Start where you are. Each level assumes the one before it, so your skills compound instead of repeat.
Level 1 · Foundations
Foundations
For finance and accounts staff new to SAP, or moving from ECC screens to S/4HANA. You learn the enterprise structure, the Universal Journal, master data for GL, customers and vendors, and how a document actually posts, and finish able to navigate Fiori and post routine entries.
Level 2 · Practitioner
Practitioner
For accountants, AP and AR leads, and controllers who own a process end to end. You configure and run Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, GST with CIN and TDS withholding, and drive the month end close without external help for standard scenarios.
Level 3 · Consultant
Advanced and Consultant
For aspiring SAP FICO consultants and senior finance staff on transformation projects. You cover Product Costing, Margin Analysis, Cost and Profit Center Accounting, Central Finance, integration with MM and SD, and the full ECC to S/4HANA conversion with clean core discipline.
Module 1: General Ledger and the Universal Journal (ACDOCA)
Configure the enterprise structure, ledgers and financial statement version, and understand how ACDOCA merges FI, CO, asset and material ledger data into one line item table. The common gap is teams still thinking in old totals tables and reconciliation logic that no longer exists, which leads to reports that do not tie out and hours hunting differences S/4HANA already eliminated.
Module 2: New Asset Accounting
Set up depreciation areas, the chart of depreciation and the accounting principle assignment, and run acquisitions, retirements and depreciation that post straight to the ledger in real time. The expensive mistake is carrying old FI to Asset Accounting differences and postings that bypassed the subledger into conversion, because S/4HANA blocks the migration until every asset value can be traced to its source.
Module 3: Accounts Payable, GST Input Credit and E-Invoicing
Configure vendor master with GSTIN and PAN, payment terms, tolerances, the automatic payment program and TDS at invoice or payment. Money leaks where the AP register does not reconcile to GSTR-2B, invoices without a valid IRN and QR code are booked and input tax credit is later denied, and cancelled IRNs still in GSTR-2B are never cleaned up before the claim deadline.
Module 4: Accounts Receivable and Bank Accounting
Set up customer master, credit control, dunning, incoming payments and the electronic and manual bank statement with auto clearing rules. Teams lose days at close because bank reconciliation rules are half configured, so statements clear line by line, and unapplied receipts pile up in the interim GL account with no owner.
Module 5: Tax on Sales and Purchases, GST (CIN) and TDS Withholding
Configure CIN, the tax procedure, condition records, business place, GST registration numbers, and withholding tax types and codes with the correct accumulation and threshold logic for the current TDS limits. The recurring failure is stale condition records posting GST or TDS at the wrong rate, and thresholds set per invoice instead of per year, which under deducts and creates a compliance exposure.
Module 6: Cost Center, Profit Center and Internal Orders
Configure the controlling area, cost center and profit center hierarchies, assessment and distribution cycles, and statistical versus real postings. Poorly maintained master data and broken allocation cycles mean overhead lands in the wrong center, so management reporting and profitability by segment are quietly wrong all year.
Module 7: Product Costing and Margin Analysis (COPA)
Set up the cost component structure, costing variant, standard cost estimate, Material Ledger actual costing, variance calculation and Account-Based COPA with the COGS split. The classic error is choosing costing based COPA out of ECC habit when only account based is integrated into the Universal Journal, plus a Material Ledger switched on but never reconciled.
Module 8: Month End, Year End Close and S/4HANA Conversion
Run the closing cockpit and Advanced Financial Closing tasks, foreign currency valuation, GR/IR clearing, recurring entries and carry forward, then walk the ECC to S/4HANA conversion including COPA and asset migration and clean core rules. The costly gaps are an unstructured close that depends on one person's checklist, and Z-code that breaks upgrade safety.
