Configuring SAP Asset Accounting, based on the latest version of SAP S/4HANA Finance, is a complete guide to comprehend and configure SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
The book comes from the author who has written several books on SAP, including 'Configuring Financial Accounting in SAP ERP' (3rd Edition), by SAP Press (2018).
This book 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 and illustrations to help you ‘see’ what is being discussed in that activity / step. You will see a lot of context-based additional information across Chapters, for better assimilation of concepts / settings. The entire content of the book has been presented as in SAP Implementation Guide with appropriate menu paths and Transactions.
Coverage:
SAP HANA
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Finance
Case Study
Asset Accounting: Overview
Organizational Structures
Structuring Fixed Assets in FI-AA
Integration
General Valuation
Depreciation
Special Valuations
Master Data
Transactions
Information System
Asset Data Transfer
Preparations for Going Live
Overview for Experts
In this book:
You will learn about SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Finance.
You will learn how to use SAP FI-AA to manage your business entity’s fixed assets internationally. You will learn how to portray your organizational structure. You will understand what a ‘chart of depreciation’ is and how the ‘depreciation areas’ enable managing the rules for asset depreciation / valuation. You will learn how to structure assets.
You will learn FI-AA's integration with SAP's other application components, including G/L Accounting. You will learn how to manage general / special valuation, to meet differing business needs. You will learn how SAP supports both automatic (ordinary & special depreciation) and manual depreciation (unplanned depreciation & transfer of reserves). You will understand how SAP carries out depreciation calculation using ‘Depreciation Calculation Program’.
You will learn how information is arranged in an asset master record, in general master data area and in the data area for calculating asset values. You will learn about various ‘transaction types’, for carrying out asset transactions including acquisitions, retirements, transfers etc. You will learn about SAP Queries, asset history sheet etc., as a part of FI-AA Information System. You will learn how to undertake legacy asset data transfer into SAP FI-AA. As a part of going live, you will learn about production startup activities. You will learn how to use the ‘overview for experts’ functionality to check / verify configuration.
In all, you will find this book easy to use as a desktop-reference for configuring SAP FI-AA.
