Running accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance? This is your hands-on guide! Learn how financial accounting works with the Universal Journal and understand key organizational structures. Get step-by-step instructions to perform your finance tasks for the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and customer projects and billing. With details on both classic SAP GUI transactions and modern SAP Fiori apps, as well as coverage of new event-based revenue recognition, youll find everything you need in these pages!In this book, youll learn about:a. Finance Fundamentals Explore the processes that make up financial accounting: order to cash, purchase to pay, acquire to retire, and record to report. Understand the organizational structures and general ledger master data that provide the foundation to FI. b. Tasks and Transactions Walk through your core accounting activities, click by click. Post journal entries in the general ledger, create customer and vendor invoices, make payments, process bank statements, manage assets, set up customer projects, and more. c. Period-End Close and ReportingClose your books and report on your data. In each finance subarea, perform key tasks such as reconciliation, foreign currency valuation, and reclassifications. Learn about key transactions and apps that are available for reporting. Highlights include:1) General ledger accounting2) Accounts payable3) Accounts receivable4) Fixed assets5) Customer projects6) Event-based revenue recognition7) Organizational structure8) Period-end close9) Reporting10) SAP GUI transactions11) SAP Fiori applications

· · · ... Who This Book Is For ... 15 · ... How This Book Is Organized ... 15 · ... Acknowledgments ... 18 · ... Conclusion ... 18 · · 1.1 ... Deployment Models ... 19 · 1.2 ... Universal Journal ... 22 · 1.3 ... Simplifications and Innovations ... 27 · 1.4 ... User Interfaces ... 34 · 1.5 ... Summary ... 40 · · 2.1 ... Standard Financial Accounting Processes ... 43 · 2.2 ... Organizational Elements of Financial Accounting ... 50 · 2.3 ... Integration of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting ... 71 · 2.4 ... Summary ... 86 · · 3.1 ... Record-to-Report ... 89 · 3.2 ... General Ledger Master Data ... 97 · 3.3 ... General Ledger Posting Documents ... 109 · 3.4 ... Resetting and Reversing Documents ... 145 · 3.5 ... Bank Accounting ... 154 · 3.6 ... General Ledger Period-End Closing ... 167 · 3.7 ... General Ledger Reporting ... 189 · 3.8 ... Summary ... 203 · · 4.1 ... Purchase-to-Pay ... 205 · 4.2 ... Vendor Accounts ... 222 · 4.3 ... Vendor Invoices ... 231 · 4.4 ... Outgoing Payments ... 239 · 4.5 ... Process Exceptions ... 255 · 4.6 ... Accounts Payable Period-End Closing ... 262 · 4.7 ... Accounts Payable Reporting ... 284 · 4.8 ... Summary ... 294 · · 5.1 ... Order-to-Cash Process ... 298 · 5.2 ... Customer Accounts ... 308 · 5.3 ... Customer Invoices ... 316 · 5.4 ... Customer Payments ... 322 · 5.5 ... Process Exceptions ... 330 · 5.6 ... Dunning ... 339 · 5.7 ... Credit Management ... 343 · 5.8 ... Accounts Receivable Period-End Closing ... 350 · 5.9 ... Accounts Receivable Reporting ... 374 · 5.10 ... Summary ... 387 · · 6.1 ... Acquire-to-Retire Process ... 390 · 6.2 ... Fixed Asset Accounts and Master Data ... 394 · 6.3 ... Fixed Asset Explorer ... 414 · 6.4 ... Asset Transactions ... 422 · 6.5 ... Fixed Assets Period-End Closing ... 439 · 6.6 ... Fixed Assets Reporting ... 457 · 6.7 ... Summary ... 466 · · 7.1 ... Customer Project Scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 468 · 7.2 ... Event-Based Revenue Recognition ... 503 · 7.3 ... Simplified Period-End Close ... 551 · 7.4 ... Summary ... 553 · ·