1. Define the major organizational hierarchy elements within the Financial Accounting module and explain the relationship between each of them.

The hierarchy, from the highest organizational unit to the lowest, is the Client, Chart of Accounts (COA), Company Code and the optional Business Areas (BA). Two other optional areas include the Dunning Area and the Credit Control Area (CCA). Credit Control Areas come above the Company Code, and Dunning Areas come below the Company Code. There is only one Client and its values are the same across all Company Codes that are attached to it. Every Company Code is a legal independent entity. Business Areas can be shared among Company Codes (many-to-many relationship) and they are used for internal reporting purposes. Each Company Code is assigned a COA. The COA may be the same for multiple Company Codes, but each Company Code may only use one COA.
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1. What are the two major areas within the SAP environment? Describe each.

(1) Configuration – Maintenance of settings in the system to support customized business requirements of the client.
(2) Application – On going processes required to record and report business activity.

2. What are the two methods available for accessing the configuration functions in FI? Describe each.

• Implementation Guide (IMG) – leads you through the steps required for configuration in an implementation.
• Transaction codes – takes you directly to the first screen of a transaction without the use of the IMG or menu paths.
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1. What is the SAP Financial Accounting (FI) module?
The SAP Financial Accounting (FI) Module provides integrated, on-line, real-time functionality for processing, recording and maintaining the financial accounting transactions of the business for external reporting purposes.

2. List and describe sub-modules of FI?

• Accounts Receivable (A/R) – sub-module where customer transactions are recorded and administered within FI.
• Accounts Payables (A/P) – sub-module where vendor transactions are recorded and administered within FI.
• General Ledger (G/L) – submodule where financial accounting data for a legal entity is recorded.
• Special Ledger (S/L) – provides summary information from multiple applications at a level of detail that the user defines that provides summary information from multiple applications at user defined levels.
• Asset Accounting (AA)- encompasses the entire lifetime of the assets from purchase order or the initial acquisition through retirement. To a large extent the system automatically calculates the values for depreciation, interest, insurance.
• Legal Consolidations: (FI-LC) is the sub-module with the central task of combining the financial operating results of the companies within a group to provide overall results for the group.
• Funds Management: (FI-FM) is the sub-module that supports financial checking and control using budgeting techniques.
• Travel Management (FI-TM): processes business trip and expense data. It may be integrated with HR (Personnel Data and Payroll).

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Here is a set of two documents with question and answers for TAW10.  It will definitely help you to improve your ABAP skills.

Download ABAP Basics (389) & ABAP Objects (227).

To upload Sales Order data from SAP R/3 to BI using generic DataSources
Integrating SAP data (R/3 or BW Data) with the BO-Xcelsius (Business Objects) using BSP

1. SAP BSP + BO-Xcelsius (Excel XML Maps Connection)
2. SAP BSP + BO-Xcelsius (web Service Connection)
3. SAP BSP + BO-Xcelsius (XML Data Connection)

Integrating BO-Xcelsius (SWF) file with BO-Crystal Reports

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