reflects the process an organization goes through during a software implementation. They begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence, helping you determine if SAP BW is right for your organization. The book then focuses on the business content and options available when trying to deliver value from the data stored in the SAP BW. And it includes a methodology for implementing the BW, such as data modeling and techniques for capturing and transforming data. With this book, you'll discover the options available in SAP BW 3.0 and explore a new way to drive business performance. It will show you how to: Tackle such challenges as eliminating poor data quality Develop an information model in order to properly deploy SAP BW Utilize ETL, data storage, information access, analysis, and presentation services Schedule, monitor, archive, and troubleshoot data loads Effectively plan and manage the performance of a data warehouse The companion Web site provides useful guides and templates for configuring your system, industry case studies, and additional updates.

This bestselling author demystifies the latest version of SAP Financial Accounting (FI) through an innovative and easy-to-understand Q & A format, using 440 + questions and over 180 illustrations and screenshots. The book explains the important concepts / terms used in FI, provides you with several consulting, configuration, and usage tips on a variety of application components within FI. Separate chapters on SAP FI Tables and SAP FI Transaction Codes will help you navigate this complex software. This book will be an invaluable guide to everyone in the SAP community: beginners, end-users, programmers, and trainers. Features: * Features an easy-to-understand Q & A format with configuration / consulting / usage tips * Includes screen-shots from the latest version of SAP ERP, separate chapters on SAP FI Transaction Codes and SAP FI Tables * Uses over 450 questions, 200 screen shots and illustrations, 430 FI transactions, and 195 SAP FI tables to help master this complex software * Includes companion files with FI templates, short cuts, and figures (including 4 color) from the book

SAP ERP modules are notoriously hard to configure and use effectively without a lot of practice and experience. But as SAP ERP Financial Accounting and Controlling: Configuration and Use Management shows, it doesn't have to be so difficult. The book takes a systematic approach that leads SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO) users step by step through configuring and using all the program’s facets. This approach makes configuration complexities manageable. The book’s author—SAP expert, trainer, and accountant Andrew Okungbowa—ensures that both you and your end users are up and running quickly and confidently with FICO. He also provides sound and tested procedures that ensure your implementation works without error. SAP ERP Financial Accounting and Controlling: Configuration and Use Management is in fact the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow SAP FICO configuration book in the market. It incorporates a hands-on approach, with hundreds of screen shots and practical examples, that allows a person without prior configuration training to make SAP FICO ready for use in the enterprise. You’ll find that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to grasp the concepts explained and apply them to your work—even when the finances are complicated, such as with the ins and outs of taxes, currency conversions, or special general ledger entries such as down payments or bills of exchange. Providing an in-depth coverage of both configuration and end user procedures, the book covers most aspects of the SAP FICO certification syllabus—SAP’s view of the module’s key tasks and procedures—including: Configuring and using the general ledger and accounts payable and receivable screens Configuring and completing closing procedures, asset accounting, and financial reporting Configuring global settings and enterprise variables Accounting for both profit and cost centers Creating a house bank Integrating FICO with other SAP modules Taking a jargon-free tone and providing an abundance of examples, Andrew Okungbowa provides a clear understanding of configuration techniques and the breadth of functionalities encompassed by SAP FICO. And as an accountant, Okungbowa understands the needs of end users as well as of those answering to the CIO.