
Account Determination in SAP
Learn important account determination techniques
Manish Patel(Author)
SAP PRESS
2nd Edition
Published on 26. December 2011
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-1-59229-382-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a clear and practical Essentials guide that teaches you how to configure account determination in SAP ERP. You'll learn about the various account determination techniques in each component for generating General Ledger postings, including AR/AP, tax transactions, bank transactions, human capital management, and materials management. The Work provides step-by-step instructions on how to configure account determination, and in this new edition, each chapter provides real-world examples, business processes and scenarios, useful screenshots, and practical tips to help you understand and master account determination. If you're responsible for implementing the account determination functionality, this is your one-stop, must-have guide.
Highlights:
Account determination techniques
General Ledger transactions
Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable transactions
Tax transactions
Bank transactions
Asset transactions
Travel expense transactions
Sales and purchasing
Inventory transactions
Payroll transactions
Technical references
Tips and tricks
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bonn
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 17.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-59229-382-7 (9781592293827)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Author
Manish Patel is a senior SAP professional with close to 20 years of experience in the IT industry. After graduating from Bombay University, Manish worked at an Indian software company on various financials projects in Asia Pacific. During his tenure at this company, he gained experience as a finance lead responsible for implementing the company's indigenously developed ERP system.
After forming his solid foundation at this company in the various areas of software development and project management, he started his career as an SAP consultant. Over last 15 years, he has worked on variety of SAP projects in number of different industries. He has also conducted several successful SAP trainings at various training locations of SAP America. This breadth of assignments honed his abilities to successfully perform different roles in an SAP project ranging from system configuration to project management.
He is also the author of a best selling book SAP Account Determination published by SAP Press, targeted at the technical and consulting SAP community. The book explores vital design elements that carry out automatic determination of GL accounts from business transactions in various SAP components.
Manish enjoys working through the challenges and complexities that are inherent in implementation of such an enterprise wide system. He understands that experiences and aftereffects of such implementations can range from justifiably thrilling to maddeningly frustrating. Hence, he thrives in contributing to ease transition of SAP users into the new, integrated world of SAP. This book is an attempt to ease such transition
Manish enjoys living in the sunny California, USA. He can be reached on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kreativemanish
Content
1 ... Overview ... 15
... 1.1 ... Chart of Accounts ... 15
... 1.2 ... General Ledger Account Master ... 20
... 1.3 ... Account Determination Techniques ... 25
... 1.4 ... Summary ... 31
... 1.5 ... Reference ... 32
2 ... General Ledger Transactions ... 35
... 2.1 ... Foreign Currency Transactions ... 35
... 2.2 ... Other General Ledger Transactions ... 41
... 2.3 ... Accrual Transactions ... 49
... 2.4 ... Summary ... 53
... 2.5 ... Reference ... 54
3 ... Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Transactions ... 57
... 3.1 ... Reconciliation Accounts ... 58
... 3.2 ... Basic Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Transactions ... 63
... 3.3 ... Payment Card Accounts ... 72
... 3.4 ... Interest Calculation ... 75
... 3.5 ... Summary ... 80
... 3.6 ... Reference ... 80
4 ... Tax Transactions ... 83
... 4.1 ... Account Determination Objects ... 84
... 4.2 ... General Ledger Account Determination ... 87
... 4.3 ... Other Relevant Information ... 95
... 4.4 ... Withholding Tax ... 97
... 4.5 ... Summary ... 100
... 4.6 ... Reference ... 100
5 ... Bank Transactions ... 103
... 5.1 ... House Bank and Other Subaccounts ... 103
... 5.2 ... Account Determination Objects ... 105
... 5.3 ... General Ledger Account Determination in Banking Processes ... 109
... 5.4 ... Bill of Exchange Transactions ... 117
... 5.5 ... Summary ... 121
... 5.6 ... Reference ... 121
6 ... Asset Transactions ... 123
... 6.1 ... Account Determination Objects ... 123
... 6.2 ... General Ledger Account Determination ... 131
... 6.3 ... Summary ... 143
... 6.4 ... Reference ... 143
7 ... Travel Expense Transactions ... 147
... 7.1 ... Account Determination Objects ... 147
... 7.2 ... General Ledger Account Determination ... 159
... 7.3 ... Summary ... 166
... 7.4 ... Reference ... 167
8 ... Sales and Purchasing ... 169
... 8.1 ... Sales (Order-to-Cash) ... 170
... 8.2 ... Purchasing (Procure-to-Pay) ... 184
... 8.3 ... Summary ... 190
... 8.4 ... Reference ... 190
9 ... Inventory Transactions ... 193
... 9.1 ... Material Valuation ... 193
... 9.2 ... Account Determination Objects ... 196
... 9.3 ... General Ledger Account Determination--Procurement ... 204
... 9.4 ... General Ledger Account Determination--Revaluation and Other Accounts ... 214
... 9.5 ... Summary ... 220
... 9.6 ... Reference ... 220
10 ... Payroll Transactions ... 225
... 10.1 ... Account Determination Objects ... 226
... 10.2 ... General Ledger Account Determination ... 236
... 10.3 ... Other Transactions ... 241
... 10.4 ... Summary ... 243
... 10.5 ... Reference ... 244
... 10.6 ... Conclusion ... 246
... Appendices ... 247
... A ... Field Status Group ... 249
... B ... Validations and Substitutions ... 255
... C ... The Author ... 263
... Index ... 265