Narayanan, a financial analyst, SAP financial accounting/controlling (FI/CO) consultant, and project manager for a multinational consulting company, uses a question and answer format, illustrations, and screenshots, diagrams, and examples to explain concepts and terms used in SAP financial accounting (FI) to consultants using the SAP system. Chapters address organization units and basic settings like fiscal year, posting periods, currencies, document types and number ranges, taxes, and the schedule manager; general ledger accounting, including document splitting, segment accounting, parallel valuation, and closing cockpit; accounts payable and receivable, with discussion of customer/vendor masters, purchase cycles, terms of payment, payment programs, tolerances, sales cycles, credit management, and dunning; bank, asset, and lease accounting, including bank directories, house banks, bank chains, lockbox processing, statements, checks, assets under construction, low value assets, asset numbering and class, asset masters, acquisition, transfers, retirements, scrapping, depreciation, asset history sheets, explorers, leasing types, classifications, value IDS, and lease accounting engines; travel management, including requests, planning, expenses, the process flow, trips, the planning and travel managers, and setup; and tables and transaction codes. The volume is an expanded and revised edition of his earlier book, SAP FI/CO Demystified. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)