... Acknowledgments ... 25

... Preface ... 27

... Structure and Content ... 27

1 ... Financial Accounting in SAP ERP Financials ... 31

1.1 ... SAP ERP 6.0 ... 31

1.2 ... SAP ERP Financials ... 37

1.3 ... Financial Accounting ... 39

1.4 ... Summary ... 45

2 ... Customizing SAP ... 47

2.1 ... The Implementation Guide ... 48

2.2 ... Creating a Customizing Project ... 53

2.3 ... Alternative Method to Customizing through IMG ... 59

2.4 ... Summary ... 59

3 ... Enterprise Structure ... 61

3.1 ... Organizational Units in Financial Accounting ... 62

3.2 ... Localize Sample Organizational Units ... 63

3.3 ... Define Company ... 67

3.4 ... Define Company Code ... 70

3.5 ... Define Credit Control Area ... 79

3.6 ... Define Business Area ... 87

3.7 ... Define Segments ... 91

3.8 ... Define Financial Management Area ... 93

3.9 ... Define Functional Area ... 98

3.10 ... Define Controlling Area ... 100

3.11 ... Define Profit Centers ... 106

3.12 ... Summary ... 112

4 ... Global Settings: Company Code Global Parameters ... 113

4.1 ... Activate SAP General Ledger Accounting ... 113

4.2 ... Fiscal Year and Posting Periods ... 115

4.3 ... Settings for Standard Fields ... 130

4.4 ... Settings for Customer Fields ... 135

4.5 ... Field Status ... 143

4.6 ... Ledgers for SAP General Ledger Accounting ... 148

4.7 ... Parallel Accounting ... 160

4.8 ... Real-Time Integration of Controlling with Financial Accounting ... 164

4.9 ... Chart of Accounts ... 168

4.10 ... Enter Company Code Global Parameters ... 172

4.11 ... Summary ... 179

5 ... Global Settings: Documents ... 181

5.1 ... Document Components ... 182

5.2 ... Document Types ... 186

5.3 ... Document Numbering ... 192

5.4 ... Document Change Rules ... 199

5.5 ... Posting Keys ... 201

5.6 ... Tolerance Groups ... 203

5.7 ... Define Texts for Line Items ... 209

5.8 ... Default Values ... 211

5.9 ... Document Parking ... 214

5.10 ... Validation and Substitution in Accounting Documents ... 216

5.11 ... Account Document Archiving ... 221

5.12 ... Summary ... 224

6 ... Global Settings: Tax, Inflation Accounting, and Correspondence ... 225

6.1 ... Tax on Sales and Purchases ... 226

6.2 ... Withholding Tax ... 251

6.3 ... Inflation Accounting ... 284

6.4 ... Correspondence ... 290

6.5 ... Integration with SAP Shared Services Framework ... 294

6.6 ... Summary ... 298

7 ... SAP General Ledger Accounting ... 301

7.1 ... SAP General Ledger Architecture ... 302

7.2 ... New Features in SAP General Ledger ... 304

7.3 ... SAP General Ledger Account Master Data ... 316

7.4 ... Business Transactions ... 341

7.5 ... Periodic Processing ... 395

7.6 ... Reorganization ... 407

7.7 ... Preparation for Productive Start ... 412

7.8 ... Tools ... 421

7.9 ... DataSources in SAP G/L Accounting ... 422

7.10 ... Reporting ... 424

7.11 ... Summary ... 426

8 ... Accounts Payable ... 429

8.1 ... Vendor Master Data ... 430

8.2 ... Business Transactions ... 441

8.3 ... Outgoing Payments ... 454

8.4 ... Reporting ... 489

8.5 ... Summary ... 491

9 ... Accounts Receivable ... 493

9.1 ... Customer Account Master Data ... 494

9.2 ... Business Transactions ... 506

9.3 ... Credit Management ... 522

9.4 ... Interest Calculation ... 532

9.5 ... Dunning ... 536

9.6 ... Document Reconciliation ... 554

9.7 ... Closing Operations for FI-A/R and FI-A/P ... 561

9.8 ... Analytics for Accounts Receivable ... 573

9.9 ... Reporting ... 578

9.10 ... Summary ... 578

10 ... Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable ... 581

10.1 ... Organizational Units ... 582

10.2 ... Basic Functions ... 586

10.3 ... Business Transactions ... 599

10.4 ... Integration ... 607

10.5 ... Information System ... 611

10.6 ... Summary ... 611

11 ... Bank Accounting ... 613

11.1 ... Bank Master Da