SAP FICO Interview Questions
1) Differences between company code and company
2) business area and PCA
3) Retained earnings Account
4) Account group functionality
5) field status variant
6) fiscal year variant Vs posting period variant
7) withholding taxes
8) tax on sales and purchases
9) use tax
10) Vat
11) jurisdiction code
12) external number range and internal number range
13) FI organizational structure
14) CO organizational structure
15) FI tables
16) CO tables
17) CO-PA tables
18) APP configuration steps
19) APP run steps
20) Importance of base line date
21) importance of next posting date in APP run
22) Dunning configuration
23) Dunning run steps
SAP FICO Interview Questions
24) check printing program
25) Void and reprint checks
26) pre numbered checks
27) House banks
28) if vendor is a customer
29) dunning area
30) dunning key
31) dunning block
32) payment block
33) Journal entries in SD integrations
34) Journal entries Billing and PGI
35) Journal entries in FI-MM integrations
36) Journal entries for goods issue, scraping and goods
issued to production
37) valuation class
38) validations and substitutions
39) valuation area
40) valuation modification
41) general modification
42) Material master views
43) FS00 all tabs
44) Vendor and customer master creation( all tabs)
45) ASAP methodology
SAP FICO Interview Questions
46) All five phases in ASAP methodology
47) testing process
48) documentation
49) functional specs
50) user exits
51) customer exits
52) enhancements
53) tables view
54) work bench request and customizing requests
55) SM35 and SE38 screens
56) DEV, testing and PRD clients
57) Tickets / messages
58) problems faced in implementation and support
59) client, cross client, transport of configuration
60)LSMW
61)BDC
62) Debugging a program
63) Special GL accounts, Special GL Transactions,
Alternative GL accounts
64) Down payment Request, Down payments,
65) Noted items
66) Parking a document and holding a document
67) sample document and recurring document
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68)BRS
69) Clearing accounts
70)Open item management
71) line item display
72) bank sub accounts
73) payment terms
74) controlling area
75) versions
76) link between FI and CO
77) assessment and distributions
78) allocation structure
79) what is cost center
80) what is a profit center
81) Profit center configuration steps
82) Report painter
83) Report
84) Report groups
85) Report library
86) Statistical and Real postings
87) Standard hierarchy and alternative hierarchy
88) Transferring data to SD to COPA configurations
89) CO-PA configuration all steps
90) Month end closing
SAP FICO Interview Questions
91) year end closing
92) Go-Live activities
93) Lock Box concept
94) cross company code transactions
95) settlements in co
96) difference between cost centers and internal orders
97) Reconciliation Accounts
98) Extended With Holding Taxes configuration steps – right
from creation of WH Tax Types, Codes to Annual Return
99) What is chart of account and how many charts of
accounts can be assigned to a company
100) What is residual payment and part payment
101) procurement cycle in MM
102) goods movement
103) What is GR/IR? What journal entries
104) Primary cost elements and secondary cost elements
105) How to configure FI and CO reconciliation account
106) Steps for electronic bank reconciliation statement
107) CO-PA Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders
108) Report Painter, How to reverse +/- signs
109) What is the relationship between Report Groups and the
report groups

Answer Posted / chakri

1.company VS company code.
a.company consist group of company codes where company code is a single unit.b.company is used for consolidation of all financial reports where as company code is used to prepare financial statements.

2.business area vs pca

both are used for internal reporting but now a days all companies is preferred to use PCA.business area may not supported by SAP in future.business area tax item spilliting it created problem.

3. retained earnings account
retained earnings account means the balances of p&l account are transferred tear end clohis account at the time year end closings.

4.Account group functionality
Account groups controls the master records,data screen layouts and number range intervals.without this it's not possible to create master records.

5.field status variant.
field status variant detemines which field is ready for input,we make some fields as optional,mandatory and suppress.

6.FSV vs PPV
FSV is nothing but financial year (or) academic year it contains 12 periods and 4 special periods.
where as PPV controls the open and closing posting periods.

13.FI org structure
client-->credit control area-->company-->company code-->business area.
14.CO org structure
client-->operating concern-->controlling area-->company code-->cost center-->business area.

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