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Suggestions
1. You cannot answer all questions by reading from the documents but no practicing because
the documents contain only concept. You should do exercises and play around the real
system as much as you can.
2. There are 2 types of question :
a. One correct answer
b. Multiple correct answer : means that at least two choices should be chose for this
question.
Normally, there are questions of type 2 more than type 1 and no question about Tax
Question Structure
- If company code intend to use cross company code controlling, they must use the same
operational chart of accounts.
- A plant can be assigned to more than one company code.(False: A plant can be assigned
to only one company code)
Master Data
- A G/L account can have different keyword.(True or False?: Keyword is Chart of account
level)
- The account group controls the appearance of the company code segment of a G/L
account.
- If you delete a client master data at chart of account level, data in sales area segment will
be deleted.(True or False?)
Document Control
Tolerance group
User A is assigned to the XYZ tolerance group of company code 1000
The maximum amounts per document which are defined per company code 1000 in XYZ group is
150,000 units.
a. User B can’t post any document in company code 1000 (False)
b. User A can’t post any document in company code 2000 (False)
c. User A can post a invoice of 200,000 units in company code 2000.(True)
- R/3 FI document consists of a document header and one line item.(True or False? R/3 FI
document consists of a document header and up to 999 line items.)
- Document type controls the field status of the header fields “Text” and “Reference Number”
- A document type can only have one number range.(True or False?)
The posting of a down payment received is statistical posting.(True or False? It is the real posting.)
Bank optimization
The payment program will try to pay from a bank within the same clearing house system.
Postal code optimization
The payment program looks to make payment from the bank based on the customer/vendor’s city of
residence.
Payment Methods
A payment program can use more than one payment method.(True or False?)
- When using more than one payment method in the payment run, the order in which they are
entered has significance. The first method listed has the first priority, the next has second
priority,etc.. The system makes the payment using the highest priority.
Automatic Dunning
- Account will be dunned must have at least one open line item.
- The items which are overdue for a longer time than the grace periods allow are dunned.
- The due net debit items on the account are cleared with due net items of the credit side. The
credit items are assigned to the highest level of the debit items and are cleared with these
items first.
- The clerk can lower the dunning level of an item in the current dunning proposal.(True or
False?)
- In the master data and in the documents the dunning level can be raised and lowered as
desired.
- Customers without dunning procedure in the master record are dunned with a default
dunning procedure.(True or False? Customers with out dunning procedure are not dunned.)
Financial Closing
Financial statement version
In the profit and loss statement area, you can use the graduated total function-for example, to display
the result of business transactions (total of operating result and financial result) as a total.
Reconciliation Ledger
The reconciliation ledger stores all cost flows within Controlling in a summarize form.
Period-End Closing
What different between Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment?
The assessment allocates costs by using only secondary cost element.(True or False?)
Assessment was created to transfer only secondary cost from a sender cost center to receiving
controlling objects. (True or False?: Both primary and secondary cost)
Cycle-Segment
A segment can have many cycles.(True or False?: A cycle can have many segments)
Cycle with different cycle flow group can’t be processed in parallel. (True or False?)
Cross-cycle iteration is possible.(True or False?)
Internal Order
What receiver the Internal orders can settle to?
- Order
- Profitablility segment
- Cost center
- Project
- G/L Account
- Cost Center
- Asset
- Project
You can settle costs to the receivers using both original cost elements (Primary cost element /
Secondary cost element) and settlement cost elements (Secondary cost element).
What are the possible sources of data affect Profit Center Accounting?
P&L
- Billing document
- Invoice Receipt
- Goods movement
- Direct Posting from FI
Schedule Manager
Flow definition: A flow definition consists of individual flow steps. These steps include scheduling
programs with variants as jobs in the R/3 system, and user interactions that send users information in
mails.
Flow definitions are tasks scheduled in the task list.
Summary of SAP FI Certification Test (Examination Date: 22
December 2000)
Suggestions for Certification Test Preparation
1. Practice is very important point. After finish studying each day, you should take time to do
exercises at the end of the lessons. This helps you a lot to understand clearly what you have
studied. You cannot answer all questions by reading from the documents but no practicing
because the documents contain only concept. However, you should be able to apply your
concept with your consulting work so you need to understand the SAP processes and
Configuration simultaneously.
2. Concentrate at what the instructor emphasize. These often relate to the questions in the test.
3. Do not hold your questions in your mind, when you do not understand what the instructor teach,
do not hesitate to ask he or she. If not, you will forget them soon and this effects to the
understanding in the next lesson.
4. Try to participate in your group during the case study process within the last week of the class.
You will acquire overview concept and know which topics you do not understand or
misunderstand. After that, you can concentrate at specific points.
5. Read the questions and the choices in the test carefully, some words such as "only" or "may" may
make you misunderstand easily. In addition, some questions have only one answer but the
others may have more than one.
6. Before doing the test, you will receive the information in one page enclosed in the envelope. It
shows your ID and password to log on to the certification test. Do not forget to check your name
and last name for the correctness since they will be shown in you certification if you pass.
7. Please remember the questions and answers in the test for our colleagues who will study in
order to get the certification for the next time. This will be very useful so much for reading
preparation.
(Note: The details of summary are separated according to part in SAP training
documents.)
Part I
- What’s the effect after configuration if the system shows warning “Client
independent” ?
MySAP.com (2 Points)
My SAP.com Workplace – Benefits (P.8-9) (What is the key benefits of
mySAP.com workplace ?)
- Access to all necessary internal and external services through one screen
- Seamless integration in my SAP.com environment
- Portal is tailored to the user’s role in the company
- Single sing-on access all services
- User friendly Web browser interface
- Access via the internet anytime, anywhere
Marketplace Portal for Business Communities (P.8-10)
- The mySAP.com Marketplace is a public business portal hosted by SAP.
- Anyone who sells or buys can participate in the mySAP.com Marketplace. It is not
for just SAP applications or SAP customers.
- The mission of the mySAP.com Marketplace is to engineer business collaboration
across enterprises via the Internet.
Buying and Selling on the Marketplace (P.8-11)
- Marketplace Portal is a place on the Web where communities can exchange goods
and services electronically.
- Workplace is and application on a user desktop that cooperates with a Web
browser and provides a personalized, role-specific view on the entire business
world. This business world includes marketplaces, applications, services, and
content provided by a company over the Intranet or other companies via the
internet.
- The business objectives of mySAP.com are to empower people, create value, and
enable one-step business transactions. MySAP.com places the internet at the
center of SAP’s activities. It leverages all of SAP’s key assets, including its
extensive product portfolio, customer base, partner community, and expertise in
integrating business process.
MySAP.com marketplace – Benefits (P.8-12)
- Personalized home page available for registered users.
- Streamlined business process flow with one-step business
- Access to a broad scope of suppliers
- Reduce costs of interaction with external partners
- Content rich communities available for better decision making and to interact with
other business professionals
- Direct access to value add Internet services
Logging on to the R/3 System (P.9-3)
- The R/3 System is a client system. The client concept enables the joint operation,
in one system, of several enterprises that are independent of each other in business
terms. During each user session you can only access the data of the client selected
during the logon.
- A client is, in organizational terms, an independent unit in the R/3 System. Each
client has its own data environment and therefore its own master data and
transaction data, assigned user master records and charts of accounts, and specific
customizing parameters.
SAP Easy Access – Standard (P.9-5)
- You can also create a Favorites list of the transactions, reports, files and Web sites
you use most.
- You can add items to your favorite list using the Favorites menu option or by
simply dragging & dropping them with the mouse.
Role-Based User Menu (P.9-7)
- A role describes a set of logically linked transactions. These transactions represent
the range of functions users typically need at their workstations.
- Activity groups (user role) have to set up using the Profile Generator so that users
of the SAP System can work with user-specific or position-related menus. The
authorizations for the activities listed in the menus are also assigned to the users
using activity groups. With Release 4.6, predefined activity groups (user roles)
from all application areas are included in the standard system.
Organizational Structures – Levels (P.10-5)
- The highest-level element of all organizational units is the client. The client can be
enterprise group with several subsidiaries. All of the enterprise data in an R/3
System implementation is split into at least the client area, and usually into lower
level organizational structures as well.
Organizational Structures – Business Functions (P.10-6) (See the relationship
among Client, Company code, CO Area, Sales Org., Distribution Channel, Plant
and Storage Location)
Customer Master – Sales Data (P.10-9)
- Fields for customer master data are divided into Accounting and Sales areas.
Address data (General Data – Client Level) is used from both areas. In the Sales
area, information recorded can be accessed by FI and vice versa.
Clients in R/3 (P.12-2)
- Clients are used to divide data in a SAP System into various data areas for various
purposes such as training, testing etc.
- What’s the effect after configuration if the system shows warning “Client
independent” ?
Organizational Units in R/3 FI (P.12-6)
- The client is the highest level in the R/3 system hierarchy. Specifications or data
which shall be valid for all organizational units in all R/3 applications are entered
at the client level, eliminating the need to enter this in formation more than once.
Each client is a self-contained unit which has separate master records and a
complete set of tables and data.
Company Code (P.12-7)
- A company code is an independent accounting entity (the smallest organizational
element for which a complete self-contained set of accounts can be drawn up).
Company Code Components (P.12-12)
- Definition of a company code (Company code definition contains only company
name – True or False ?)
- - company name
- - city
- - country
- - currency
- - language
- - address
Business area (P.12-13)
- Business areas provide and additional evaluation level for the purpose of segment
reporting, for example.
Chart of Accounts (P.12-15)
- Each general ledger is set up according to a chart of accounts. The chart of accounts
contains the definitions of all G/L accounts in an ordered from. The definitions consist
mainly of the account number, account name, and the type of G/L account, that is,
whether the account is a P&L type account or a balance sheet type account.
Chart of Accounts Assignment (P.12-16)
A chart of accounts can be used by multiple company codes.
The Fiscal Year (P.12-18)
- The fiscal year can be defined as
- - Year-independent the same number and dates for the periods every year
- - Year-dependent periods can be differ from year to year
- To separate business transactions into different periods, a fiscal year with posting
periods has to be defined. The fiscal year is defined as a variant which is assigned
to the company code.
- The fiscal year variant contains the definition of posting periods and special
periods. Special periods are used for posting which are not assigned to time
periods, but to the process of year-end closing. In total, 16 periods can be used.
- The system derives the posting period from the posting date.
The year – Dependent Fiscal Year Variant (P.12-20)
- A fiscal year variant has to be defined as year-dependent if the start and the end
date of the posting periods of some fiscal years will be different from the dates of
other fiscal years, and/or if some fiscal years shall use a different number of
posting periods.
Reconciliation Accounts (P.13-6)
- Reconciliation accounts connect subsidiary ledgers with the general ledger in real-
time.
- The subsidiary ledgers which are connected to the general ledger via
reconciliation accounts are the A/P, A/R, and asset ledgers.
Controlling Area (P.13-9)
- The controlling area identifies a self-contained organizational structure for which
costs and revenues can be managed and allocated. It represents a separate unit of
cost accounting.
- One or more company codes can be assigned to a controlling area, which enables
you to carry out cross-company code cost accounting between the assigned
company codes. However, this is only possible if the assigned company codes and
the CO area all use the same operating chart of accounts
Group Chart of Accounts (P.13-11)
- For consolidation purposes, a group chart of accounts was set up for the two
operating charts of accounts. (Group COA is defined at Company code global data
and then Group account number will be maintained within chart of account
segment during creation of G/L Account Master data – True or False ?)
Vendor Account in SAP FI (P.13-14)
- As with G/L accounts, vendor accounts are made up of two areas:
- - General Data Account definition at client level
- - Company code specific Setting
relationship between processes and module, for example, invoice verification process
occurs in MM module but system generates the line item which effects vendor
User Defaults (P.15-3) (The date format can be set only via user defaults – True
of False ?)
- User master record: Language / Date format / Printers / Decimal notation
Document Change Rules (P.15-6)
- Differentiate each field by
- - Account type: A/P, A/R and G/L
- - Special GL transactions: Transaction classes are only used for special GL
transactions for bills of exchange and down payments.
- - Company code: If the field is blank, the rule applies to every company code.
Baseline Date (P.15-11)
- The baseline date is the starting date the system uses to calculate the invoice due
date.
Cross-Company Code Transaction (P.15-20) (A cross-company code transaction
involves only two company code – True or False?
- A cross-company code transaction involves two or more company codes in one
business transaction.
- The system will post a separate document in each company code involved.
- In order to balance debits and credits within these documents, the system
generates automatic line items which are posted to clearing accounts.
Reversing Documents (P.15-24) (It is needed to enter a reversal reason when
reversing document – True or False?)
- A document may be reversed either by: Standard reversal posting or negative
posting.
- When reversing a document, a reversal reason code must be entered to explain the
reversal.
- Documents with cleared items cannot be reversed. The document must first be
reset.
Standard Reversal Postings, Negative Postings (P.15-25)
- The standard reversal posting causes the system to post the debit in error as a
credit and the credit in error as a debit. The standard reversal posting causes an
additional increase in the transaction figures.
- The negative posting also posts the debit in error as a credit and the credit in error
as a debit. This time the posted amount is not added to the transaction figures but
it is subtracted from the transaction figure of the other side of the account. This
sets the transaction figures back to as they were before the incorrect posting took
place.
Simplifying Postings (P.16-2) (Specify the differences among reference documents,
Reconciliation accounts (P.19-13) (Reconciliation account can be defined for which account type?)
- You define a G/L account as a reconciliation account by entering the type of reconciliation
account that it is into the field “Recon. Account for acct type”
- - D for customers
- - K for vendors
Open Item Management (P.19-15) (G/L Accounts which are flagged for open item management
must always be activated at line item display – True or False?)
- Accounts with open item management must have line item display activated.
Group Chart of Accounts (P.19-21)
- For internal purposes, reporting over several company codes may be desirable. This is no
problem as long as all company codes use the same chart of accounts. However, some
company codes may have to use special charts of accounts because of legal requirements. If
this is the case for internal reporting.
- - a group chart of accounts can be used. This chart has to contain all of the group accounts.
- -The group chart of accounts has to be assigned to each operational chart of accounts. If this
is done, the field “group account number” in the chart of account segments of the operational
chart of account become a required entry field.
- - In the chart of account-segment of every operational account, the group account number has
to be entered. Different accounts of one operational chart of accounts can point to the same
group account.
Bank Master Data (P.19-24)
- The house bank-Ids and the bank types can be used by the payment program to determine the
banks to be used.
Bank Accounts (P.19-26)
- Bank accounts that are managed by house banks have to be defined as well. The accounts can
be identified by an account-ID, which is unique per house bank. The bank account data contains
the number of the account at your bank, the account currency and the G/L account which
reflects the postings on your bank account in the general ledger.
- For every bank account, a G/L account must be created. This G/L account is assigned to the
bank account and vice versa. Both accounts have to have the same account currency.
Processing the Bank Statement (1): Bank and Payment Advices (P.22-6)
- Definition of payment advices as part of statement entry, payment advices which have come into
Cash Management by way of mimo records, can be copied to the bank statement automatically.
This clears them.
Part II
Pages of the Customer/Vendor Account (P.2-6)
- Line item display and open item management are always preset to “on” for every
customer/vendor account.
- New customer and vendor master records can also be created with reference to an existing
master record. Only non-customer/vendor specific data is copied from the reference account
into the new account, i.e. no address information, etc.
AP/AR Number Ranges (P.2-8)
- Number ranges are not allowed to overlap.
- For each number range you can se whether the numbering will be internally or externally
assigned.
- Each number range can be assigned to one or more account groups.
Regular Versus One-Time Accounts (P.2-9) (Specific data such as address of one-time customer
are maintained when posting document – True or False?)
- For all customer or vendors with whom you rarely do business, a special customer and a special
vendor master record should be created. Those master records are for “One-time accounts”. In
contrast to other master records, no data specific to a single customer/vendor is stored in the
one-time master record, since this account is used for more than one customer/vendor.
Therefore, the customer-specific fields should be suppressed.
- The customer/vendor specific data for one time customers/vendors are entered into the
document at the time of posting.
Part III
Scheduling Data Transfer (P.2-6)
- Each business area is to be regarded as a financially separate unit for which an internal balance sheet and
profit and loss statement can be created.
- FI-AA works with the chart of accounts assigned to the copany code in FI.
- Each company code use on chart of account and chart of depreciation.
- All or several company codes can work with the same chart of account and the same chart of
depreciation.
- - A cost center
- - A (real) order
- - A cost center and a statistical order
Client - Asset Class (P.7-10)
- Asset classes are created at client level. They are then assigned to at least one chart of depreciation, so
you can complete the asset class with default values for your depreciation areas.
- After you have manually planned depreciation, the system does not yet create an FI document. This docu
is not generated until the depreciation posting program is run.
Part IV
Internal Orders (P.2-9)
- An Internal Order is an extremely flexible CO tool that can be used for a wide
variety of purposes to track costs and, in some cases revenues, within a controlling
area. Internal orders provide capabilities for planning, monitoring, and allocation
of costs.
- (What are the categories of internal order grouped for specific purpose?) Internal
orders may be used for a variety of purposes, there are 4 general categories;
- - Overhead orders
- - Investment orders
- - Accrual orders
- - Orders with revenue
Typical Question in Profitability Analysis (P.2-12)
- CO-PA enables yo to analyze profits and contribution margins for market
segments of your company.
Organization Units (P.2-16)
- The controlling area is the fundamental org. unit in controlling. Cost allocations
can only be performed within a controlling area. Several compnay codes may be
assigned to one controlling area, which gives the ability to perform cross-company
code controlling.
- The controlling area and its assigned company codes must always use the same
operating chart of accounts and must have the same fiscal year.
Multiple Assignment (P.2-17)
- Controlling area and company codes may have different currencies.
- You may utilize three currencies in CO:
- - CO area currency
- - Company code currency OR object currency
- - Transaction currency
- Multiple company codes from different countries can still be linked to a single
controlling area. All companies within the controlling area have to use the same
operating accounts.
The Chart of Accounts (P.3-5)
- From the cost controlling viewpoint, a circular system exists because the expense
and revenue accounts in FI correspond to primary cost and revenue elements in
CO.
- In addition, it is only in CO that you can create secondary cost elements. These
are used to record internal value flows like activity allocations, assessments and
settlements.
Document Number Assignment (P.4-5)
- You need to define number intervals for all business transactions that generate CO
documents.
Direct Activity Allocation (P.4-14)
- Direct Activity allocation enables business services provided to be measured,
entered, and allocated.
- You need to created the corresponding tracing factors in the R/3 system. These
are known as activity types in cost center accounting.
- If you want to enter a direct activity allocation, enter the cost center that provides
the activity (sender cost center), the object that receives the activity (receiver), the
type (activity type) and the quantity of the activity provided.
- Direct activity allocation is recorded by line items on the sender side and receiver
side.
Entering Statistical Key Figures (P.5-4)
- You can enter statistical key figures as a tracing factor for periodic allocations, or
for creating key figures in reporting.
Assessment (P.5-7)
- Assessment was created to transfer primary and secondary costs from a sender
cost center to receiving controlling objects.
- During assessment, the original cost elements are summarized into assessment
cost elements (Secondary cost elements category)
Overview: Periodic Reposting, Distribution, and Assessment (What’s the different between
distribution and assessment) (P.5-9)
- You can only use periodic reposting and distribution for primary cost elements.
The costs are transferred to the receivers using the original cost element, so they
are transferred to the primary cost elements of the receiver. Secondary cost
elements remain on the sender.
- The assessment allocates primary as well as secondary costs. The information on
the original primary cost elements for the sender is lost because the costs are
allocated using an assessment cost element.
Class Attention
Try to clear your point day by day or week by week because there are too many topics in
academy class.
Question Structure
Question# Number of Question % Topic
1-6 6 7.50 SAP Fundamental
7 1 1.25 IMG
8-18 11 13.75 Master Data
19-23 5 6.25 Vendor
24-27 4 5.00 Customer
28-35 8 10.00 Posting
36-38 3 3.75 Cost Center
39-41 3 3.75 Order
42-43 2 2.50 Schedule Manager
44-52 9 11.25 Asset Accounting
53-54 2 2.50 Bank Master
55-60 6 7.50 Auto Procedure
61-62 2 2.50 Cash Management
63-64 2 2.50 Production Start-up
65-67 3 3.75 Closing
68-72 5 6.25 Special Ledger
73-75 3 3.75 Integration
76-77 2 2.50 Report Painter
78-80 3 3.75 mySAP.com
Total 80 100.00
PART I
P.8-9 mySAP.com Workplace – Benefits
What is the key benefits of mySAP.com Workplace?
Key Benefits
Access to all necessary internal and external services through one screen
Seamless integration in mySAP.com environment
Portal is tailored to the user’s role in the company
Single sign-on access all services
User friendly Web browser interface
Access via the Internet anytime, anywhere
P.8-12 mySAP.com Marketplace – Benefits
What is the key benefits of mySAP.com Marketplace?
Key Benefits
Personalized home page available for registered users
Streamlined business process flow with one-step business
Access to a broad scope of suppliers
Reduce costs of interaction with external partners
Content rich communities available for better decision making and to interact
with other business professionals
Direct access to value add Internet services
P.9-11 System Functions – User Profile
What level we can set date display format?
We can set your own personal profile. You can choose
Defaults : Defaults include the date display format, the decimal notation format,
IMG = ?
SAP Reference IMG VS Enterprise IMG VS Project IMG VS View
(Rely on instructor review before test)
PART II
P.2-7 AP/AR Account Groups
The account group controls:
The number ranges of the accounts,
The status of the fields in the master record,
If the account is a one time customer or vendor.
P.2-11 Compare Master Data
However, in some cases, MM/SD creates their segments of the master record and then FI
creates their segments of the master record. In this case, there is the risk of creating incomplete
or duplicate master records. To find and correct these incomplete accounts, you can run report
Customer Master Data Comparison, or Vendor Master Data Comparison.
P.6-5 Special G/L Transaction Types
There are 3 ways that special G/L entries can be recorded in the system
Real Postings are part of the balance sheet. They are postings with a freely-definable
offsetting entry. Example: The posting of a down payment received.
Automatic offsetting entries are transactions that are always posted to the same offsetting
account. Example: Posting a guarantee.
Noted items are postings that are not intended to be displayed in the general ledger but are
only to remind you of outstanding payments due or to be made. Example: A down payment
request.
PART III
P.2-6 Scheduling Data Transfer
Programming the output program
Transfer and integration test
Transfer of master data
Posting closed in current system
Transfer of open items
Reconciliation of closing balance sheet with opening balance sheet
P.2-9 Setting the Productive Indicator
What effect occur after we check mark ‘Productive’ for each Company Code?
P.8-14 Generate Asset Classes from G/L-Accounts
There are 5 steps in generate asset class from G/L Accounts:
Account Selection
Account Determination
Number Range Intervals
Screen Layout of Asset Master Data
Asset Classes
P.9-9 Asset Explorer
What’s new dimension for display Asset information?
P.9-10 Asset Acquisition => Changes to Master Data
The following information is automatically set in the asset master record at the time of the first
acquisition posting:
Capitalization date of the asset (derived from asset value date)
Date of initial acquisition on the asset master record (derived from asset value
date)
Acquisition year and acquisition period (derived from posting date)
P.10-19 Fiscal Year Change
The fiscal year change program opens new annual value fields for each asset.
You can only process a fiscal year change in a subsequent year if the previous year has already
been closed for business.
P.10-20 Year-End Closing
The year-end closing program then checks, whether:
Depreciations was fully posted
Errors or incomplete entries exist for any assets.
If the program finds no errors, it updates the last closed fiscal year for each depreciation area
and it blocks posting in Asset Accounting for the closed fiscal year.
P.12-6 Legacy Data Transfer: Transfer Date
What data can be transferred?
At the end of the last closed fiscal year:
Master data, historical APC, accumulated depreciation at the status of the last closed fiscal
year
Legacy data transfer during the fiscal year:
In addition to the master data and cumulative values of the last closed fiscal year,
depreciation and asset transaction posted in the current year can also be transferred at the
same time.
PART IV
P.2-9 Internal Orders
Internal orders may be used for a variety of purposes, and can be grouped into 4 general
categories:
Overhead orders
Investment orders
Accrual orders
Orders with revenue
P.5-7 Assessment and P.5-8 Internal Orders
What is the differentiate between Assessment and Distribution?
Currency of Cost center?
P.15-4 Standard Ledgers and Special Purpose Ledgers
Ledgers are divided up into 2 groups:
.1 Standard ledgers : are configured and delivered by SAP.
.2 Special Purpose ledgers : are user-defined ledgers that can be maintained in the FI-SL
application.
P.15-11 Derivation of Functional Areas
By breaking down costs into functional areas of …, cost-of-sales accounting shows why costs
accrued in an enterprise and indicates the economic purpose of the expense.
Note : Please remember the questions and choices in the examination for our colleague who will get
test in next time. This will be very useful for preparation.
TAFI40
Note:
This is a list of possible review questions. We do
not guarantee that the range of these questions
is sufficient preparation for the test. The list
should be seen as a pure discussion basis for
the review day.
Have fun, and good luck!
1. Introduction
1-1 What does integration mean?
3. Organizational Structures
3-4 What is the variant principle, and how can it be used, for example, within
the framework of organizational structures?
3-5 What does the definition of the fiscal year consist of?
3-6 What is the posting period concept? What is the connection between
posting periods and the fiscal year?
3-10 How and where can restrictions be set for accountants? What posting
limits can be set?
4-1 What are account groups? What can you control using an account
group?
4-3 What is the difference between a G/L account and a general ledger
account?
4-4 What should you be particularly aware of with bank master data?
4-6 What special feature do you need to consider for asset master data?
6-3 What options do you have for dealing with incoming payments if the
amount that the customer pays does not agree exactly with the amount in
the invoice that was issued?
6-4 What two options do you have for determining the exchange rate when
you are posting a document in foreign currency? In this context, what is
the difference between currencies that are participating in European
monetary union, and those that are not?
8. Posting Control
8-1 From what sources can default values for postings be taken?
8-2 Can documents be subsequently changed, that is, after they have been
posted?
8-3 Can documents be reversed? What does reversal mean in the SAP
System? What should you take into account here? What two different
concepts are there?
8-4 What are terms of payment and how can they be used?
8-5 How are tax schemes defined in R/3 (for example, input tax, tax on sales
and purchases)?
8-6 What is the display variant function and what is it used for?
9-5 What options are there in the payment program for optimizing outgoing
payments?
9-6 What options can you set in the payment run for determining payment
methods? Where do you make these selections?
10-2 How are bank accounts and bank clearing accounts used? Describe the
transaction for posting a check, and the subsequent update of a manual
account statement.
10-3 What is the difference between the internal transaction and the posting
rule?
10-6 Can users configure the entry of checks and the manual account
statement themselves?
11. Closing Activities
11-1 What general activities have to be carried out for month-end closing in
Financial Accounting?
11-2 How is the SAP financial statement version set up? How many hierarchy
levels are possible?
12. Integration
12-1 How many plants can be assigned to how many company codes?
12-4 What is the central organizational unit for the procurement process?
12-5 What is the central organizational unit for the sales process?
13-2 What does the chart of depreciation consist of? What is the relationship
between the depreciation area and the chart of depreciation?
13-3 Explain the importance of asset classes. What asset classes are there?
13-4 From an Asset Accounting point of view, what should you take into
account for field status control?
13-5 What are transaction types? What is the connection with transaction type
groups?
13-9 What steps do you have to take into account to ensure that integration
into the general ledger for the depreciation posting run works?
13-10A fiscal year that has already been closed is, for some reason, opened for
posting again. How can you reblock the fiscal year for posting?
14-1 Explain the difference between FI and Co from a business point of view.
14-2 Explain the terms controlling area and operating concern. What is the
difference between a company code and a controlling area? What
assignments are possible? Explain the consequences.
14-3 Which currencies can you use in Controlling to carry out appropriate
valuations in the information system?
14-4 What master data is there in cost element accounting and cost center
accounting? Explain the terms and the differences between them.
14-5 What is the connection between cost elements and G/L accounts?
14-8 What is a cost center group and what assignments are possible?
14-23In which planning areas can you find cost center accounting?
Note: Depending on time and interest, you can discuss the individual
planning areas and planning options in more detail.
15. Individual Account Closing
15-1 Explain the connection between fiscal year change and year-end closing.
16-1 When would you consider using the special purpose ledger?
In what way is the FI-SL different from other SAP applications, and what
role does it play in accounting?
16-3 How are ledgers divided up? One of the groups can be divided into two
further groups that refer to different organizational units. What is this
ledger called and what is the organizational unit referred to?
16-6 When and how can you change a coding block? What do you have to
take into account when making changes?
16-7 How are the balances of the characteristic combinations selected stored
in the FI-SL?
16-10Which components can you specify for the installation of your tables?
16-13Explain the terms "validation" and "substitution". How can you create
validations and substitutions?
16-16What variable types are there and when are variables used?