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TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has a comprehensive, integrated full services portfolio around the SAP technology stack. They provide services like consulting, advisory, implementation, rollouts, upgrade, shared services, and hosting services. TCS provides great opportunities for SAP FICO consultants. This article gives an insight to some of the important TCS SAP FICO Consultant interview questions and answers.
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TCS SAP FICO Consultant Interview Questions and Answers
What is the posting key and why is it used?
A posting key is a two-digit alphanumeric code used to control and determine the type of accounting transaction being posted. It determines the accounts that will be affected by the transaction. It specifies the account type and the screen layout of line items and whether the line item is debit or credit entry.
What is financial statement version ?
Financial statement versions helps to group all the related accounts to get the balance sheet and income statement for the purpose of reporting. SAP systems uses them when creating the balance sheet and P&L reports.
How are input and output taxes handled in SAP FICO?
Input tax is related to vendor transactions and output tax is related to customer transactions. These taxes are configured in SAP using T code FTXP.
What do you mean by year-dependent fiscal year variant?
A year-dependent fiscal year variant is a variant that only applies to a specific calendar year. To do this, you should select the field Year-dependent when you define your fiscal year variants.
How many fiscal year variants can be used at a time?
SAP allows to define a maximum of 16 posting periods in a fiscal year in the controlling component CO. It consists of 12 regular posting periods and 4 special periods which can be used for audit or tax adjustments to already closed periods.
What is the difference between FI and CO in SAP?
SAP FICO comprises of two core modules FI and CO. FI (Financial Accounting) deals with overall financial reporting and accounting whereas CO (Controlling) is focused on monitoring costs.
What is the main use of SAP FICO?
SAP FICO is used by organizations to store a complete version of their financial transaction data. It helps companies to generate and manage financial statements for analysis and reporting, as well as in business planning and decision-making.
What are the other modules to which ‘Financial Accounting’ of SAP FICO is integrated?
Financial Accounting of SAP FICO is integrated to sales and distribution, human resource, material management, product planning and controlling of financial transaction. It includes a number of sub-modules like General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and Taxation.
How many chart of accounts can a company code have?
A company code can be assigned only one chart of accounts.
How many currencies can be configured for a company code?
We can configure three currencies for a Company Code – one local currency and two parallel currencies.
How can you make vendor payments?
Vendor payments can be done in two ways: Manual payment and automatic payment. Manual payment is done without the use of a medium such as cheques whereas automatic payment is done through DME (Data Medium Exchange), such as wire transfer or cheque.
What are validations and substitutions in SAP FICO?
Validations are used in the FI and CO modules to help ensure data integrity when entering actual transactions online or in batch. It validates a transaction value based on certain conditions and issues a warning/ error message if not met.
Substitution is to substitute a transaction value based on certain prerequisites. It derives or correct values being passed via integration or entered into the FI / CO modules.
What are the application areas in SAP that use validation and substitutions?
- FI- Financial accounting
- CO- Cost accounting
- AM- Asset accounting
- PC- Profit centre accounting
- PS- Project system
- RE- Real estate
- GL- Special purpose ledger
- CS- Consolidation
What do you understand by a field status group?
The field status group controls the data entry filling at the line item level while posting the transactions to the GL Account. It controls which data entry fields are required, optional or not required while posting to the G/L Account.
What is the relationship between company code and controlling area in SAP FICO?
A controlling area may contain one or more company codes that must use the same operative chart of accounts as the controlling area. Company Codes within a controlling area must all use the same operational chart of accounts and fiscal year variant, but can operate in different currencies, if required.
Tips for Preparing for the Interview
- Prepare well in advance. Practice answers to a few questions like ‘How would you describe yourself?’, ‘What are your talents?’, ‘What are your strength and weaknesses?’, ‘What would be your priorities in your next role?’, etc.
- Research well about the company. It helps to know about the company’s culture and the role and responsibilities of a SAP FICO consultant in the organization. All these will help you in your preparation.
- You may be asked about times in the past when you used a specific skill to solve any issue. Be ready to answer with a story by mentioning the situation, task, action and result.
- Practice your answers aloud. You could also ask your friend to conduct a mock interview. Practicing by standing in front of a mirror is also useful as it helps you observe your expressions and body language and work on it.
- Answer the questions and present your skills confidently.
The TCS SAP FICO interview questions will help you in your interview preparation. A career in SAP FICO is in demand with an exponential rise in the market. Entri App’s SAP FICO course is a well-featured updated course. This course provides students with specific information about financial accounting and controlling and helps them master the art of using SAP FICO software.
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