Online Course
Essential FI: Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
with Steve Turner
06/09/2026 – 06/30/2026
The course in detail:
Are finance operations in your wheelhouse? Learn how to optimize your system for core FI with this kick-start course on SAP S/4HANA! First explore the deployment models, tables, and UIs that improve financial accounting at the outset. Then see how general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and asset accounting are typically run in SAP S/4HANA—with a look at the configuration settings that support them.
For new entrants to the SAP space, establish the essential FI infrastructure; for mid-career practitioners, reset your frame of reference for financial accounting in the SAP S/4HANA world!
What you'll learn:
- Understand how SAP S/4HANA runs your financial accounting processes
- Dive into FI subledgers: G/L, AP, AR, AA and more!
- Learn how postings and documents flow through your system
- Review underlying configuration to facilitate customization
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 3:00 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this FI course suitable for?
- New or upskilling FI-CO consultants
- SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation teams and leads
- FI business process owners
Prerequisite: Attendees should have familiarity with financial accounting fundamentals (double-entry bookkeeping; trial balance, balance sheet, and profit and loss statements; an accruals, prepayments, and provisions), an understanding of core AR/AP concepts, and some exposure to SAP S/4HANA objects (company code, chart of accounts, G/L accounts, customers and vendors, document headers and line items.) If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
The following topics are outside the scope of this course:
- Financial supply chain management
- Special G/L transactions (i.e. down payments, guarantees, bills of exchange)
- Advanced general ledger/parallel accounting design
- Funds management/public sector management
- Revenue recognition/revenue accounting and reporting
- Lease accounting and real estate management
- Advanced treasury, cash, and bank communication management
These controlling topics will be covered in this course:
- SAP S/4HANA platform and navigation
- Finance and controlling structures and master data
- Core postings and document controls
- Tax code determination
- Asset depreciation keys, depreciation run, and asset reporting
- Period-end orchestration and accruals
- Business partner roles
- Payment terms
- Accounts payable invoices and MM integration
- Accounts receivable, incoming payments, and clearing
- Automatic payments and dunning
- AP/AR analytics
- Bank accounting and cash position
- FI-CO integration basics
- Financial reporting
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Finance Structures, Master Data, and Core Postings
Learn how SAP S/4HANA stores your FI data in the Universal Journal and displays it via apps and transactions. See how to post, park, and reverse FI documents, and run through an end-to-end posting scenario from the G/L through AP and AR transactions.
Topics:
- SAP S/4HANA platform
- Finance organizational and master data
- Core postings and document controls
- Foundational FI posting flow
General Ledger Controls, Taxes, Fixed Assets, and Financial Close
Take a close look at tax determination! Then turn your attention to asset acquisition, depreciation, and reporting. Walk through the key steps in a basic month-end close sequence!
Topics:
- Tax code determination
- Asset accounting master data and acquisition
- Depreciation keys, depreciation run, and asset reporting
- Period-end orchestration and accruals
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable with Payments and Dunning
Understand the relationship between your company and its customers and vendors, and then see how your organization’s money moves into and out of SAP S/4HANA through accounts payable and receivable processes!
Topics:
- Business partner roles
- Payment terms
- AP/AR master data
- Invoices
- MM integration
- Incoming payments
- Clearing
- Automatic payments
- Dunning
- AP/AR analytics
Banking, Cash, CO Integration, and Financial Reporting
Finish the series with an overview of bank accounting. Then string everything you’ve learned together: interpret the impact of FI postings on CO and profit center reporting, and understand the dependencies between your operational postings and period-end processes.
Topics:
- Bank accounting
- Cash position
- Cost objects in financial postings
- Financial reporting
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Your Experts
Steve Turner is a seasoned SAP consultant with more than 20 years of extensive experience integrating the latest SAP technologies, such as SAP S/4HANA Finance and group reporting/consolidation in manufacturing, mining, energy, and public sector industries. He has led cross-functional design teams and conducted user acceptance testing while facilitating ideal execution of SAP S/4HANA implementations. As a solution-oriented IT expert, he has been instrumental in gathering and documenting business requirements and aligning with best practices. His expertise lies in process improvement, SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation, and SAP finance and management accounting.
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