Financial accountant with DATEV and SAP

Free of cost

by funding

The course offers a systematic introduction to bookkeeping and accounting processes. You will also expand your accounting knowledge with the applications in DATEV and Financial Accounting in SAP®. You will also learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the profession.
  • Certificates: Certificate "Financial accountant with DATEV and SAP"
  • Additional Certificates: Certificate "Fundamentals of Accounting"
    DATEV certificate "DATEV financial accounting user"
    DATEV training partner certificate of attendance
    Original SAP user certificate
  • Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
    DATEV user financial accounting
    SAP user certification UC_FI_S42023
  • Teaching Times: Part-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.).
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 24 Weeks

Accounting basics

Accounting basics (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)

Legal basics

Inventory, stocktaking, balance sheet

Determination of profit through equity comparison


Posting to balance sheet and profit and loss accounts (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)

Value changes in the balance sheet

Dissolution of the balance sheet in inventory costs

Posting business transactions and closing balance sheet accounts

Simple and compound posting records

Opening and closing balance sheet account

Expenses and income

Profit and loss account as closing account of the profit and loss accounts


Introduction to depreciation of property, plant and equipment (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)

Causes, posting and effect of depreciation

Calculation of depreciation

Profit and loss account


Change in inventories of finished goods and work in progress (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)

Inventory increase, inventory decrease

Effect on the profit and loss account


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Value added tax on purchases and sales (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)

The nature of sales tax (value added tax)

Value added tax - a transitory item for companies

Accounting for sales tax


Private withdrawals and deposits (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)

Private account

Free withdrawal of goods and other services


Organization of bookkeeping (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Chart of accounts

Tasks and structure of the chart of accounts

Chart of accounts and chart of accounts

Document organization

Meaning and types of documents

The books of financial accounting

Basic ledger, general ledger

Overview of the subledgers

Overview of common accounting programs

Master data maintenance

Open item accounting

Commercial arithmetic: Rule of three, calculating percentages, calculating interest


Bookings in the personnel area (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)

Wages, salaries

Advances, benefits in kind

Special allowances


Procurement and sales bookings (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Merchandise

Procurement costs, returns

Immediate discounts, price reductions

Delivery accounts, customer accounts

Posting of material purchases to expense accounts


Bookings in the fixed assets area (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)

Asset accounting

Acquisition of fixed assets

Retirement, sale, withdrawal of fixed assets


Taxation of companies and entrepreneurs (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)


Annual financial statements (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)

Inventory differences

Other receivables/other liabilities

Prepaid expenses and deferred income

Provisions/valuation of receivables

Closing in the main financial statement overview


Cost and activity accounting (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)

Tasks of cost and performance accounting

Basic concepts of KLR

Expenses - Income

Expenses - costs

Income - services

Imputed costs, tasks and types


Project work (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Financial accounting with DATEV

Client master data (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)

Creation of a new client

Importing and saving client data


Account master data (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

From chart of accounts to chart of accounts

Account functions

Creating individual accounts

Creating and managing current accounts

Account assignment of sample documents according to the SKR03 or SKR04 chart of accounts


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Posting (full-time approx. 6 days/part-time approx. 12 days)

According to the DATEV posting logic

Posting with automatic accounts and tax keys

Posting with "posting batches"

Defining "posting batches"

Dialog postings and batch postings

Allocation and split postings

Reversal postings - general reversal (DATEV)

Posting intra-Community deliveries and intra-Community acquisitions

Posting for third country transactions

Posting by company code (incoming and outgoing invoices, bank, cash register)

Posting lists


Financial accounting evaluations (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Primanota and journal

Totals and balances list

Open item management (posting invoices, posting payments)

Advance sales tax returns

Summary reports (ZM)

Business analyses (BWA)

Controlling report


Year-end closing (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Closing entries

Balance sheet and profit and loss account

Statement of fixed assets

Annual financial statement evaluations

Printing evaluations


Special features (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)

Integration with the wage and salary program

Integration with asset accounting (ANLAG)


Project work, certification preparation (via the DATEV Students online platform) and certification exam "DATEV-Anwender Finanzbuchführung" (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

SAP User Financial Accounting (FI)

S4H00 SAP S/4HANA Overview (approx. 6 days)

Overview of SAP S/4HANA

Navigation, SAP Fiori, SAP Business Client, SAP Logon

System-wide concepts with organizational units, master data and transactions

Overview of financial accounting and logistics modules, mapping of the respective processes in SAP

Reporting, system structure and migration

SAP service offerings


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


S4F10 Business processes in financial accounting (approx. 14 days)

Overview of financial accounting

General ledger accounting, accounts payable accounting, accounts receivable accounting, asset accounting and bank accounting

Closing operations in general ledger accounting


S4F17 Introduction to asset accounting (approx. 10 days)

Organizational structures, master data, asset transactions, periodic work, information system and legacy data transfer


S4F12 Introduction to the basics of customizing in financial accounting: General ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable (approx. 2 days)

Basic settings, master data, document control, posting control and clearing


S4F15 Entry to graduation (approx. 1 day)

Individual selected topics for the final theses


S4F13 Introduction to financial accounting - extended configuration (approx. 1 day)

Special G/L transactions


Project work/case study, certification preparation and SAP user certification in financial accounting (approx. 6 days)



Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.

The course offers a systematic introduction to bookkeeping, basic data processing in accounting with the DATEV program and the methods and applications of financial accounting with SAP. You will then master the competent handling of accounting processes and round off your professional profile with SAP user certification.

The course is aimed at anyone who would like to acquire accounting knowledge or refresh their knowledge in order to subsequently work as a user or administrator in financial accounting.

Employees with a sound basic knowledge of accounting are indispensable in today's working world and are in demand across all sectors at companies of all sizes. Knowledge of the common financial programs DATEV and SAP will further improve your career opportunities.

Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

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We will gladly advise you free of charge. 0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm free of charge from all German networks.