In this reprint (2010) aimed at SAP users and consultants, Narayanan, a financial analyst, SAP financial accounting/controlling (FI/CO) consultant, and project manager for a multinational consulting company, outlines key terms and concepts in SAP controlling (CO) through a question and answer format that incorporates illustrations, screenshots, diagrams, tables, and examples. Chapters progress from basic to advanced topics: general controlling, including the organizational structure, account assignment, business transactions, currency, number ranges, settlement, and distribution; cost element accounting topics like categories, groups, accruals, and overhead structure; cost center accounting, groups, categories, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, resources, planning profiles, versions, distribution, assessment, allocation, budgeting, variances, summarization, and other topics; internal orders, including individual and standing orders, statistical and real order, order types and categories, the order manager and management, and archiving; activity based costing (ABC) and its definition, usage, benefits, approaches, and allocation, and parallel and integrated ABC, planning aids, and the ABC information system; product cost controlling, including planning, cost object controlling, actual costing/material ledger, and information systems; profitability analysis, its difference from profit center accounting, operating concerns, characteristics, values fields, segments, currency, structure, master data, conversion, realignment, valuation, and planning; and tables and transaction codes. The book draws on his earlier volume, SAP FI/CO Demystified. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)