Course Goals:

• Set up Overhead Cost Controlling in SAP ERP Financials. post actual costs from upstream components and carry out period-end closing activities
• Derive Profit Centers
• Carry out cost center planning in SAP ERP Financials
• Calculate product cost (both with and without a quantity structure) and carry out co-product planning
• Implement Profitability Analysis in SAP ERP Financials
• Evaluate posted data with common reporting tools in Business Analytics

Target Audience:

• Solution consultants responsible for implementing Management Accounting with SAP ERP Financials

Course Content:

• Overview of SAP Business Suite
• Organizational structures and master data in Overhead Cost Controlling (cost types, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, internal orders)
• Assignment of costs to cost centers and internal orders using upstream applications
• Tools for process-related posting inside Overhead Cost Controlling (default account assignment, validation, substitution, transfer, direct activity allocation)
• Periodic allocation methods in Overhead Cost Controlling (periodic transfer, apportionment, payroll, overhead expenses)
• Reconciliation of cost accounting with financial accounting using the reconciliation ledger
• Profit Center master data and assignments
• Planning costs, activities and prices for cost centers
• Planning integration in Management Accounting
• Reference and simulation costing
• Material costing without quantity structure
• Setting up Product Cost Planning
• Material costing with quantity structure
• Costing run (mass processing)
• Transfer control
• Calculation of co-products
• Easy Cost Planning
• * Objects in Cost Object Controlling: Product Cost by Period (for example, product cost collectors), Product Cost by Order (for example, order-related production, process orders), sales orders Valuated sales order stock
• Planning functions: Preliminary costing for product cost collectors, production orders, process orders, sales orders
• Functions for actual costs: Simultaneous costing based on goods issue from the warehouse, purchasing, confirmations, activity allocations, and deliveries
• Period-end closing (template activity allocations, overhead rates, work in process, variance calculation, results analysis, settlement) for Product Cost by Period and Product Cost by Order as well as sales-order-related production (service)
• Defining master data and transactional data tables in Profitability Analysis
• Derivation of profitability segments
• Evaluating value fields with material costing and a calculation procedure
• Account assignment of profitability segments from sales, overhead cost controlling, product controlling, and financials
• Definition of drilldown reports in Profitability Analysis
• Definition of Report Painter reports
• Reports for the Line Manager and the Sales Business Analyst in SAP BW
• Overhead cost controlling in BW (using the Info Cubes provided or by creating queries)
• Overview of SAP Solution Manager