Introduction
The purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to configuring (a form of customizing functionality) the Financials and Controlling modules within SAP. The FI (Financials) and CO (Controlling) modules are the backbone of most, if not all, SAP implementations. The reason is that most business events culminate in a financial impact. One of SAP’s biggest selling points is its integration capabilities. Integration, in this context, means that for any business event SAP automatically updates the related metrics, be they financial or management accounting metrics. Not only will you learn the foundational configuration elements involved in implementing the core of FI/CO functionality, but you will also learn configuration principals ...
