S4F12 – Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting

Upcoming Schedule

Course	Date	Duration	Delivery Method
Basics of Customizing for Financial Accounting (S4F12)	3-Nov-2025 to 7-Nov-2025	5 days	VLC
	9-Feb-2026 to 13-Feb-2026		VLC
	11-May-2026 to 15-May-2026		VLC
	17-Aug-2026 to 21-Aug-2026		VLC
	8-Nov-2026 to 13-Nov-2026		VLC

Overview

The course provides an overview of how to implement Financial Accounting capabilities of SAP S/4HANA in order to cover the related business requirements. You will gain the mandatory foundation knowledge required in order to understand and configure business processes for the SAP S/4HANA financials module in the areas of general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable accounting. For the Master Data, the Document Control/Posting Control and Financial Document Clearing you will practice some configurations and verify the result by using the application.

Goals

• Provide an overview of basic customizing settings in the main components of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
• Configure the Master Data Settings (G/L Accounts, Customer and Vendor Accounts) of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
• Configure the Document Control and Posting Control Settings of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA
• Configure the Settings for Financial Document Clearing of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA

Content

• Short Overview of SAP S/4HANA
• Core Financial Accounting (FI) Configuration
• Managing Organizational Units in Financial Accounting (FI)
• Checking the Basic Settings in General Ledger (G/L)
• Accounting
• Outlining the Variant Principle
• Managing Fiscal Year Variants
• Master Data
• Maintaining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts
• Managing Customer and Vendor Accounts (BP)
• Document Control
• Configuring the Header and Line Items of Financial Accounting
• (FI) Documents
• Managing Posting Periods
• Managing Posting Authorizations
• Posting Control
• Analyzing Document Splitting
• Maintaining Default Values
• Configuring Change Control
• Configuring Document Reversal
• Configuring Payment Terms and Cash Discounts
• Maintaining Taxes and Tax Codes
• Posting Cross-Company Code Transactions
• Financial Document Clearing
• Performing Open Item Clearing
• Managing Payment Differences

Audience

• Application Consultant
• Business Process Owner / Team Lead / Power User

Prerequisites

Essential: S4F10 Business Processes in Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA

Recommended: Knowledge in the Financial Accounting