SAP Finance Fundamentals
Browse practical Fundamentals guidance in SAP Finance, organized for implementation, configuration and technical reference.
What this hub covers
Fundamentals is a defined knowledge area within SAP Finance. This hub brings its published guides into one permanent, crawlable destination so practitioners can move from foundational concepts to configuration and operational detail without relying on a search-results page. Use the curated starting points first, then continue through the complete library for deeper implementation context.
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SAP FI - CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP
FICO Configuration 1. ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE 1.1. Description: Maintain Enterprise Structure Transaction Code: SPRO Menu Path: IMG > Enterprise...
Read guide →Accounting Interface overview
This post will describe the Accounting Interface architecture. Overview: This post will describe the two functions most used in the accounting...
Read guide →Variant Principle in SAP FI
Variant is a group of settings which used for execution of operations in system or for assignments to company code. SAP provided standard variants,...
Read guide →SAP FI - Overview
SAP FI stands for Financial Accounting and it is one of important modules of SAP ERP. It is used to store the financial data of an organization. SAP...
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SAP FI - Credit Control Area
Credit Control area is used for controlling the credit exposure of the company to a different operations with our partners. A prerequisite for...
SAP FI - Number Ranges
You can assign one or more document types to number range. The number range is applicable to document type as mentioned in the document posting and...
SAP FI - Document Structure
All financial transactions of a company code are recorded on a daily basis, hence it is required to have various SAP FI documents to capture...
SAP FI - Posting Authorization
SAP ERP has an advanced system for managing authorizations of users. This system allows to configure what employees of a company have access to...
SAP FI: EMAIL Functionality
Every Standard FI process like Dunning and Payment and collection advice has a default way of sending there notices to the customer or vendor by...
SAP FI (APP) - Debit Balance Check
SAP debit balance check is a program that is run to check all vendor accounts with debit balance. If SAP debt balance check is not done, the payment...
SAP FI (APP) - Sample Use Case
To access the automatic payment program screen, you need to enter transaction code F110 or follow the menu path as shown below. Menu Path for Payment...
SAP FI (APP) - Configuration
SAP payment program configuration menu is made up of six basic items. Configuration is done in all the screens behind these items. To access the...
SAP FI (APP) - Payment Run Business Process
SAP Payment run process gives companies a convenient, simple and effective way to pay their vendors. SAP FI uses automatic payment program as a tool...
SAP Basic Tasks: Processing IDOC through LSMW
Transfer data from legacy system to SAP via IDOC using LSMW tool. TCODE: LSMW Click on settings -> IDoc Inbound Processing. In the below screen...
SAP Basic Tasks: LSMW Standard Batch/Direct Input
LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) LSMW is a standard tool provided by SAP. Normally, LSMW is used for data migration. But in some case that we...
SAP FI - Define Account Determination for Real-Time Integration
In this configuration activity you have to define account determination when you have integration between CO and FI. What is usually recommended is...
SAP FI - Define Rules for Selecting CO Line Items
In this configuration activity you are able to define a rules by which the CO Line Items will be selected. If you want all CO line items to transfer...
SAP FI - Define Variants for Real-Time Integration
This transaction is necessary when you want to have a real-time integration flowing from the CO to the FI using the functionalities of the New...
SAP FI - Change Message Control for Document Processing
There are cases where users will get messages which will prevent them from processing a particular document types through specific transaction. With...
SAP FI - Assign User/Tolerance Groups
If you already have a specific tolerance group, in the following transaction you are able to assign it to specific user. If a user does not have...
SAP FI - Define Tolerance Groups for Employees
Tolerance Groups are used to define different control amounts which apply to maximum amount of the document, maximum amount of the line item, maximum...
SAP FI - Document Change Rules, Line Item
Document Change Rules for Line Items will help you to control which field will be editable after posting. Examples of such fields could be due date,...
SAP FI - Document Change Rules, Document Header
Document Change Rules are helping when you want to define fields which should be maintainable after initial entry. Sometimes you will need to change...