Running accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance? This is your hands-on guide! Learn how financial accounting works with the Universal Journal and understand key organizational structures. Get step-by-step instructions to perform your finance tasks for the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and customer projects and billing. With details on both classic SAP GUI transactions and modern SAP Fiori apps, as well as coverage of new event-based revenue recognition, you'll find everything you need in these pages!

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Finance Fundamentals
Explore the processes that make up financial accounting: order to cash, purchase to pay, acquire to retire, and record to report. Understand the organizational structures and general ledger master data that provide the foundation to FI.

b. Tasks and Transactions
Walk through your core accounting activities, click by click. Post journal entries in the general ledger, create customer and vendor invoices, make payments, process bank statements, manage assets, set up customer projects, and more.

c. Period-End Close and Reporting
Close your books and report on your data. In each finance subarea, perform key tasks such as reconciliation, foreign currency valuation, and reclassifications. Learn about key transactions and apps that are available for reporting.

Highlights include:

1) General ledger accounting
2) Accounts payable
3) Accounts receivable
4) Fixed assets
5) Customer projects
6) Event-based revenue recognition
7) Organizational structure
8) Period-end close
9) Reporting
10) SAP GUI transactions
11) SAP Fiori applications