SAF FI Interview Questions
SAF FI Interview Questions
SAF FI Interview Questions
2. How many Normal and Special periods will be there in fiscal year, why
do u use special periods?
Ans: 12 Normal posting period and 4 special periods are in the fiscal year
which can be used for posting tax and audit adjustments to a closed fiscal year.
For each G/L account, the chart of accounts contains the account number,
account name, and the information that controls how an account functions and
how a G/L account is created in a Company code.
You have to assign a chart of accounts to each company code. This chart of
accounts is the Operating chart of accounts and is used for the daily postings in
this company code.
You have the following options when using multiple company codes.
You can use the same chart of accounts for all company codes
If the company codes all have the same requirements for the chart of accounts
set up, assign all of the individual company codes to the same chart of
accounts. This could be the case if all company codes are in the same country.
In addition to the operating chart of accounts, you can use two additional charts
of accounts If the individual company codes need different charts of accounts,
you can assign up to two charts of accounts in addition to the operating chart of
accounts. This could be the case if company codes lie in multiple countries.
The use of different charts of accounts has no effect on the balance sheet and
profit and loss statement. When creating the balance sheet or the profit and loss
statement, you can choose whether to balance the co! mpany codes which use
different charts of accounts together or separately.
13) How do you control field status of GL master records and from where
do you control!
Ans: Field status variant is maintained all FSGs.
16) What is Country and operational chart of account? Why do you use
group chart of account?
Ans: Operational chart of account – Day to day activities It is mandatory.
Country COA – It’s used for legal specific requirement of each country. It’s
additional and optional.
Group COA used for consolidation of Company codes. This is for group
consolidation purpose.
18) What is open line item management? What do you mean by clearing
open line items?
Ans: Open item management is further reconciliation function. OIM allows you
to display the open and cleared items and amounts in an account. OIM should
be used if an offsetting entry is made for every line item posted in the account.
The a/c is reconciled and cleared against another account. Ex. Salary clearing
account and GR/IR Clearing account.
The Baseline date is used to calculate the due date by taking into account the
payment terms. On the APP, the baseline date helps to pick the relevant
invoices for payment. During the APP run when invoices are pulled into the
run, the system checks the ‘Next Payment Date’ before picking the invoices to
be paid.
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Company code should have same financial year, may have different
currencies.
You can assign 2 or more company codes to one controlling area as long as the
chart of accounts are same. Furthermore, if you have different fiscal year
variant in the company code, then make sure that the number of period remain
the same.
Yes it is posiiable , but in such situation cost centre will be real and production
order is stastical.
If you assign both cost center and Prd Order then since Prod. Order are real co
object, Cost center entry would be statistical.
The question is not very clear. If you are talking about CO Master data. Then
Cost center need to be uploaded. You can use Data Transfer Workbench or
write abap for it.
You use use further selection in proposal paramater, if you would like to filter
the open item based on the city
Field status.
11. After entering a document can you delete the entry? Can you change
the document?
Which fields’ can/not is changed?
Document header cannont be changed, after posting the document you cannot
change. only if you want to change the document the reseversal entry.
The transaction other than A/P and A/R is called the special g/l transaction for
ex: Bills of exchange, Interest payable , aqusition
14. What is base line date? Why is that used? Can this be changed?
15. How many statistical objects can be selected in when you post an FI
document?
Where CCtr, PCtr, OM are active?
hat are the frequently asked questions on SAP FICO Interview Questions?
5. while defining chart of account, there is field " manual creaation of cost
element" and "automatic creation of cost element". what is it?
A. Generally when ever we are creating cost elements we can create some of
exependitures manually some automatically so we can create manually cost
elements in defining chart of accounts.
A. We can check through customer group and vendor group it was created by
ours when we are creating vendor and customer groups.
7. How the system will know that april is your first posting period?
A. Yes the system will find out april was first posting period. While
configuring fiscal year we giving april to 1 may to 2, june to 3, like this system
will identify april was the first posting period.
8. Define the term "fiscal year" , "posting period varient" & " field status
varient".
A. FSGV controls the additional account assignments and other fields that can
be posted at the line item level for GL a/c. FSGV can be control at three level
i.e.,
1) In OBC4 (ch of a/c’s) - which controls the screen for a particular GL a/c
group,
2) Posting Keys - which controls the screen for a particular posting key
transaction is taken, &
A. Posting period variant which controls posting periods, both normal and
special periods are open for each company code. The posting period is
independent of fiscal year variant.
A. Fiscal year is controls the which type year we are following like calendar
year, year dependent year,.
a) [ ] The internet revolution could turn available to companies the use of ERP
functionality.
b) [ ] The next generation of “new dimension” products appeared taking
functionality out of the company, to bring value through extending the Internet
Revolution.
c) [ ] The internet has driven to a collaborative environment where value is
created through collaboration within business comunities.
d) [ ] In the first the companies were looking at Cost reduction and efficiency
through integration of business comunities.
2. About the definition of ERP and e-business functionalities, we can say that
(Note: we can have more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences
you think they are correct):
a) [ ] ERP offers enterprise centric functionality (general ledger, payroll, order
entry) to integrate core, internal processes.
b) [ ] ERP is mySAP Financials and mySAP HR.
c) [ ] ERP is SAP R/3, while e-business is mySAP.com.
d) [ ] About Business Model, ERP can be considered as enterprise centric and
e-business, as extended and collaborative.
e) [ ] About Architecture, ERP can be considered as an integrated system and
e-business, as an integrated system and an open integration platform.
f) [ ] About Processes, ERP can have them integrated, core within enterprises
and collaborative, beyond company boundaries.
5. What can we say about ALE (Application Link Enabling, Note: we can have
more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are
correct)?
7.1. The variant principle is a three-step method used in R/3 to assign special
properties to one or more R/3 objects.
7.2. One of the disadvantages to use variants is that it can't deal with the
maintenance of properties, which are common among several business objects.
7.3. For using the variant principle, you must define the variant, populate it
with values and assign it to the R/3 objects.
7.4. This principle is used for Fiscal Years, Posting Periods and so on.
a) [ ] It is a variant which the postings periods are only equal to the months of
the year.
b) [ ] It is a variant which you can define different number of periods,
according to the year.
c) [ ] It is a variant which each own fiscal year uses the same number of
periods, and the postings periods always start and end at the same day of the
year.
d) [ ] It is a variant which allows the use of different number of posting
periods.
e) [ ] It is a variant not normally used because of its particularity.
10.1. The currency code identifies each currrency that will be used into R/3
system.
10.2. You have to define all the worldÂ’s currency into R/3 system
10.3. Exchange rate types distinguishes the exchange rates to be considered for
various purposes, such as valuation, translation, conversion, planning, etc.
Which of them is true (Note: we can have more than one correct sentence.
Please select the sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] 10.1.
b) [ ] 10.2.
c) [ ] 10.3.
d) [ ] none of them.
e) [ ] all of them.
11. Consider the following sentences:
a) [ ] 12.1.
b) [ ] 12.2.
c) [ ] 12.3.
d) [ ] none of them.
e) [ ] all of them.
a) [ ] all of them.
b) [ ] none of them.
c) [ ] 12.3.
d) [ ] 12.2.
e) [ ] 12.1.
14. What of these alternatives are considered master data (Note: we can have
more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are
correct)?
a) [ ] Chart of Accounts.
b) [ ] G/L Accounts.
c) [ ] Vendor.
d) [ ] Customer.
e) [ ] Asset.
15. What can we define into the chart of accounts customizing transaction
(OB13 transaction, Note: we can have more than one correct sentence. Please
select the sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] Description.
b) [ ] Maintenance language.
c) [ ] Length of the company code.
d) [ ] Length of the G/L account number.
e) [ ] Blocking / unblocking chart of accounts.
16. Consider the following sentences about the chart of accounts segment:
16.1. It contains the Company Code, Account number and the field status
group.
16.2. Whenever you need to enter information for a company code for an
account number, you have to type again the information related to chart of
accounts segment.
16.3. Texts can be displayed using the program “Account assignment
manual”(RFSKTH00).
16.4. Key words facilitate the search for account numbers.
Which of these combinations are false (Note: we can have more than one
correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] 16.1.
b) [ ] 16.2.
c) [ ] 16.3.
d) [ ] 16.4.
e) [ ] none of them.
17.1. Every company code that needs to use an account from the assigned chart
of accounts has to create its own company code segment.
a) [ ] True b) [ ] False
17.2. For P+L statement accounts, the balance is carried forward to the same
account.
a) [ ] True b) [ ] False
17.4. Number intervals for G/L account master records can overlap.
a) [ ] True b) [ ] False
Which of the options below matches the blank spaces of those sentences?
Which of the options below matches the blank spaces of those sentences?
Answers:
1. C
2. A, C, D, E.
3. D
4. A, B, C, D, E.
5. B, D, E.
6. A
8. B
9. C
10. A, C.
Most of the world’s currencies are already defined into R/3 system.
11. B
Be careful: A base currency can only be used for an average rate, not for a
selling or a buying rate.
12. A
13. E
14. B, C, D, E.
A chart of accounts is a variant, which contains the structure and the basic
information about general ledger accounts.
15. A, B, D, E.
16. A, B.
17. True or false:
17.1. True.
17.2. False. For P+L statement accounts the balance is carried forward to a
retained earnings account and the P+L statement account is set to zero.
17.3. True.
17.4. True.
17.5. False. It is possible to influence the appearance of an account’s master
data using the field status.
18. D
19. D
20. E
. Since the line item display takes up additional system resources, you should
only use it if there is no other way of looking at the line items. So, you should
not activate the line item display for the following accounts (Note: we can
have more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they
are correct):
a) [ ] P+L Statement.
b) [ ] Reconciliation.
c) [ ] Revenue.
d) [ ] Material Stock.
e) [ ] Tax.
2.1. Accounts with open item management must have line item display
activated.
2.2. You can activate or deactivate open item management everytime, even if
the account hasnÂ’t a zero balance.
2.3. You can select both local and foreign currencies as account currency.
2.4. If the account is the local currency, the account can only be posted to this
currency.
2.5. When using the “Only Balances in Local Currency” indicator in the
master data record, transaction figures are only managed for amounts translated
into local currency.
Which of the above statements are true (Note: we can have more than one
correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] 2.1.
b) [ ] 2.2.
c) [ ] 2.3.
d) [ ] 2.4.
e) [ ] 2.5.
3. True or false?
3.1. The “Only Balances in Local Currency” indicator must not be set in
reconciliation accounts for customers or vendors.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
3.2. The “Only Balances in Local Currency” indicator is usually set in balance
sheet accounts that are not managed in foreign currencies and not managed on
an open item basis.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
3.5. The usage of a financial statement version for the group chart of accounts
is optional.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
5.1. You cannot use the country chart of accounts if you desire to use the cross-
company code controlling.
5.2. The disadvantage of using country chart of accounts is the accounting
clerks who may be familiar with the country chart of accounts first have to get
used to using the operational chart of accounts.
5.3. Reconciliation accounts are updated on a daily basis.
6. Which are the segments of the SD view of the customer account master data
(Note: we can have more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences
you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] Client.
b) [ ] Company Code.
c) [ ] Controlling Area.
d) [ ] Sales Area.
e) [ ] Purchasing Organization.
7. Which are the segments of the MM view of the customer account master
data (Note: we can have more than one correct sentence. Please select the
sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] Client.
b) [ ] Company Code.
c) [ ] Controlling Area.
d) [ ] Sales Area.
e) [ ] Purchasing Organization.
8. What is the segment that makes complete both customer and vendor
accounts (Please choose the correct sentence)?
a) [ ] Client.
b) [ ] Company Code.
c) [ ] Controlling Area.
d) [ ] Sales Area.
e) [ ] Purchasing Organization.
Which of the above statements are true (Note: we can have more than one
correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are correct)?
a) [ ] 10.1.
b) [ ] 10.2.
c) [ ] 10.3.
d) [ ] 10.4.
e) [ ] 10.5.
11.1. For every bank that is used in the system (for example, as a house bank or
as a customer/vendor bank) you have to create a bank master record.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
11.2. Banks that are used by your company are defined as house banks.a) [ ]
True. b) [ ] False.
11.3. You cannot create bank master data when entering bank information in
the customer or vendor master record.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
11.4. Bank Account and G/L Account are the same master data object.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
11.5. Customers that use the lockbox function can create a batch input session
that automatically updates customer banking information in the master record.
a) [ ] True. b) [ ] False.
12.1. The system can assign the document numbers or the user can assign
the number during document entry.
12.1. A business transaction creates only one document.
12.3. Document types are defined at company code level.
12.4. Number ranges for document numbers and account types defined for
postings are defined by the document types.
12.5. Document types also define whether invoices are posted with the net
procedure.
13. What do the posting keys specify (Note: we can have more than one correct
sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are correct)?
14.1. A company code must be assigned to a posting period variant to have the
control for posting periods.
14.2.‘+’ symbol represents all account types in the posting period customizing
screen.
14.3. The account interval in the posting period customizing screen can be both
G/L and subledger accounts.
14.4. The maximum amounts are defined per company code in “tolerance
groups”.
14.5. It is not possible to assign tolerance groups to user logon ID’s.
a) [ ] Fiscal Year.
b) [ ] Reference Number.
c) [ ] Text fields.
d) [ ] Header text.
e) [ ] Posting date.
16. About the change control, what conditions below are applicable (Note: we
can have more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think
they are correct)?
a) [ ] 16.1.
b) [ ] 16.2.
c) [ ] 16.3.
d) [ ] 16.4.
e) [ ] 16.5.
17. What are the prerequisites to enable negative postings (Note: we can have
more than one correct sentence. Please select the sentences you think they are
correct)?
18. What is the purpose of the terms of payment (Please choose the correct
sentence)?
a) [ ] Calculate a cash discount and invoice due date.
b) [ ] Calculate the tax amounts.
c) [ ] Enable the cross-company code transactions.
d) [ ] Define the baseline date.
e) [ ] Calculate only the required conditions for SD invoices.
19.1. Terms of payments are copied from invoice to credit memos when they
are linked to.
19.2. Inserting a “V” in the invoice reference field during document entry
means the terms of payment are activated in the
non-invoice-related credit memos.
19.3. The account type field in terms of payment basic data screen should be
defined separately, to prevent any done change in the term of payment.
19.4. The system cannot define the splitment of an installment payment, at least
you define it in the terms of payment.
19.5. The day limits define the dates of the cash discount periods.
Which of the statements above is false (Please choose the correct sentence)?
a) [ ] 19.1.
b) [ ] 19.2.
c) [ ] 19.3.
d) [ ] 19.4.
e) [ ] 19.5.
3. True or false:
3.1. True.
3.2. True.
3.3. False. Accounts with a foreign currency as an account currency can only be
posted to in this foreign currency.
3.4. True.
3.5. False. You must use a financial statement version for the group chart of
accounts.
4. C.
Item “a” is related to Collective Processing for G;L Accounts Master Data.
Item “b” is not true for the R/3 system concept. If the account currency is the
local currency, the account can be posted to in any currency.
Item “d” and “e” are some actions to be done for using group chart of accounts,
so, they are not the disadvantage.
5. B.
In fact, since all company codes use the same operational chart of accounts for
postings, you can carry out cross-company code controlling. About
Reconciliation accounts, they are updated realtime.
6. A, D.
7. A, E.
8. B.
9. A, D.
10. B, C, D.
11.1. True.
11.2. True.
11.3. False. In fact, we can create bank master data when entering bank
information in the customer or vendor master record.
11.4. False. Each bank account is reflected in the SAP System by a
combination of house bank ID and account ID. This combination is entered in a
G/L account that represents the bank accounting the general ledger.
11.5. True.
12. A.
13. A, B, C, E.
14. D.
15. B, C.
16. B, D, E.
17. A, B, C.
18. A.
19. E.
The day limits are used to store several versions of terms of payment under the
same terms of payment key.
Clent--->Operation Concern(Co-pa)--->Controlling
area(1:N)---> Company Codes(1:N)
Q. What is the T Code for Uploading the Bulk Vendor master data ?
Ans. one of the option is through LSMW,BDC
Q. What do you mean by Goods Clearing ? What are the journal entries for
Clearing of Goods ?
Ans. It mean which is the real cost posting that is cost carrier
for example whenever create the Internal order as a real
order then when we use this real order to book the general
entry for expences side real cost posted to internal order
and static post the cost center.
RFFOUS
Expamle:-
In your office you make the CANTEEN is cost center. Canteen
is provides the service to other cost centers like TEA,
Coffee, etc. You allocated the TEA, Coffee Amount to others
cost center that thru secondary cost element.