SAP COPA

Course details

• Introduction to Controlling and Management Reporting
• Introduction to COPA
• Gross Profit and Net Profit Margin Analysis
• Cost Components and Analysis
• Multi-Dimentional Analysis
• Assessment of the topic

• COPA Table Structures
• OLTP – Link to Transactional Data
• OLAP – Link to Data-warehousing
• Working with SAP Operating Concern Templates

• Types of COPA Modules
• Costing-based CO-PA versus Account-based CO-PA
• Creating Characteristics and Value Fields
• Maintaining an Operating Concern
• Accessing and Creating Operating Concerns
• Creating User-defined Value Fields and Characteristics
• Defining Profitability Segments and CO-PA Exceptions
• Operating Concern Attributes
• Org structure -Controlling Area and Operating Concern
• Assigning a Company Code to a Controlling Area
• Checking the Current Profitability Analysis Activation
• Import Operating Concern
• Performing CO-PA Transports
• Automatic Transport or Manual Transport
• Client-specific and Cross-client Settings

• Components of Master Data Menus in CO-PA
• Maintaining Characteristic Values
• Define Characteristics Hierarchy
• Creating Characteristic Derivations and Derivation Rules
• Customer Master Values
• Product Master Values

• Pricing Procedure and Conditions
• Condition Mapping to Value Fields
• Handling of sign / –
• Prevention of Values

• Concept of Valuation
• Configure Cost Components
• Cost Estimation for COPA Access
• Configure Standard Cost Access

• Overview of values from all other modules
• Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders – Record – A
• Transfer of Billing Documents – Record – F
• Order and Project Settlement – Record – C
• Define PA Transfer Structure for Settlement
• Direct Posting from FI/ MM – Record – B
• Maintain PA Transfer Structure for Direct Postings
• Automatic Account Assignment
• Settlement of Production Variances
• Transfer of Overhead
• Assessment of Topic

• CO-PA Reporting Scenarios
• Working with Reports in CO-PA
• Report Types – Basic and Line Items
• Working with Forms
• Assessment of Topic
• Predefining Headers and Footers
• Other Elements
• Defining Variables in Reports
• Creating Frozen Reports
• Key Figure Schemes
• Assessment of Topic

• Need for Account Based COPA
• Defining Cost Elements for CO-PA
• Set the type of COPA
• Controlling Areas and Account-Based CO-PA
• Currencies and Account-Based CO-PA
• Actual Data Flow and Data Transfer
• Profitability Analysis Reports
• Assessment of Cost Center Costs
• Order and Project Settlement
• Reconcile between Costing Based and Account Based

• Introduction – Costing Based CO-PA Planning
• The Framework of Corporate Planning
• A First Look at the CO-PA Planning Framework
• Number Ranges for Planning Data
• Maintaining Versions
• Planning with the CO-PA Planning Framework
• Planning Levels
• Planning Package
• Working with Planning Methods
• The Report Painter and CO-PA Planning Layouts
• Planning Profiles
• Basic Planning Methods CO-PA Planning Framework
• Enter Planning Data
• Display Planning Data
• Copy
• Forecast
• Valuation
• Revaluation
• Ratios
• Delete
• Planning Sequences

• Introduction – Account Based CO-PA Planning
• The Framework of Corporate Planning
• A First Look at the CO-PA Planning Framework
• Number Ranges for Planning Data
• Maintaining Versions
• Planning with the CO-PA Planning Framework
• Integration with other modules
• User Exits and Special fucntions 1 Parnter Function
• Inter-Company Profit elimination
• MM Integration
• Material Ledger Integration with COPA
• User Exits used in COPA