SAP Consultant Certification Solution Consultant Financials - Financial Accounting with mySAP ERP 2004

Software components: SAP ERP Central Component 6.0, SAP Business Information Warehouse 3.5 Certification exam is included in course TFIN54 and is also offered in separate certification events at many SAP locations. Certification ID (Booking code): C_TFIN54_04 Certification duration: 3 hours Number of certification questions: 80 Required certificates for participation in this certification test: None Courses for certification preparation: TFIN50 (Financial Accounting I), TFIN52 (Financial Accounting II), TFIN54 (Financial Accounting III (Case Study)) Please note that you are not allowed to use any reference materials during the certification test (no access to online documentation or to any SAP system). The certification test Consultant Financials - Financial Accounting with mySAP ERP 2004 verifies the knowledge in the area of the mySAP ERP for the consultant profile Financial Accounting. This certificate proves that the candidate has a basic understanding within this consultant profile, and can implement this knowledge practically in projects. The certification test consists of questions from the areas specified below:

Topic Areas
1. Financial accounting master data (++)

Chart of accounts G/L accounts Reconciliation accounts Account groups Customer and vendor accounts Bank accounts and bank keys

2. Document and posting control (++)

Document types and number ranges Posting keys and field status groups Posting periods Posting authorizations Default values Document changes, change controls Tolerance groups and payment differences Cross-company-code processes Document reversal Incoming and outgoing payments Cash discounts and terms of payment Taxes Clearing (manual and automatic) Payment differences Foreign currency and exchange rate differences Cash journal

3. Payment program, dunning program, correspondence, interest calculation (+)

Payment program configuration Payment run Creating payment media Dunning program configuration Dunning run and printing of dunning notices Correspondence configuration Creating correspondence Interest calculation configuration Interest calculation run

4. Closing operations in financial accounting (+)

Month and year-end closing Financial statement versions and reporting Receivables and payables Profit and loss Technical, organizational, and documentation steps

5. Special G/L transactions and document parking (+)

Special G/L transactions for down payments and guarantees of payment Special G/L classes and types Customizing for different special G/L transactions Park documents vs. Hold documents Basic document parking Processing parked documents

6. Asset accounting (++)

Organizational structure Master data Asset transactions (such as asset acquisition, fixed asset retirement, and asset transfer) Periodic asset accounting processing Using the information system

7. The new general ledger (+)*

Capitalization and the idea behind the new G/L New FI characteristics Scenarios and scenario allocation Document splitting Real-time integration of CO and FI New FI standard drilldown reports

8. Analysis methods in reporting (+)

Customer and vendor information systems Drilldown reporting in Financial Accounting SAP List Viewer

Info System and ABAP reports of general ledger accounting, accounts receivable accounting, and accounts payable accounting

9. Parallel accounting (+)

Basic mapping for parallel accounting in the SAP system using the classic general ledger Handling of evaluation differences in Financial Accounting:

1. Fixed assets:

Purchased fixed assets Self-constructed fixed asset

2. Current assets

Overdue recievables Open foreign currency items

3. Deferrals of depreciation

Mapping international reporting requirements:

1. Profit and loss statements by the cost of sales accounting method 2. Statement of cash flows 3. Segment reporting 4. Worksheet showing changes in provisions 10. SAP Solution Manager (+)

Overview of SAP Solution Manager

11. Implementation experience (case study or project)** (+)

Establishing enterprise structures (organizational units within mySAP Business Suite) Integration and dependencies

Amount of questions by topic (as percentage of test): + = 1 - 10% ++ = 11 - 20% +++ = over 20% No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information. Copyright SAP AG 2005.