SAP Finance and Logistics Training Course

Participants can explain how SAP enterprise structures support legal reporting and operational control.

• Company code design for statutory reporting, currency management, and closing
• Chart of accounts structure using operating, group, and country charts
• Fiscal year variants, posting periods, and document type controls
• Plants and storage locations linked to inventory ownership and valuation
• Purchasing and sales organisational assignments driving transaction processing permissions
• Segregation-of-duties principles for requisitioning, receiving, invoicing, and payment approval

Participants can maintain and assess master data required for controlled financial postings.

• General ledger account groups, field status, and posting controls
• Business Partner model replacing separate customer and vendor master records
• Reconciliation accounts linking subledger transactions to general ledger balances
• Payment terms, dunning procedures, and tolerance groups for receivables
• Vendor payment methods, bank details, and duplicate-invoice prevention controls
• Master-data governance workflow for creation, change approval, and archival

Participants can assign operational costs to SAP controlling objects and interpret their effects.

• Controlling area assignments supporting cross-company cost accounting structures
• Cost centre hierarchy, standard hierarchy, and responsibility reporting design
• Primary and secondary cost elements within S/4HANA Universal Journal
• Internal orders for projects, campaigns, maintenance, and temporary initiatives
• Profit centres supporting management reporting by product, region, or division
• Statistical key figures used as allocation bases for shared costs

Participants can trace a standard purchasing transaction from requirement through payment.

• Purchase requisitions capturing material requirements, account assignments, and approvals
• Source determination using purchasing info records, contracts, and source lists
• Purchase order document structure, pricing conditions, and release strategies
• Three-way match between purchase order, goods receipt, and invoice
• Account assignment categories for cost centres, assets, projects, and stock
• Document flow analysis from requisition through vendor payment document

Participants can identify master-data fields that determine procurement, inventory and valuation behaviour.

• Material master views controlling purchasing, accounting, sales, and inventory data
• Material types determining number ranges, valuation requirements, and field selection
• Valuation class assignment driving automatic general ledger account determination
• Material groups supporting spend analysis, purchasing controls, and reporting
• Purchasing info records storing vendor-specific prices, lead times, and conditions
• Source lists and quota arrangements governing approved supplier selection

Participants can post and analyse goods movements and their inventory control consequences.

• Goods receipt posting increases stock and creates goods-receipt accounting entries
• Movement types distinguishing receipts, issues, transfers, returns, and adjustments
• Transfer postings between plants, storage locations, and stock categories
• Stock types: unrestricted-use, quality-inspection, blocked, and consignment stock
• Reservation documents controlling planned material issues to cost objects
• Physical inventory procedures using count documents, differences, and adjustment postings

Participants can explain how inventory events create financial postings through valuation and account determination.

• Standard price and moving average price valuation methods
• Automatic account determination using transaction keys and valuation classes
• Goods receipt and invoice receipt clearing account reconciliation
• Price differences arising from purchase order, receipt, and invoice variances
• Split valuation for separate stock categories, origins, or procurement types
• Material Ledger functions supporting actual costing and multi-currency valuation

Participants can process invoice verification exceptions and connect them to accounts payable control.

• Logistics invoice verification matching invoices against purchase orders and receipts
• Tolerance limits triggering invoice blocks for price and quantity variances
• Blocked invoice release procedures with documented approval rationale
• Credit memos, subsequent debits, and subsequent credits against purchasing documents
• Vendor invoice postings updating payables, tax, expense, and clearing accounts
• Automatic payment program parameters, payment proposals, and payment media

Participants can follow an order-to-cash process and identify its finance integration points.

• Sales area structure linking sales organisation, distribution channel, and division
• Customer master data supporting partner functions, pricing, shipping, and billing
• Sales order processing using item categories, schedule lines, and availability checks
• Pricing procedure determination using customer, sales area, and document attributes
• Delivery processing from picking through post-goods-issue confirmation
• Order-to-cash document flow connecting sales order, delivery, billing, and payment

Participants can explain billing postings, customer receivables and revenue-related controls.

• Billing document types for invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and cancellations
• Account determination linking sales conditions to revenue and receivables accounts
• Post-goods-issue accounting for inventory reduction and cost of sales
• Customer invoice posting through billing integration with Financial Accounting
• Credit management controls using credit limits, exposure, and blocked orders
• Dunning procedures for overdue invoices, reminders, and collection escalation

Participants can analyse logistics-related cost flows using SAP controlling methods.

• Cost centre postings from purchasing, payroll, inventory, and journal entries
• Activity types and activity prices for internal service cost allocation
• Assessment cycles redistributing primary costs through secondary cost postings
• Distribution cycles retaining original cost element information across receivers
• Internal order settlement transferring accumulated costs to final receivers
• Cost centre plan-versus-actual reports identifying material operational variances

Participants can interpret sales, cost and margin information for profitability reporting.

• Margin analysis characteristics for customer, product, region, channel, and sales organisation
• Revenue and cost-of-sales postings transferred from sales and finance documents
• Contribution margin analysis using standard costs, actual costs, and discounts
• Derivation rules assigning profitability characteristics from transactional master data
• Profit centre reporting for responsibility margins and organisational performance
• Sales margin exceptions traced through billing, inventory, and cost documents

Participants can connect capital purchasing transactions with asset accounting and depreciation controls.

• Asset master records defining asset class, useful life, and depreciation areas
• Asset acquisition through purchase orders, goods receipt, and vendor invoices
• Asset under construction processing for capital projects and staged settlement
• Capitalisation thresholds separating expense purchases from fixed asset acquisitions
• Depreciation run controls, posting periods, and general ledger reconciliation
• Asset retirement, transfer, and scrapping postings with audit documentation

Participants can perform the principal reconciliations and checks required for period-end close.

• Posting period management controlling open periods for finance and materials
• Goods-receipt invoice-receipt reconciliation for uninvoiced and unmatched purchase activity
• Inventory count differences reviewed before financial close and reporting
• Foreign currency valuation for open customer and vendor items
• Accrual and deferral postings using recurring entries and reversal dates
• Financial close checklist covering subledgers, inventory, allocations, and reporting

Participants can select SAP reports and control checks to support management and audit requirements.

• Universal Journal reporting across general ledger, controlling, and asset accounting
• Line-item reports for vendor, customer, material, and cost centre investigation
• Open-item analysis identifying aged receivables, payables, and clearing exceptions
• SAP Fiori analytical apps for purchasing spend, stock, and finance monitoring
• Control matrix linking business risks, SAP controls, evidence, and owners
• Audit trail review using document headers, change logs, and workflow history

Participants can diagnose common process failures and define controlled correction actions.

• Root-cause analysis separating master-data, process, configuration, and user errors
• Error-resolution workflow for blocked invoices, failed postings, and interface exceptions
• Duplicate vendor and customer detection using master-data matching criteria
• Authorisation concepts using roles, transactions, organisational values, and segregation
• Change-control records for configuration, master data, and transport requests
• Data-cleansing priorities based on financial risk, transaction volume, and ownership

Participants can prepare finance and logistics process changes for testing and business adoption.

• Business process requirements documented with scope, rules, inputs, and outputs
• Test scripts defining preconditions, steps, expected results, and evidence
• User-acceptance testing scenarios covering normal, exception, and approval paths
• Defect log classification by severity, root cause, owner, and resolution
• SAP Activate fit-to-standard workshops for process design decisions
• Training needs analysis linking roles to transactions, reports, and controls

Participants can build, review and present a complete SAP finance and logistics process blueprint with controls, postings and reporting requirements.

• Select a business scenario spanning procurement, inventory, finance, and reporting
• Build end-to-end process maps with documents, roles, decisions, and controls
• Define master-data requirements for materials, business partners, accounts, and cost objects
• Trace accounting postings from goods receipt through invoice and payment
• Review reconciliation points, exception handling, risks, and control evidence
• Present process blueprint findings, improvement actions, and implementation priorities