SAP FICO Interview questions and Answers

1. Does any one know what is Software life cycle, it was a question asked in an interview.

Ans: it is nothing but Road Map - five phases  like, Project Preparation, Blue print, Realisation, Final preparation and Go-live support.


1.Whether any FI document will be created during PO(Purchase order)?If pl mention the entry also?

Ans: There is no document that is created in FI side during PO. But in controlling there can  be a commitment posting to a Cost Center. The offsetting entry is posted at the time of GR.

2.What factors differentiates from one dunning level and other dunning level

Ans: The most important thing that differentiates the dunning levels are the dunning texts. The dunning text defines the urgency of the dunning notice. The other things can be the dunning charges, minimum & maximum amounts etc.

3.APP There will be many banks in a house bank. If the payment should be maid from particular bank GL account. Where it is configured.

Ans: There can be several accounts in the same house bank. We should assign the GL accounts exclusively at the time of creating the Bank master data and the bank accounts. Accordingly we can do the bank determination in FBZP for the individual banks and the corresponding sub accounts.
Tr code for Defining bank : FI12.

4.What are various types of servers in SAP R/3?
Ans: The Typical SAP landscape looks something like figure 1.4 below:

5. Can anybody explain me FI-MM integartion.pl explain in detail 
i.   movement types
ii.  account class
iii. material types

i. Movement types:
Classification key indicating the type of material movement (for example, goods receipt, goods issue, physical stock transfer).
The movement type enables the system to find predefined posting rules determining how the accounts of the financial accounting system (stock and consumption accounts) are to be posted and how the stock fields in the material master record are to be updated.

ii. Valuation class
Assignment of a material to a group of G/L accounts
Along with other factors, the valuation class determines the G/L accounts that are updated as a result of a valuation-relevant transaction or event, such as a goods movement.
The valuation class makes it possible to:
- Post the stock values of materials of the same material type to different G/L accounts
- Post the stock values of materials of different material types to the same G/L account

iii. Transaction/Event Key
Key allowing the user to differentiate between the various transactions and events (such as physical inventory transactions and goods movements) that occur within the field of inventory management.
The transaction/event type controls the filing/storage of documents and the assignment of document numbers.

iv.  Material Type
Groups together materials with the same basic attributes, for example, raw materials, semifinished products, or finished products.
When creating a material master record, you must assign the material to a material type. The material type you choose determines:
- Whether the material is intended for a specific purpose, for example, as a configurable
  material or process material
- Whether the material number can be assigned internally or externally
- The number range from which the material number is drawn
- Which screens appear and in what sequence
- Which user department data you may enter
- What procurement type the material has; that is, whether it is manufactured in-house or
  procured externally, or both
Together with the plant, the material type determines the material's inventory management requirement, that is:
- Whether changes in quantity are updated in the material master record
- Whether changes in value are also updated in the stock accounts in financial accounting

6.Maximum no. of dunning levels are created?

Ans: 9 levels maximum.

7.In how many ways APP  is configured?
Tr Code: FBZP

8.What is diff between AAM,Recurring entries,Sample doccument?

Account Assignment Model:
A reference for document entry that provides default values for posting business transactions. An account assignment model can contain any number of G/L account items and can be changed or supplemented at any time. In contrast to sample documents, the G/L account items for account assignment models may be incomplete.

Recurring Entries:
A periodically recurring posting made by the recurring entry program on the basis of recurring entry original documents.
The procedure is comparable with a standing order by which banks are authorized to debit rent payments, payment contributions or loan repayments.

Sample Documents:
Special type of reference document. Data from this document is used to create default entries on the accounting document entry screen.
Unlike an accounting document, a sample document does not update transaction figures but merely serves as a data source for an accounting document.


9. Where to assign activity type in cost centers?  OR how to link cost centers & activity types?There is no direct assignment.  You plan the output for a cost center first in kp26.   Then you've to plan the value of that cost center which you budget for a period in kp06.   Planned Activity expenditure / Planned Actvty qty gives you planned act rate which you can use to valuate your activity confirmations in mfg ordrs.   You can also define your own prices,but you have to run the price revaluation if you want to revaluate your actual activity prices.


10. For stat. key figure what is the significance of sender & receiver cost elements & cost centers?
Stat key fig are not real account assignments.  In simple traditionl terms it is the base to allocate or define praportions with which the cost is allocated.  SKFs are used to calculate the debit on a receiver object.  These values can be used for assessing common costs which are used by all the other cost centers


11.  How SKF works .. Kindly give me T Codes Also.
You create & plan SKF.
Create using KK01 & PLAN the parameters of SKF in KP46


12.  In GL master we have a option "Balance in local currency" and "Account currency".What does it mean?

Ans: Account currency is that the GL account in which currency do you want to maintain. if you decided that you want maintain in company code currency, you can post any currency in that account.
If not, you want to maintain separate currency for that GL then exchange rate difference will come because the conversion rate.

Balance in local currency - some GL account can't be maintain on open item basis and can't in foreign currency like clearing account and discount account etc., in such case you can assign this indicator to show the balance in local currency.


Q. In movement type(MM), what is value & quantity string I know it updates values and quantities in GL with mix of valuvation class, transaction key modifier and GL A/c. But how does it work when doing a mvt type?

Ans: Basically, the system does not know which GL has to be updated with what. here, we are giving a direction to the system to update the data.
What you said is correct, the system will update the value and qty in the material master.  You would have seen some more fields also, like Movement indicator, consumption, value string and transaction event key etc.,
While creating a PO, the system will take the Movement type as a base, with MT, it will identify the MI(movement indicator - used to define whether it is goods movement for production order, purchase order, delivery note etc), and it will identify the consumption,( like it is assets, or consumption or sales order) and it will identify the value string ( it is must to assigned to movement type, through allocation of value string to movement type, system will automatically identify the GL ) and it will post the entry (dr/cr)in the GL based on the transaction and event key figure which is used to determine the debit and credit entry of a GL