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SAP(R) R/3(R) Financial Accounting: Making It Work For Your Business
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Author: Sandra Brinkmann, Axel Zeilinger
List Price: $41.99
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ISBN: 0201675307
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (11 April, 2001)
Edition: Hardcover
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
SAP Is A Life-Saver
A colleague directed me to this book after our company had to convert to SAP following a merger. The SAP system is a life-saver -- or, at any rate, a job-saver. Certain system-update tasks that formerly required about 10 minutes of work by two people (primarily due to separation-of-duties parameters) now require coordination actions by four people over the course of three days. The conversion to SAP has saved our careers, because it is extremely difficult to comprehend and takes many extra hands to run (and then follow up, with all of the end-of-period clarification requests that arise as a result of SAP's reporting weaknesses). I thank SAP every day. It is keeping me, and thousands like me, employed.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Navigating SAP FI Module
I must agree with the review "Rubik's Accounting System", there is very little that is intuitive about navigating your way thru the SAP FI module. Within the same business process different buttons/commands are required on subsequent screens to do the same thing. The user is also required to enter data for the same process different ways on subsequent screens. The FI module is not easy and there have been many changes to the menu paths and the screen layouts from version 3.11 to 4.6c. In my experience with SAP writers/publishers they tend to underestimate the design changes from one version to another. Although a configuration process may be very well explained, the instructions are very often obsolete for your version of SAP. Writers and publishers often claim that the book is valid for a SAP releases long subsequent to the publishing of the book. How do they know? The best way to insure that the instructions will be valid for your version of SAP is by noting the copyright date and comparing that against the release date of your software. If the copyright date is earlier than your software, the book is obsolete for your needs. We did not come to Amazon.com to scold SAP and their architects and designers. Clearly SAP was not designed from an accountant prospective. We are here to evaluate the usefulness of a technical book. Like it or not, that is the nature of the beast. It is our job to use and implement the system. Finding a good technical reference that is concurrent with your system is a gold mine.
Rating: 1 out of 5
A Waste of Company Money!
If my boss reads this review and finds out I'm wasting company money buying useless books like this I've got trouble.
This book isn't a manual. This is a nice review of accounting in general and describes a few accounting functions. For example, it devotes six pages to a description of Bills of Exchange processing - good reading for anyone but not much about how to mechanically process them in SAP.
It mentions SAP, but if you think you'll learn how to use the FI module by reading this book, forget it.
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