Hello to all!
In this post, I highlight the available Finance related offerings available today on learning.sap.com for free.
Finance is crucial in SAP implementations as it is the backbone of any organization's operations. SAP S/4HANA integrates various financial modules that streamline and automate financial processes, including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and cash management. Implementing SAP finance modules effectively ensures accurate financial data, efficient financial operations, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Finance provides comprehensive visibility into financial transactions, enabling real-time monitoring and analysis of financial performance. It facilitates better decision-making by providing accurate financial insights and reports to key stakeholders, such as executives, managers, and auditors. Additionally, integrating finance with other SAP modules, such as sales, procurement, and production, enhances overall business efficiency and enables seamless data flow across departments.
Right now, the whole learning team responsible for producing finance content is working hard on expanding the learning offerings available on learning.sap.com. The team's focus in the current year is on the business user, meaning most of the enablement available and being built will focus on how to use SAP S/4HANA to perform core financial business tasks.
I want to highlight the available offerings and write a few words for who they might be for:
- Discovering End-to-End Business Processes for the Intelligent Enterprise is my default recommendation for anyone new to SAP to get going. If you are not sure what you are interested in yet, or you want to get a good overview of the capabilities of the SAP offerings, this is a great place to start. Unit 3 of the course focuses on crucial finance concepts and processes.
- Overview of Financials in SAP S/4HANA is a learning journey for those who want an expansive view of the finance modules. You will go over many topics, so it is great again for someone who might be "interested in finance" but is unsure yet what area to go deeper into.
- Outlining Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA will give you a great introduction to all core financial accounting (FI) areas: general ledger accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and asset accounting. You can expect separate, more advanced learning journeys for each topic in the future, but this is a great place to start.
- Outlining the Record to Report Process in SAP S/4HANA will take you a step deeper toward the core of any financial accounting system, the general ledger. Learn basic architecture and manage master data, post and manage accounting documents, and use the embedded reporting options to analyze the results of these transactions.
- Outlining Cost Management and Profitability Analysis in SAP S/4HANA is for those who want to start learning controlling (CO) and are not interested in other areas and modules. If you know, you want to learn controlling but know or are not interested in different modules, start here.
- Performing Overhead Cost Controlling in SAP S/4HANA This course is a deep dive into overhead cost controlling, which means cost center accounting and basic project controlling. After completing this learning journey, I am confident you will have skills valuable to start working with overhead cost controlling in SAP S/4HANA.
- Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Group Reporting Get to know SAP's consolidation solutions and the critical consolidation processes. This is a more specialized topic, but an excellent way to start broadening your finance solution knowledge.
- Performing Consolidation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for group reporting Our first intermediate-level learning journey will take you through the complete consolidation process in an SAP S/4HANA system. You will learn how to use group reporting to perform consolidation, which includes managing the required master data, preparing data for consolidation, consolidating the data and performing eliminations, and reporting on the consolidation results.
I will keep you all updated for new offerings in the area of finance, but for now, I hope you have enough content to dive into and start learning 🙂
