Configuring SAP General Ledger Accounting

This book on 'Configuring SAP General Ledger Accounting' in SAP S/4HANA Finance, covers configuring your SAP system for making use of the important functional areas of SAP General Ledger (G/L) Accounting.

As with my other books on SAP, this book also follows a case-study approach to make your learning easy. Efforts have been taken, throughout the book, to guide you step-by-step in understanding how to configure your SAP system, to meet your exact business needs. Each configuration activity has been discussed with appropriate screen shots (from an SAP system) and illustrations to help you 'see' what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of additional information, provided across the Chapters and the Sections, to help you comprehend a topic or a configuration setting or a concept better. The entire content of the book, vide various Chapters, has been presented as in SAP IMG (Implementation Guide), for easy reference. You will come across with appropriate menu paths and Transactions, to help you to navigate the various activities.

The coverage includes:

Case Study
SAP General Ledger Accounting: Overview
Features & Functionalities
Pre-requisites for Configuring SAP G/L Accounting
Master Data
Business Transactions
Periodic Processing
Preparation for Productive Start
Information System

The book starts with a case study, setting up the tone for further discussions, outlining the various business processes that you will be configuring towards implementing SAP G/L Accounting for your business. You will come across with the case study brief per configuration activity / step, in each Chapter.

We discuss the overview of SAP G/L Accounting, before moving on to discuss its important features and functionalities. You will learn about extensibility, ledger concept, document splitting, parallel accounting, segment reporting, fast close and integration of SAP FI with SAP Controlling.

We, then, move on to discuss the pre-requisites for configuring SAP G/L Accounting. Here, you will learn about the important FI general settings and also on how to configure the fields, ledgers and currencies. You will learn more about parallel accounting and the FI integration with CO.

While on G/L master data, we discuss the G/L account master data, the profit center master data and segment master data. We bring out, in detail, the preparations that you need to make for creating these master data, besides elaborating their creation and processing.

You will, then, be taken to learn about the functionality as well as the configuration of G/L business transactions, including document splitting, open item clearing, bank account interest calculation, and adjustment posting / reversal.

In periodic processing for G/L, you will learn about the various closing operations like check/count, valuate, reclassify, allocation and carry forward.

We, then, discuss the preparations that you need to make for productive start of SAP G/L Accounting system. You will learn about the preparations, in detail, for new implementation, as well as for migration from an existing non-HANA SAP system.

Finally, towards the end, we discuss the G/L information system. You will learn about the various G/L reports that are available for your business, including the drilldown reports and reports created with Report Painter / Report Writer.

In all, you can use this book as a desktop-reference or a refresher for configuring SAP G/L Accounting. As the Chapters have been progressively elaborated, you will find the book very informative and easy to read.