In SAP, purchasing and sales documents create accounting entries automatically. This guide explains how FICO connects to MM and SD, and the account determination that makes it work.
Most postings in a running SAP system do not come from someone typing a journal entry. They come from a goods receipt in MM or a billing document in SD, which create accounting documents automatically. A FICO consultant needs to understand these flows because they configure the accounts that these documents hit.
This is also a favourite interview topic, because it shows whether a candidate understands the whole system and not only the finance screens.
The GR/IR account should be near zero over time. Open items there show receipts without invoices or invoices without receipts, which finance checks at period end.
Account determination is a lookup. The system takes attributes of the document, such as the material's valuation class, the movement type or the customer's account assignment group, and finds the general ledger account to post to. A good FICO consultant understands the lookup keys, not just the account numbers.
Post a complete cycle on a training system: create a purchase order, receive goods, post the invoice, run the payment, and then check the accounting document at each step. Do the same for a sales order through delivery, billing and payment. Seeing the entries appear is the fastest way to remember them.
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Goods receipts and invoice receipts in MM create accounting documents automatically. The accounts are found through automatic account determination in transaction OBYC, using valuation class, movement type and transaction keys.
Billing documents in SD post the customer receivable and revenue to FI, and goods issue posts the cost of goods sold. Revenue accounts are found through account determination, configured in transaction VKOA.
GR/IR is a clearing account between goods receipt and invoice receipt. The goods receipt credits it and the invoice receipt debits it, so unmatched items show receipts and invoices that have not been paired.
OBYC is the transaction used to configure automatic account determination for inventory-related postings in MM, such as stock, GR/IR, consumption and price differences.
You need to understand how they connect to finance, though not their full configuration. Knowing the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash flows and their accounting entries is expected in interviews.
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