Configured company code
Deliverable: A working company code you configured from scratch — chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, document types and tolerance groups — documented so another consultant could follow the settings.
Course
SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling)
The finance module of SAP, taught by configuring an org structure and closing a real period in it, so you can answer how the system works rather than only where the buttons are.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Configure a company code, chart of accounts and fiscal year variant
- Post and clear the everyday general ledger, payables and receivables transactions
- Run the asset lifecycle from acquisition through depreciation to retirement
- Set up cost centres and internal orders and report actual against plan
- Complete a month-end and year-end close in a system you configured
- Explain the FI and CO integration points to an interviewer
Who this course is for
- Commerce graduates, or graduates in any stream with accounting knowledge
- Working accountants and audit staff moving into ERP roles
- CA, CMA and MBA finance students and dropouts
- You must already understand debit, credit and a balance sheet
Syllabus
6 modules · 4 months
Module 1. Enterprise structure and configuration
- Client, company code, business area and plant
- Chart of accounts and account groups
- Fiscal year variant, posting periods and document types
- Field status groups and tolerance limits
Module 2. General ledger accounting
- Master data and creating GL accounts
- Document posting, parking and holding
- Reversals, recurring entries and accrual documents
- Reconciliation accounts and the GL view
Module 3. Accounts payable and receivable
- Vendor and customer master data
- Invoice, credit memo and payment posting
- Automatic payment programme configuration
- Dunning, clearing and open item management
Module 4. Asset accounting
- Chart of depreciation and asset classes
- Acquisition, capitalisation and asset explorer
- Depreciation methods and the depreciation run
- Transfer, scrapping and sale of an asset
Module 5. Controlling
- Cost element and cost centre accounting
- Internal orders and settlement
- Profit centre accounting
- Planning and actual-versus-plan reporting
Module 6. Period close and integration
- Month-end close checklist and execution
- Year-end close, balance carry forward and GL closing
- FI integration with MM and SD, and the accounting entries each generates
- Standard financial reports and drill-down
Tools and technologies you will use
- SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC
- SAP GUI
- Microsoft Excel
Projects you will build
Full transaction cycle
Deliverable: Vendor and customer masters created, invoices posted, payments run through the automatic payment programme and cleared, with the resulting GL entries traced end to end.
Month-end close
Deliverable: A complete month-end close executed in your own configuration, producing a trial balance and financial statements you can explain line by line.
Where this course can take you
- SAP FICO Consultant
- SAP End User
- ERP Accountant
- Finance Executive
- Business Analyst
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode and include practice server access. Official SAP certification, if you choose to take it, is booked and paid through SAP separately.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
You configure it, you do not watch it
There are two ways to teach SAP. One is a tour of transaction codes, which produces someone who can follow a process and stops dead when it differs. The other is configuration, which produces someone who knows why the system behaved that way.
This course is the second one. You build a company code, define the chart of accounts, set the fiscal year variant and post into your own configuration. When a month-end close goes wrong in your client, you fix it, and that hour is worth more than a fortnight of demonstrations.
Accounting first, always
FICO is not accounting software you can learn without accounting.
If debit and credit are not already instinctive, and a trial balance is not something you can read, the configuration becomes a sequence to memorise. It works right up until an interviewer asks why a particular posting hits a reconciliation account, and then it does not.
This is the one prerequisite we hold to. If you need the ground first, our Tally and GST courses build it properly and are a common route in.
About the certification claim
We train. SAP certifies.
The certificate from this course is a Samyak certificate. Official SAP certification is booked and paid for through SAP directly, and no private institute can award it — anyone implying otherwise is hoping you do not check. We will tell you what the official exam involves and what it costs if you want to go that route.
Where the jobs actually are
Being straight about this matters more than the enrolment.
Most SAP FICO hiring wants finance domain experience alongside the module. A fresher with this training and no accounting background is a difficult sell; an accounts executive with three years and this training is a strong one. Freshers do get in — usually through support and end-user roles, then across to consulting — but it is a route rather than a leap, and anyone promising otherwise is selling.
Questions
SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling) — frequently asked questions
Do I need an accounting background for SAP FICO?
Yes, and this is the one prerequisite we will not waive. FICO is accounting expressed as a system — if you cannot already read a trial balance or explain why an entry is a debit, the configuration will be memorisation rather than understanding, and an interviewer will find that out in about four minutes.
Which is better to learn, FICO, MM or SD?
They are different careers, not difficulty levels. FICO suits accountants, MM suits people from procurement, stores or supply chain, and SD suits sales and order management backgrounds. Take the one that matches your existing experience — that experience is what makes you employable in the module, not the certificate.
Is this an official SAP certification?
No. This is training, and the certificate is issued by Samyak. Official SAP certification is booked and paid for through SAP directly and is a separate exercise. Anybody suggesting a private institute can award SAP's own credential is misleading you, and we would rather say so plainly.
Will I get server access to practise on?
Yes — practice access is part of the course, because SAP cannot be learned from slides. The configuration projects specifically require you to build in your own client rather than watch a demonstration, which is also what makes them worth talking about in an interview.
Can a fresher get an SAP FICO job?
It is harder than the marketing suggests and you deserve a straight answer. Most FICO hiring wants domain experience alongside the module knowledge. Freshers do get in, usually through support or end-user roles first, then move to consulting. Treat this as a strong addition to an accounting career rather than a shortcut past one.
Enquire about SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling)
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- SAP MM (Materials Management)
The procurement and inventory module, taught by running the procure-to-pay cycle end to end so you can trace what every document did to stock and to the ledger.
- SAP SD (Sales and Distribution)
The sales module, taught by configuring pricing and running order-to-cash end to end, so you understand why an order priced the way it did rather than only where to click.
- Tally Prime with GST
Tally Prime taught through a full simulated financial year — vouchers, inventory, GST, TDS and payroll — so you finish having actually kept a set of books, not just clicked through menus.
- GST Practitioner
GST taught as reconciliation work rather than as rules to memorise, because the job is finding why your books and the portal disagree — and that is where mistakes cost money.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
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