The “SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 1909)” is recommended is recommended as an entry-level qualification to allow consultants to get acquainted within Management Accounting projects. This certificate is the ideal starting point for a professional career as a Management Accounting consultant on SAP S/4HANA. If experience in SAP implementation projects of Management Accounting are added over years, a professional career can be validated by taking a second exam which focuses on the migration from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA: “SAP Certified Application Professional – Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Financials experts”.
Topic Areas:
Please see below the list of topics that may be covered within this certification and the courses that cover them. Its accuracy does not constitute a legitimate claim; SAP reserves the right to update the exam content (topics, items, weighting) at any time.
Cost Center Accounting > 12%
- Maintain cost center master data, hierarchies, and groups.
- Maintain activity types and statistical key figures.
- Perform daily operations and period end closing for cost center accounting.
- Perform planning and reporting for cost center accounting.
Product Cost Planning > 12%:
- Determine the cost component structure, define costing versions for alternative costings.
- Maintain primary cost component structure and transfer to material cost component structure.
- Perform multi-level costings.
- Carry out a price update in the material master record.
- Determine valuation variants.
- Describe reporting options in the costing transaction (costing structure, element list, component list, lot size).
- Determine costing variants.
Profitability Analysis > 12%:
- Define value fields, characteristics and summary characteristics.
- Configure profitability analysis and determine the operating concern.
- Define result analysis and revenue recognition.
- Configure period-end closing for PA.
- Configure the characteristic derivation.
- Determine valuation of value fields (e.g. costing sheet, valuation via cost component split).
- Analyze the differences between costing-based and account-based PA.
- Analyze the actual value flow to CO-PA in a sales process (make to order or sales from stock)
Cost Object Controlling > 12%:
- Configure cost object controlling – planning and actuals.
- Customize and complete cost object controlling in a make to stock scenario and a make to order scenario.
- Configure period end closing for cost objects.
- Define work in process rules (periodic view / order view).
- Determine and customize results analysis.
- Determine and customize variance calculation.
- Determine and customize valuated sales order stock.
- Determine and customize sales order item as cost object.
Internal Orders > 8% – 12% :
- Configure internal order types and maintain internal order master records.
- Perform daily operation in internal order accounting.
- Configure and perform internal order settlement and perform other period end closing activities for internal orders.
- Configure and use budgeting and commitment management.
- Perform reporting for internal orders.
Reporting > 8% – 12%:
- Determine general reporting requirements for cost centers, configure cost center reporting, and create report painter reports and drill-down reports.
Organizational Assignments and Process Integration 8% – 12%:
- Determine scopes and processes in Management Accounting and determine high-level requirements for organization units.
- Assign the controlling area to company codes and operating concern.
- Define cross-company code design. Define sales pricing, inbound freight, stock transfers.
- Configure period end closing.
Profit Center Accounting < 8% :
- Create organizational charts for profit centers, determine Profit Centers (in FI in the new GL)
- Create Profit Centers and check master data assignments, and configure period-end closing for PCA.