Faculty: MUHAMMAD ASIF JAFFER

Institute of Business AdministrationCourse: Accounting Information System with SAP

Summer 2010

Course Description:

Having become a member of University Alliance Program of SAP worldwide, IBA offers its second ever SAP integrated course this summer. The course Accounting Information Systems with SAP is a fully SAP integrated course which covers fundamentals of SAP Financial Accounting FI, Managerial Accounting CO, Materials Management MM and Sales & Distribution SD.

The AIS course is different from other basic accounting courses in that it focuses on the processes and the working and interaction of various organization elements rather than the accounting information itself. As against the traditional AIS curriculum, this course is more focused on business processes in SAP with minimum discussion of the technical aspects of systems development. The course is delivered with hands on experience on SAP made available through IDES. More than 50% of the course is therefore given through interactive lab sessions.

The course starts through general review of accounting cycle and SAP navigation hands on, followed by practical know how of basic business processes in SAP Financial Accounting (FI), Managerial Accounting (CO), Materials Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD) coupled with the appreciation of the need and importance of internal control systems within the business processes.

Course Objectives:

Following are the broad course objectives of this course:

1- To instill an understanding of how accounting information system work at organizations with special reference to SAP ERP

2- To learn SAP architecture and Organizational structure in SAP FI, CO, MM and SD3- To appreciate the importance of various types of internal control measures within business

processes and in SAP sample processes4- To learn the basic business processes in SAP Financial Accounting (FI), Management Accounting

(CO), Materials Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD) and their interactivity with General Ledger

Who Should Attend

IBA students may take this course as a Finance or MIS elective. It is advisable that students take this course in their last semester as this will give then maximum edge in finding some suitable job.

Accounting cum Finance people form Industry where SAP has been implemented or is being implemented, or even where another ERP is in practice but who desire to get firsthand knowledge of SAP Financials concepts and hands on.

Faculty: MUHAMMAD ASIF JAFFER

All other students / professionals from academia / industry who want to have an appreciation and understanding of SAP Financials with hands on experience

Though this course will equip the candidates with conceptual understanding of SAP architecture and organizational structure, yet it is not targeted towards SAP academy and as such is from SAP users perspective

Prerequisites

Having taken course on Financial Accounting or have sound knowledge of steps in Accounting Cycle

Faculty

Faculty for this course is Muhammad Asif Jaffer. He is a fellow member of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan and Associate member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants UK. He has 9 years of industry experience in Accounting department. He has been trained by SAP certified consultant and is also shortly being certifying as SAP consultant in CO.

Course Outline:

Session 1Introduction to AIS Course, ERP and SAPAn Introduction and Overview

Session 2Fundamentals of AccountingA recap from preliminary accounting courses; accounting cycle, financial statements, their uses, accounting domains i.e. financial and managerial accounting etc.

Session * 3Introduction to SAP ERP (Hands On)*SAP Navigation Course

Session 4Overview of Business ProcessesBasic representative business processes in a typical manufacturing concern; Revenue Cycle, Expenditure Cycle, Production Cycle, Human Resource and Payroll Cycle, and General Ledger Cycle

Session 5Guest Speaker Session / Industry Tour

Sessions * 6 - 8Financial and Managerial Accounting Processes and Organizational Structure in SAP FI (Hands On)*GL Information System ConceptsFI organizational structure in SAPCO organizational structure in SAP

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FI and CO Master RecordsMaking journal entries in SAPGeneral Vendors’ and Customers’ Invoices ProcessingBank Accounting in SAP FICost Centre AccountingImportant reports in SAP FICO

Sessions 9 - 10Internal Controls and Information Systems SecurityInformation Security, Business Process & Application Controls

Sessions * 11 – 13 Material Management and Purchasing Cycle: SAP MM (Hands On)MM Information System ConceptsMM Organizational Structure in SAPInventory Master RecordsVendors’ Master RecordsPurchase Order to Vendor Payment in SAP Important reports in SAP MM

Session 14Guest Speaker Session / Industry Tour

Sessions * 15 - 17Sales and Distribution Cycle: SAP SD (Hands On)*SD Information System ConceptsSD Organizational Structure in SAPInventory Master RecordsCustomers’ Master RecordsSales Order to Customer Collection in SAP Important reports in SAP SD

Session* 18Bird Eye View of SAP Human Resources and Production PlanningDiscussion of general organizational structures in SAP HR and SAP PP and basic business processes there under

Room NumberIBA Laboratory # 16 at City Campus

Course ScheduleTuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays6:00 pm to 8:15 pm