Review: Financial Accounting in SAP ERP: Business User Guide - e3zine

SAP Press is known worldwide as the go-to resource for learning about SAP’s solutions of the future, but they are also one of the leaders in training material for the software giant’s existing ERP solutions. In the latest edition of their FICO book Financial Accounting in SAP ERP: Business User Guide, their instructions for mastering the Financial Accounting solution are updated for EHP 8.

What will you learn?

Like all other SAP Press Business User Guides, this book is designed to be the one-stop resource for anyone working with Financial Accounting. Feeling overwhelmed by all the accounting processes you face in your daily routine? Follow along with step-by-step instructions to ensure a clean and accurate statement, learn all the important t-codes needed to complete your tasks, and use screenshots to reinforce what you’re walking through.

See where all your accounting data comes from and how to manipulate it by performing basic and advanced tasks—things like journal vouchers, sales order management, and more. Discover what common system/user errors you’ll run into while performing your accounting, and then find out how to troubleshoot them.

Whether you’re working with G/L, AP, AR, AA, or something else, this book is indispensable. Other highlights include:

Master data
Automated payments
Banking
Financial close
Integration
Account inquiry

Who will this book benefit?

David Burns, the book’s author, spends just north of 600 pages providing content that any finance professional will find helpful. Whether you’re an accountant, AR/AP manager, or a controller, the steps Burns lays out are the foundation needed to succeed in FI.

While SAP ERP is still a strong and popular solution, everyone knows that they’ll eventually be on SAP S/4Hana one day. The book takes a look at what this transition means for you. Find out what kinds of architectural changes have been made between the classic and new business suite, see what simplifications are available in SAP S/4Hana for FI, learn about SAP Fiori and embedded analytics, and more. This forward-thinking chapter is the perfect bookend to this updated classic.

You can find the book on the SAP Press website and read a sample chapter by clicking on the “Browse the Book” button beneath the book’s cover.