SAP R/3 EC Profit Center Accounting

Audience

This course is primarily designed for potential users interested in learning about the benefits of Profit Center Accounting within R/3. Target groups are project members part of the Profit Center employees within centralized or decentralized controlling processes and individuals responsible for Profit Centers. Participants should have completed the following courses: 12286 SD Order processing. 12280 Cost Center Accounting 1 12277 FI General Ledger 12276 FI Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable 12279 FI Balance Sheet

Objective

• The positioning of Profit Center Accounting within the accounting area.


• Profit Center Accounting within SAP R/3 and its possibilities.


• Information and value chains within the logistics and accounting area.


• The creation of SAP standard reports for period accounting cost of sales accounting and return on investment.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Introduction

• Types of profitability reports within SAP R/3.
• Profit Center Accounting.
• Definition content and goals of profitability reports.
• Types of Profit Center Accounting.
• Profit Center Accounting and SAP R/3 organization structures.
• Profit Centers and company structure.
• Profit Center master data.
• Post assignments and the connection to Profit Centers.
• Profit Center planning.

Unit 2: Transfer of Costs into the Profit Center Invoice

• Company Processes causing costs.
• Automatically books within the Profit Center invoice.
• Manual Bookings within the Profit Center invoice.
• Transfer of cost center costs.
• Transfer of order costs.
• Differences of transfer of costs within period accounting and cost of sales accounting.
• Transfer of change in stock.
• Allocation of costs to their functional areas.
• Consequences of false allocations.
• Allocation overview and dummy-Profit-Center.

Unit 3: Transfer of Revenue to the Profit Center Invoice

• Profit objects within the Profit Center invoice.
• Client order and Profit Center.
• Profit objects and material masters.
• Mass allocation of materials to Profit Centers.
• Transfer of revenue from an invoice.
• Transfer of revenue from an order.

Unit 4: Reporting

• Profitability analysis.
• Profitability analysis of the period accounting.
• Profitability analysis of the cost of sales accounting.
• Allocation of balance sheet items to Profit Centers.
• Assets accounting and stock of materials.
• Receivable and payable.
• Further balance sheet items.
• Total keys in Profit Center accounting.
• Return on investment.
• Further total keys.

Duration

7

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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