
Discover SAP ERP Financials
Manish Patel(Author)
SAP PRESS
2nd Edition
Published on 27. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
604 pages
978-1-59229-429-9 (ISBN)
Description
You know that business financials are an essential part of every business, large or small, but do you how SAP ERP Financials can make it easier? From basic accounting and complex financial audits to reporting, SAP ERP Financials offers vast, diverse and customizable solutions. This title offers a very detailed, reader-friendly reference that will give you an in-depth overview of the key components of SAP ERP Financials. Perfect for new users, decision-makers, and power users, with this title you will learn how to improve your efficiency in key financial areas, including profitability analysis, financial supply chain management, cost-accounting, and more. Updated for SAP ERP 6.0, EhP 5 and 6 with an expanded focus on real world scenarios.
Highlights Include:
Account receivables and payables
Investment management
Financial closing
Travel Management
Payroll accounting
Consolidation
Overhead cost management
Project accounting
Product costing
Financial planning
Profitability analysis
Credit, collections, and dispute management
Treasury and risk management
Account determination
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bonn
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 17.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-59229-429-9 (9781592294299)
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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 after-effects 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
Acknowledgments ... 17
Preface ... 19
1. Overview ... 27
What Does SAP ERP Financials Offer You? ... 29
Where Can You Use SAP ERP Financials? ... 32
2. General Ledger ... 39
Overview ... 40
Functions in Detail ... 41
Summary ... 71
3. Receivables and Payables ... 73
Overview ... 73
Functions in Detail ... 76
Summary ... 106
4. Taxation ... 107
Overview ... 108
Functions in Detail ... 109
Case Study ... 135
Summary ... 139
5. Bank Accounting ... 141
Overview ... 142
Bank Accounting Functions ... 142
Case Study ... 173
Summary ... 176
6. Capitalization of Investments ... 177
Overview ... 178
Functions in Detail ... 180
Case Study ... 211
Summary ... 215
7. Travel Management ... 217
Overview ... 218
Functions in Detail ... 220
Case Study ... 241
Summary ... 244
8. Payroll Accounting ... 247
Overview ... 248
Functions in Detail ... 250
Case Study ... 277
Summary ... 281
9. Consolidation ... 283
Overview ... 284
Functions in Detail ... 285
Case Study ... 312
Summary ... 315
10. Overhead Cost Controlling ... 317
Overview ... 318
Functions in Detail ... 320
Case Study ... 345
Summary ... 348
11. Project Accounting ... 351
Overview ... 351
Functions in Detail ... 353
Case Study ... 379
Summary ... 383
12. Product Costing ... 385
Overview ... 386
Functions in Detail ... 387
Case Study ... 419
Summary ... 421
13. Profitability Analysis ... 423
Overview ... 423
Functions in Detail ... 425
Case Study ... 452
Summary ... 455
14. Financial Planning ... 457
Overview ... 458
Functions in Detail ... 460
Case Study ... 482
Summary ... 484
15. Collections, Dispute, and Credit Management ... 487
Overview ... 488
Functions in Detail ... 490
Case Study ... 511
Summary ... 515
16. Cash and Liquidity Management ... 517
Overview ... 518
Functions in Detail ... 520
Case Study ... 539
Summary ... 543
17. Treasury and Risk Management ... 545
Overview ... 546
Functions in Detail ... 547
Summary ... 576
Appendices ... 577
A ... The Author ... 577
B ... Glossary ... 579
Index ... 589