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Identify the most important areas to address when training end users on SAP financials functionality, including analysis, display, environment, and reporting. Take home 30 tips that will accelerate the end-user learning curve and reduce calls to the help desk. Learn how to help users get the most from reporting tools, such as ALV and report trees, to maximize their productivity. Learn how to teach end users to set key defaults for FI in order to trace and determine the status of FI documents, including confirmation of a document’s reversal or clearance. Identify the most frequently used codes by document type such as G/L account document (SA), customer document (DA), and customer payment (KA) and posting keys (01, 31, 40, 50) to assist end users in quickly identifying the purpose of each posting. Walk away with a list of key parameter IDs for finance users.

This session examines the rules, transactions, and methods for document splitting in the new G/L (available in SAP ERP). Walk through examples of financial transactions that illustrate the primary concepts of document splitting. Determine whether document splitting on characteristics, such as profit centers or segments, is right for your company and learn how to activate each method. Differentiate between passive splitting, active splitting and splitting using zero-balancing. Identify 7 key steps to configure document splitting in your own system. Obtain a step-by-step method for how to use document splitting to attain full financial statements at the segment and profit center levels that comply with International Accounting Standards (IAS) regulations of segment reporting.

Put an end to the perennial battle between FI and MM functional analysts over the responsibility of FI/MM integration configuration. Empower your FI team and take control of the critical configuration and integration points between these areas to ensure clean postings in General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL). Examine the fields that drive the FI postings made by MM transactions, and learn about key tables in this configuration. Find out why table T030 is critical to the smooth integration of MM and FI. Delve into the three key sources of material movement postings that affect FI-GL: deliveries, goods receipts, and plant material movements. Find out how FI and MM activities can get out of sync and how to get them back on track. Take home a chart of all inputs that impact MM postings and a step-by-step guide for activating goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) account user exits.

Expand your knowledge of the new SAP G/L (available in SAP ERP) and get expert advice for how to configure it. Consider critical factors that affect the risk of implementing or migrating to the new G/L, including master and organizational data management, transactional data integrity, and financial reporting compliance. Find out how to ensure data and process integrity by avoiding too many parallel ledger setups. Reduce the impact high data volumes could have on system performance by activating document splitting functionality. Understand why it pays to be cautious when updating profit centers with segments. Acquire best practices and configuration tips for utilizing simulation, inheritance, and setting zero balance constants.