Steps of SAP FI configuration
The following are the general stpes for configuration of SAP FI Module :
- Introduction to SAP R/3
- Introduction to ERP, Advantages of SAP over other ERP Packages
- Overview of SAP architecture
- Introduction to SAP R/3 FI Module
- Introduction to User Interface
- Basic Settings of FI Module - we can call 'Organisational Structure'
- Define Company
- Define Company Code
- Assignment of company to company code
- Defining Business area
- Defining Fiscal year variant
- Assignment of Fiscal Year variant to company code
- Defining posting period variant
- Assignment of Posting period variant to company code
- Open and close posting period
- Defining document type & number ranges
- Maintenance of Field status variants
- Assignment of field status variant to company code
- Defining tolerance groups for GL accounts
- Defining tolerance groups for employees
- Assignment of tolerance groups to users
- Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)
- Creation of chart of Accounts
- Defining Accounts Groups
- Defining Retained Earnings Account.
- General Ledger Accounting:
- Creation of General Ledger Master (with and with out reference)
- Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
- Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference
- Display and change of documents
- Display of GL balances
- Display GL account line items
- Parked documents
- Hold documents
- Creation of Sample Document and postings with sample documents
- Defining recurring entry document and postings with recurring doc.
- Creation of account assignment model and posting
- Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items
- Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal , reversal of cleared items and reversal of accrual and deferral documents
- Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation ratios
- Define Exchange rates & posting of foreign currency transactions
- Interest calculations on term loans
- Accrual and Deferral documents
- Accounts Payable
- Creation of vendor account groups
- creation of number ranges for vendor master records
- assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups
- Creation of tolerance group for venders
- Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
- Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)
- Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment against invoices (special GL transactions)
- Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment
- Creation of payment terms,
- Creation of house banks and account ids.
- Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
- display check register
- cancellation of un issued checks
- creation of void reasons
- cancellation of issued checks
- posting of purchase returns
- Configuration of automatic payment program
- Payment to vendors through APP
- Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts
- Accounts receivable:
- Creation of customer account groups
- creation of number ranges for customer master records
- assignment of number ranges for customer account groups
- Creation of tolerance group for customers
- Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
- Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)
- Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)
- Configuration of settings for dunning
- generating the dunning letters
- defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
- Bills of exchange
- posting of sales returns
- Asset Accounting
- Defining chart of depreciation
- creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased
- assignment of chart of depreciation to company code
- Defining account determination
- Defining screen lay out rules
- Defining number ranges for asset classes
- Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
- Defining Depreciation key
- Defining multilevel methods
- Defining period control methods
- creation main asset master records
- creation sub asset master records
- Acquisition of fixed assets
- Sale of fixed assets
- Transfer of assets
- Scrapping of assets,
- Depreciation run
- Line item Settlement of assets under construction of capital work in progress
- New General ledger accounting:
- Parallel ledgers
- document splitting
- Segments.
- Reports
- Financial statement version
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Assets Reports