• Introduction to ERP,  and  S.A.P
• What is S.A.P / R/2-R/3 ARCHITECTURE
• A.P Server landscape
• OVER VIEW OF FICO

• Definition of company
• Definition of company code
• Assignment of company to company code
• Definition of business area
• Definition of fiscal year variant
• Assignment of fiscal year variant to company code
• Definition of posting period variant
• Assignment of posting period variant to company code
• Open and close posting period
• Defining document type & number ranges
• Maintenance  of field status variants
• Assignment of field status variant to company code
• Definition of tolerance groups for GL accounts
• Definition of tolerance groups for employees
• Assignment of tolerance groups   to users
• Taxes on Sales & Purchases (input & output)
• Creation of chart of Accounts
• Defining Accounts Groups

• Creation of General Ledger Master (with and with out reference)
• Display/Change/Block/Unblock of general ledger master
• Document Entry posting normal postings and posting with reference
• Display and change of documents
• Display of GL balances
• Display GL account line items
• Parked documents
• Hold documents
• Creation of Sample Document and postings with  sample documents
• Defining recurring entry document and postings with recurring doc.
• Creation of account assignment model and posting
• Configuration of line layouts for display of GL line items
• Reversal of individual documents, mass reversal , reversal of cleared items
• and reversal of accrual and deferral documents
• Defining Exchange Rate types and Translation ratios
• Define Exchange rates &  posting of foreign currency transactions
• Interest calculations on term loans

• Creation of vendor account groups
• creation of number ranges for vendor master records
• assignment of number ranges  to vendor account groups
• Creation of tolerance group for venders
• Creation of vendor master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
• Posting of vendor transactions (invoice posting, payment posting, credit memo)
• Settings for advance payments to parties (down payment) and clearing of down payment

            against invoices  (special GL transactions)

• Posting of partial Payment & Residual Payment
• Creation of payment terms,
• Creation of house banks and account ids.
• Creation of check lots and maintenance of check register
• display check register
• cancellation of  un issued checks
• creation of void reasons
• cancellation of issued checks
• posting of purchase returns             
• Configuration of automatic payment program
• Payment to vendors through APP
• Defining correspondence & party statement of accounts

• Creation of customer account groups
• creation of number ranges for customer master records
• assignment of number ranges  for customer account groups
• Creation of tolerance group for customers
• Creation of customer master (display/change/block/unblock of vender master)
• Posting of customer transactions (sales invoice posting, payment posting, debit memo)
• Settings for advance payment from parties (down payment)
• Configuration of settings for dunning
• generating the dunning letters
• defining correspondence and party statement of accounts
• Bills of exchange
• posting of sales returns

• Defining chart of depreciation
• Creation of 0% tax codes for sales and purchased
• Assignment of chart of depreciation to company code
• Defining account determination
• Definition of screen lay out rules
• Definition of number ranges for asset classes
• Integration with General Ledger & Posting rules
• Defining Depreciation key
• Definition of multilevel methods
• Definition of period control methods
• Creation of main asset master records
• Creation of sub asset master records
• Acquisition of fixed assets    
• Sale of fixed assets
• Transfer of assets
• Scrapping of assets,
• Depreciation run
• Line item Settlement of assets under construction
• Of capital work in progress

• Parallel ledgers
• Document splitting
• Segments

• Definition of organizational units in materials management i.e.
• Plant, storage location and purchase organization
• Assignment of organizational units to each other
• Definition of tolerance groups for purchase orders
• Definition of tolerance groups for goods receipt
• Definition of tolerance groups for invoice verification
• Definition of vendor specific tolerances
• Creation, display and change of material master records
• Creation of plant parameters
• Maintenance of posting periods for materials management
• Maintenance of parameters for invoice verification
• Maintenance of plant parameters for inventory management and  physical inventory
• Definition of attributes for material types
• Assignment of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting
• (Integration of MM with FI)
• Creation of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification and          
• Goods issue for production

• Definition of sale s organization
• Definition of distribution channels
• Definition of divisions
• Assignment among various organizational units in SD
• Definition of partner functions
• Definitions of shipping point and loading points
• Definition of pricing procedures
• Determining the shipping points
• Determining the pricing procedures
• Maintenance of SD condition types
• Maintenance of condition records
• Assignment of GL accounts for sales transactions (integration of FI with SD)
• Creation of sales order
• Initialization of stock
• Posting the delivery of goods
• Creating the sales invoice

• Defining Controlling Area
• Defining Number ranges for Controlling Area
• Maintain Planning Versions

• Creation of primary cost elements from  financial accounting area
• Creation of primary cost elements from controlling area
• Display of cost element master records
• Change cost element master records
• Primary cost element categories
• Secondary cost element categories
• Default account assignments

• Defining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
• Creation of Cost Centers and cost center groups
• Display cost center master records
• Change cost center master records
• Creation of cost center groups
• Posting to cost centers
• Reposting of co line items
• Repost of Costs
• Planning for cost centers
• Overhead Calculation
• Creation of secondary cost element master records
• Creation and Execution of Distribution Cycle
• Creation and execution of assessment cycles
• Cost center reports

• Defining order types
• Creation of internal order master records
• Display internal order master records
• Change internal order master records
• Postings to internal orders
• Planning for internal orders
• Reposting co line items for internal orders
• Repost of costs for internal orders
• Report of Variance analysis for internal orders
• Creation of real internal orders
• Posting of business transaction to real orders
• Definition of allocation structures
• Definition of settlement profiles
• Definition of planning profiles
• Settlement of real internal orders
• Budgeting and availability control
• Maintain number ranges for budgeting
• Define tolerances for availability control
• Specification of exempt cost elements fr4om availability control
• Maintenance of budget manager

• Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting
• Creation of Dummy Profit Centers
• Maintenance of control parameters for actual postings
• Maintaining planning versions for profit centers
• maintaining the number ranges for profit center documents
• Creation of profit center master records
• Display of profit center master records
• Changing the profit center master records
• Creation of revenue cost elements
• Automatic Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
• Assignment of profit centers in cost center master records
• Creation of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
• Planning for profit and loss account items
• Planning for balance sheet items
• Posting of transactions into profit centers
• Generating the variance reports for profit and loss account items

• Maintaining the operating concern
• Define profitability segment characteristics
• Assignment of controlling area to operating concern
• Activating the profitability analysis
• Define number ranges for actual postings
• Mapping of SD conditions types to COPA value fields
• Creation of reports

• Creation of bill materials
• Creation of activity type master records
• Planning for activity hours
• Activity type price calculation
• Creation of work center master records
• Creation of routings
• Defining cost sheet (over head structures)
• Assignment of cost sheet to costing variant
• Creation of cost estimate with quantity structure
• Marking
• Releasing
• Creation of cost estimate without quantity structure

Pros:

1. Demand – Ever since the businesses around the world witnessed the effective financial and controlling mechanisms with the help of SAP FICO, the demand and strength of SAP FICO users is on upstream. Thus, by taking up the SAP FICO training course, you can be assured of career scope and demand for the skills you’ve acquired.
2. Salary – In the United States, the average salary paid to SAP Fico professional is $107000 – according to Indeed. And many other surveys and experts predicted that the salary may rise in accordance with the demand.
3. Career Prospects – In a world of consistent technology upgradations, it is very hard for any career to withstand for more than two decades. But when it comes to SAP FICO, the demand would definitely be there for a long time than any other career.

Cons:

Well, we can’t say this a con. But among all the SAP modules, SAP-FICO in particular, require adequate maturity and expertise in order to accomplish the tasks. Thus, it takes 4 to 5 months to get around the field and mature. You need to stay focussed and gain expertise.

Career Ladder of SAP FICO

Managing Director (SAP FICO)

SAP FICO Project Manager

SAP FICO Lead

SAP FICO Specialist

Senior SAP FICO Consultant (or) Senior SAP FICO Analyst

SAP FICO Consultant (or) SAP FICO Analyst