SIMPLE FINANCE

Who Can Choose The Course:

Course Content:

Overview of SAP HANA:

  • What is SAP HANA
  • Why you need HANA
  • How it was done before
  • How it works now in HANA
  • Data Replication in HANA

HANA Deployment Options and 

Architecture:

HANA Deployment Options

•  On-Premise Deployment
•  Difference between the two cloud
  services (HEC vs HCP)
•  HANA Architecture Overview
•  SAP HANA Architecture

Overview of Simple Finance:

• Functionality and benefits of SFIN
• Deployment Options for SFIN
• Licencing Options
• SAP SFIN Software Products
• Upgrade Paths to SFIN
• Universal Journal
• Tables Removed
•  Universal Journal
  Extensibility
•  Universal Journal Entry
•  Document Numbers (BELNR)
•  Document Numbers
  compatibility with CO
•  Appendix (Extension)
  Ledger
•  What’s changed with Simple Finance
•  Existing Custom Programs and Interfaces
•  Prima Nota
•  Interfaces for Central Finance
•  Central Finance Instance
•  External System information
•  Central Finance Implementation
•  Key components for installation

GL and Cost Elements:
      • General Ledger Master Data
      • Cost Element Master Data
      • Primary Cost Element Creation
      • Secondary Cost Element Creation
      • Fixed Asset Statistical Cost Element Creation
      • FI and CO Period Locks
      • Authorizations for GL Master Data

Managing Ledgers

• Appendix (Extension) Ledger
• Appendix Ledger Benefits
• Appendix Ledger Configuration
• Level 1: Master Data of
  Ledger
• Level 2: Company Code
  Assignment
• Level 3: Accounting
  Principles to Company Code Assignment

New Asset Accounting:
      • Table Changes in New Asset
Accounting
      • Advantages of New Asset Accounting
      • How posting works with New Asset Accounting
      • Technical Clearing Accoun

      • Configuring Technical
Clearing Account
      • Define How Depreciation Areas Post to GL

CO Module in Simple Finance:
       • CO posting changes
       • CO Configurations
       • CO-PA with HANA
       • CO and Material Ledger
       • Period End Closing
       • Technical Changes for CO
       • CO Postings (without Ledger Group

         vs with Ledger Group) for Interfaces
       • Technical Changes for Material Ledger
       • Material Pricing

Cash Management:
      • Function of Cash
Operations
      • Function of Bank Account Management
      • Function of Liquidity Management
      • Fiori Apps for Cash Management

Integrated Business Planning for Finance (IBPF):

      • IBPF’s role
      • Pre-requisites for Installing IBPF
      • Benefits of using IBPF
      • How IBPF works

Migration to Simple Finance Add-on:
      • Migration Phases
      • Project Preparation Phase
      • Installation Phase
      • Customizing Phase
      • Data Migration Phase
      • Post Processing Phase
      • Points to Consider
      • Simple Finance Migration
      • Migration from Classic GL to SFIN

Project Preparation Phase:
      • Project Preparation Phase
Activities
      • What’s good about Asset Accounting (New)
      • Checks on pre-requisites for migration to New Asset
Accounting
      • Project Preparation – FI-AA (New)
      • Project Preparation – FI, CO, Sub-ledgers

Installation Phase:
     • Installation Phase
Activities

Customization Phase – General Ledger:

      • Check and Adopt Fiscal Year
Variants
      • Migrate General Ledger Customizing
      • Define Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types
      • Define Ledger for CO Version
      • Define Document Types for Postings in Controlling
      • Define Document Type Mapping Variants for CO Business
Transactions
      • Check and Define Default Values for Postings in
Controlling
      • Define Offsetting Account Determination Type
      • Define Currency Settings for Migration
      • Define Source Ledger for Migration of Balances
      • Execute Consistency Check of General Ledger Settings
      • Activate Business Functions

Customization Phase – Asset Accounting (New):
     • Preparation and Pre-Check
     • Steps in Customizing client
     • Steps in Test and Production client
     • Migrate Chart of Depreciation (CoD)
     • Check Pre-requisites for Activating AA (New)
     • Activate Asset Accounting (New)
     • Adjust Parameters in Chart of Depreciation (Optional)

Customization Phase – Controlling:

• Execute BW-Delta extraction for Account-based
  CO-PA
• Adapt Settings for the
  Change of Profitability Segment Characteristics
• Maintain Operating Concern
• Maintain Operating Concern –
  Banking Add-on
• Activate Account-based Profitability Analysis
• COGS splitting flow to Account based COPA

Data Migration Phase:
        • Partitioning of Universal
Journal               

• Entry
  Line Items Table
• Regenerate CDS Views and Field Mapping
• Migration of Cost Elements
• Technical Check of Transaction Data
• Migration – Enrichment of Data
• Migration of Line Items into
  Data Structure
• Migration of Balances
• Migration: Calculation of Depreciation and
  Totals Values
• Migrate House Bank Accounts
• Complete Migration

Post Processing Phase:
       • Transfer Application
Indexes
       • Fill Due Dates in FI Documents
       • Fill the Offsetting Account in FI Documents
       • Migrate House Banks

Reporting Options:
       • Traditional SAP ERP Reports
       • SFIN Reports
       • HANA LIVE Reports
       • Fiori Apps

Preparing for Certification:

       • How to book for the exam
       • Preparing for the online proctored exam
       • What contents will be quizzed upon
       • Sample questions and answers