100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP ERP Financials (H3129)

Description

Provides 100 little-known time-saving tips and workarounds for SAP Controlling users, super-users, and consultants
Features a practical, highly-visual, easy-to-use 2-page spread for each topic area
Includes access to a companion e-book or online updates that will be kept current with new tips contributed by read-ers

Have you ever spent days trying to figure out how to generate a report in SAP ERP Financials only to find out you just needed to click a few buttons. If so, you'll be delighted with this book - it unlocks the secrets of an SAP Controlling guru for use by everyone. It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds you can use to increase productivity, save time, and improve the ease-of-use for your SAP system. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information.
And with these tips, your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even hear a few comments like I had no idea you could do that that way! or I wish I had known how to do that a long time ago!

CONTENTS:

* ... Acknowledgments ... 11

    * ... Introduction ... 12

    * PART 1 ... Cost Center Accounting ... 14

    * 1 ... Standard and Alternate Hierarchies ... 16

    * 2 ... Procedure to Swap the Standard Hierarchy ... 18

    * 3 ... Cost Element Default Account Assignment ... 20

    * 4 ... Automatic Account Assignment ... 22

    * 5 ... Plan Activity Price with Activity Type Groups ... 24

    * 6 ... Copy Cost Center Plan ... 26

    * 7 ... Plan Cost Splitting ... 28

    * 8 ... Actual Price Calculation ... 30

    * 9 ... Target Cost Analysis ... 32

    * 10 ... Cost Center Variance Analysis ... 34

    * PART 2 ... Internal Orders ... 38

    * 11 ... Internal Order Planning ... 40

    * 12 ... Internal Order Budgeting ... 42

    * PART 3 ... Profit Center Accounting ... 44

    * 13 ... Profit Center Integrated Planning ... 46

    * 14 ... Profit Center Assignment Monitor ... 48

    * PART 4 ... Product Cost Planning ... 50

    * 15 ... Standard versus Moving Average Price ... 52

    * 16 ... Moving Average Historical Price ... 54

    * 17 ... Changing Material Prices Manually ... 56

    * 18 ... Price Unit versus Costing Lot Size ... 58

    * 19 ... Optimize Costing Lot Size ... 60

    * 20 ... Purchasing Info Record Prices ... 62

    * 21 ... Purchasing Info Record Scales ... 64

    * 22 ... Plant-Specific Purchasing Info Records ... 66

    * 23 ... Cost Estimates and Procurement Type ... 68

    * 24 ... Costing Sheets Allocate Overhead ... 70

    * 25 ... Template Alternative to Costing Sheets ... 72

    * 26 ... Copying Costing Variants ... 74

    * 27 ... Cost Estimate User Exits ... 76

    * 28 ... Purchased Material Delivery Costs ... 80

    * 29 ... Activity Type Search Strategies ... 84

    * 30 ... Cost Estimate Default Dates ... 86

    * 31 ... Transfer Control Uses Existing Cost Estimates ... 88

    * 32 ... Marking Allowance for Valuation Variants ... 90

    * 33 ... Mixed Cost Estimates ... 92

    * 34 ... Optimize Costing Runs ... 94

    * 35 ... Material Status Reduces Costing Messages ... 96

    * 36 ... Reduce the Clutter in Cost Estimate Screens ... 98

    * 37 ... Unit Cost Estimate - Base Planning Object ... 100

    * 38 ... Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure ... 102

    * 39 ... Searching for Cost Estimates ... 104

    * PART 5 ... Cost Object Controlling ... 106

    * 40 ... Valuation Class and Material Type ... 108

    * 41 ... Display Automatic Account Assignment Entries ... 110

    * 42 ... Valuation Grouping Code Message ... 112

    * 43 ... Purchasing Account Assignment Categories ... 114

    * 44 ... Post Purchase Price Variance to Purchasing ... 116

    * 45 ... Default Values for Product Cost Collectors ... 118

    * 46 ... Process versus Production Orders ... 120

    * 47 ... Valuated Sales Order Stock ... 122

    * 48 ... Valuation of Sales Order Stock ... 124

    * 49 ... Target Cost Versions ... 126

    * 50 ... Work in Process and Product Cost Collectors ... 128

    * 51 ... Results Analysis Involves Revenue ... 130

    * 52 ... Settlement and Processing Types ... 132

    * 53 ... Assembly Scrap Basics ... 134

    * 54 ... Component and Assembly Scrap ... 136

    * 55 ... Operation Scrap Basics ... 138

    * 56 ... Purchase Order Deletion Flag ... 140

    * 57 ... Production Order Deletion Flag ... 142

    * 58 ... Product Cost Collector Deletion Flag ... 144

    * 59 ... Allow Movement Types in a Test System ... 146

    * 60 ... Subcontracting Process ... 148

    * 61 ... Inventory Aging Reports ... 150

    * 62 ... Inventory - the Lowest Value Principle ... 152

    * 63 ... Change Valuation Class with Inventory ... 156

    * 64 ... Movement Type Account Determination ... 158

    * PART 6 ... Material Ledger ... 160

    * 65 ... Multiple Valuations with the Material Ledger ... 162

    * 66 ... Actual Costing with the Material Ledger ... 164

    * 67 ... Period-End Closing with the Material Ledger ... 166

    * 68 ... Material Master Conversion during Startup ... 170

    * 69 ... Purchase Order Conversion during Startup ... 172

    * 70 ... Reconciliation during Production Startup ... 174

    * 71 ... Preparation for Production Startup ... 176

    * 72 ... Post Conversion Activities ... 178

    * 73 ... Actual Cost Component Split ... 180

    * 74 ... Deactivating the Material Ledger ... 182

    * PART 7 ... Profitability Analysis ... 184

    * 75 ... Account- versus Costing-Based CO-PA ... 186

    * 76 ... Cost of Sales Cost Element ... 188

    * 77 ... Statistical Conditions and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) ... 190

    * 78 ... Map Manual Account Adjustments ... 192

    * 79 ... Interface Sign Logic ... 194

    * 80 ... Valuation ... 196

    * 81 ... Settle Production Variances to CO-PA ... 198

    * 82 ... Data Storage Tables ... 200

    * 83 ... Summarization Levels and Reporting ... 202

    * 84 ... Customizing Monitor ... 204

    * PART 8 ... Controlling General ... 206

    * 85 ... SAP ERP Delivered Controlling Areas ... 208

    * 86 ... Open and Close Accounting Periods ... 210

    * 87 ... Controlling Period Lock ... 212

    * 88 ... Closing Materials Management Periods ... 214

    * 89 ... Add Object Services to Sales Orders ... 216

    * 90 ... Implementation Guide Shortcuts ... 218

    * PART 9 ... Information System ... 220

    * 91 ... Line Item Reports ... 222

    * 92 ... Detailed Reports ... 224

    * 93 ... Order Summarization ... 226

    * 94 ... Variance Analysis in Prior Periods ... 228

    * 95 ... Origin Groups Provide Detailed Reporting ... 230

    * 96 ... Cost Component Groups Improve Reporting ... 232

    * 97 ... Display a List of Product Cost Collectors ... 234

    * 98 ... Display Data Directly with Data Browser ... 236

    * 99 ... Drill-Down to Display Table Content ... 238

    * 100 ... Wildcard Search Options ... 240

    * ... Glossary ... 242

    * ... Bibliography ... 260

    * ... Additional Resources ... 262

    * ... The Author ... 265

    * ... Index ... 266