Migration and Manual Reposting of Costs in SAP Simple Finance

Last updated on Dec 07 2021
Siddharth Purandare

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Migration and Manual Reposting of Costs in SAP Simple Finance

You’ll also migrate to the latest version of Simple Finance Add-On when you are running on a system – new G/L, classic G/L, or Simple Finance 1.0. New SAP S/4 HANA customers can take over their legacy data using classic migration tools.

When you migrate to SAP Simple Finance Add On, it’s fast and easy. The duration is very small and you’ll execute at any period end. You don’t need a new G/L migration service to migrate to SAP Accounting powered by HANA. Changes to coding blocks, external interfaces, security, reporting etc. are optional.

When you migrate to Accounting on HANA from a classic G/L setup, it doesn’t support the subsequent scenarios −

  • Balance sheets at the Profit Center Level
  • Implementation of document splitting
  • When you are running on a classic G/L model, it doesn’t support new Implementation of parallel accounting and segment reporting
  • Change and Conversion of Chart of Accounts

When you start a migration project to SAP Simple Finance Add On, the subsequent factors could influence the project duration −

  • One of the important factors that should be considered during migration is quality and the size of data to be migrated. It’s quicker to migrate a system with go-live from 2014 than another system with go-live on 2000.
  • Experience Level of Project Members and Consultants involved within the migration project
  • Availability and setup of the Test system
  • Delta migration scenario to optimize downtime

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Migration Process

In a migration project to SAP Simple Finance Add on, you have to perform the subsequent steps −

Step 1 − System Preparation Phase

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The first phase within the migration project is system preparation phase, where you perform pre-check, data cleanup, consistency of data, closing tasks, and reporting.

Step 2 − Installation of SAP Simple Finance Add-On and Other Components

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The next step is the installation of SAP Simple Finance Add On component, setting up HANA Live and SAP Fiori implementation to provide better tile-based UX.

Step 3 − Customizing for Migration

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Perform customizing for General Ledger, Asset Accounting, and Controlling.

Step 4 − Data Migration

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Perform data migration to move data from the legacy system to SAP S/4 HANA system.

Step 5 − Post Migration Activities

Once the migration is performed, you need to perform cold store and add further information to documents.

Step 6 − Data Checks

The last step is to perform the checks on migrated data, report validation, and test the processes.

 

Manual Reposting of Costs

You’ll do manual posting of cost in SAP Simple Finance and display the results within the table. To do manual reposting, subsequent are the steps.

Step 1 − navigate to Accounting → Controlling → Cost Center Accounting → Actual Posting → Manual Reposting of Costs or use Transaction code KB11N

Step 2 − Enter the subsequent details within the next window as shown within the above screenshot −

  • Document Type – SA
  • L5 within the Ledger Group box
  • 1000 within the CCtr (old) box
  • Confirm your entry by pressing the Tab key
  • 400000 within the Cost Elem. box
  • The Amount
  • PCM within the CCtr (new) box
  • Transfer Number within the text box

Step 3 − To save the entry, click the Save button.

Step 4 − In SAP Easy Access, enter SE16N within the Transaction box and confirm your entry by pressing the Enter key.

Step 5 − Enter the subsequent details within the subsequent screenshot −

  • Enter ACDOCA within the Table box. Confirm entry by pressing the Enter key.
  • Enter the Current Year within the Fiscal Year box.
  • Enter the document number within the Ref. Document box → Execute or press F8.

Scrolling further, you’ll ascertawithin the large number of data derived and stored from the single posting within the universal journal table.

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What you will Learn in this Course?

Overview of SAP HANA

  • Basic HANA introduction
  • SAP’s Big thing
  • SAP Fi, SAP CO, SAP BW, SAP APO
  • SAP S4 Hana next generation business suite
  • On Premise edition and Cloud edition
  • S4 HANA simplifier of enterprise software
  • Functional scope
  • Roadmap
  • SAP Hana History
  • ECC and ERP Concepts
  • Profitability
  • SAP COPA
  • Different types of tables
  • MATDOC
  • Green Field Implementation
  • Transformation of SAP to different Version of HANA

SAP Hana Implementation and Finance Concepts

  • Customer Program
  • Quota Management
  • FIORI
  • Rationalization
  • Profit Center
  • IOT
  • ECC
  • New GL Concept
  • SAP Vs SAP Fi
  • WorkCenter and RECIPE
  • Column Based reading
  • Company Code
  • Production Order
  • Cost of Activity
  • Cost of Production

General Ledger Accounting and Master Data

  • Material Document
  • Kinds of Data
  • Master data and transaction
  • Sub ledger
  • ACDOCA
  • FIORI App
  • ECC V/s HANA
  • Rationalization

Integrated Business Processes

  • General Table Display
  • Document number, Company Code, Fiscal Year
  • Asset Accounting
  • Cost Center
  • Cost element
  • Profitability segment
  • Sales and Distribution
  • Type of accounting
  • Central finance
  • Credit Control area

Organization Structure

  • Creation of new company codes
  • Defining business area
  • Functional area
  • IFRS
  • Profit Center
  • Product hierarchy
  • Profit center finalization and profit center dissension
  • Financial accounting organizational structure
  • Group Currency

CO (Controlling)

  • Controlling organisation structure
  • Current and valuation profile
  • Controlling area
  • Operating Concern
  • Financial accounting global setting
  • Ledgers
  • Currency Types
  • Legal View

Concepts of General Ledger Accounting Continued

  • Fiscal year
  • Shortened fiscal year
  • Purchase to pay
  • Order to cash
  • Goods receipts
  • Invoice

Master Data Management and Migration

  • Upgrade and migrate
  • S4 HANA component
  • Deployment of SAP HANA
  • SAP HANA Database migration
  • Replicate to central finance
  • Fiori
  • Simplified data model in finance
  • Avoid redundancy
  • Data footprint

Management Accounting and CO-PA

  • Account before simple finance
  • Finance implication
  • COPA revenue
  • COPA cost
  • Revenue
  • The new architecture with simple finance
  • Cost element
  • Simple IT with SAP simple finance architecture
  • GL account and cost element details

Material Ledger and Centralized Master Data for GL

  • Material ledger
  • Prima Nota in simple finance
  • Mr21 and Mr22
  • Multi-dimensional income statement
  • Merge of account
  • GL Account
  • Customer account
  • System work through
  • Header table
  • Transaction code and parameter
  • TSRC table
  • FI/CO document
  • Variant related program
  • Difference between Tcode and program

Financials for SAP S4 Hana

  • Tax in SAP
  • Direct and Indirect Tax
  • Account
  • Document Type in SAP Fi
  • Posting Key
  • Purchase order
  • Checking controlling area and company code object

SAP Product Costing

  • Cost objects
  • Cost Management & Profitability Analysis
  • Checking scrapping document
  • What is scrapping means

Materials Management

  • Material Vs Asset
  • Receipts and consumption
  • Material price analysis
  • Two type of consumption
  • Cost center
  • Material price analysis
  • Changing cost components splits of a material

Functionalities in New Asset Accounting

  • SAP Hana Implementation
  • G/L Account
  • Cost Object
  • Revenue collector
  • Asset accounting
  • HANA road map
  • Standard optimized transaction
  • Service order
  • Consignment
  • Fault part return
  • Accrual Management
  • What is underlined process
  • How finance support other modules
  • Positive post to order and negative post to order
  • Go-live and post migration activities
  • KPI with HANA
  • Monitor business performance
  • Accrual entry
  • Pricing procedure
  • Expense and revenue account

Finance process improvement

  • Over absorption and under absorption
  • Types of cycle
  • SAP treasury and risk management
  • Functional changes in HANA

Migration to SAP S4HANA Finance and General Ledger Accounting Continued

  • Project system
  • Data archiving
  • Profit center
  • Reconciliation issue
  • Migration to S4 Hana
  • Enablement of SAP S4 Hana
  • Implementing new G/L
  • Document Splitting
  • Parallel accounting

SAP Central Finance on S4 Hana

  • Replication to central finance
  • Non ECC system
  • Central finance mapping
  • Type of deployment

S4 Hana project phases

  • Preparation phase
  • Feasibility check
  • Check Size
  • Active business function
  • Parallel valuation
  • Depreciation calculation
  • Consistency check
  • Customizing
  • Data migration
  • Post migration
  • Testing
  • Preparation phase
  • Important SAP notes
  • Scope – ABAP
  • Active business function
  • FI consistency check

Reconciliation Process in SAP Hana

  • Reconciliation of general ledger and account payable
  • Reconciliation of the general ledger with materials management
  • Reconciliation of the ledgers
  • Ledger Comparison
  • Consistency check
  • Migration of general ledger settings
  • Defining setting for the journal entry ledger

Other Key Topics

  • Document types for Co
  • Real time reconciliation
  • Execute consistency check of general ledger setting
  • Data migration
  • Universal journal entry table
  • Management accounting
  • Migrate secondary cost elements to the card of accounts
  • Migration of cost elements to G/L account
  • Automatic account determination

Material Valuation in SAP Hana

  • Automatic determination of the account
  • Material valuation
  • Migrate default account assignments

Customizing Financials in SAP S/4HANA

  • Reconcile transnational data
  • Types of reconcile
  • Enrichment of data
  • Migration of line items into new data structure
  • Universal journal entry structure

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