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I got this a forward by email, I thought, I should share it with you…..

We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously …

Visit to Google’s European Centre in Zurich

as shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light …

Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors … There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food: Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink.

Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are 4-6 ‘Zooglers’ per office.

INNOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because “ideas don’t always come when seated in the office” says one of Google’s managers.


LEISURE: Pool tables, video games etc. are available in many areas.

Communication… On each floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support: Problem with your computer ? No problem … Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST: This room provides massage chairs that you control … while you view relaxing aquariums … !!! Ambiance … There are many books in this library … even some about programming !!

I had been to SAP Office near Heathrow, UK and it is really fantastic. I believe that people who come to the building arrange their meetings around the lunch time …. food is excellent.

If you have a link your workplace, share it as a comment on the blog. Or share about the excellent workplaces in the world.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
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I got this a forward by email, I thought, I should share it with you…..

We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously …

Visit to Google’s European Centre in Zurich

as shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light …

Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors … There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food: Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink.

Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are 4-6 ‘Zooglers’ per office.

INNOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because “ideas don’t always come when seated in the office” says one of Google’s managers.


LEISURE: Pool tables, video games etc. are available in many areas.

Communication… On each floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support: Problem with your computer ? No problem … Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST: This room provides massage chairs that you control … while you view relaxing aquariums … !!! Ambiance … There are many books in this library … even some about programming !!

I had been to SAP Office near Heathrow, UK and it is really fantastic. I believe that people who come to the building arrange their meetings around the lunch time …. food is excellent.

If you have a link your workplace, share it as a comment on the blog. Or share about the excellent workplaces in the world.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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  1. Cultural Web – A big challenge 22-June-08
  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
  13. How to Share Blog posts with friends
  14. Management Accountant Blog Home

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I got this a forward by email, I thought, I should share it with you…..

We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously …

Visit to Google’s European Centre in Zurich

as shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light …

Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors … There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food: Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink.

Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are 4-6 ‘Zooglers’ per office.

INNOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because “ideas don’t always come when seated in the office” says one of Google’s managers.


LEISURE: Pool tables, video games etc. are available in many areas.

Communication… On each floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support: Problem with your computer ? No problem … Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST: This room provides massage chairs that you control … while you view relaxing aquariums … !!! Ambiance … There are many books in this library … even some about programming !!

I had been to SAP Office near Heathrow, UK and it is really fantastic. I believe that people who come to the building arrange their meetings around the lunch time …. food is excellent.

If you have a link your workplace, share it as a comment on the blog. Or share about the excellent workplaces in the world.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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  1. Cultural Web – A big challenge 22-June-08
  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
  13. How to Share Blog posts with friends
  14. Management Accountant Blog Home

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I got this a forward by email, I thought, I should share it with you…..

We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously …

Visit to Google’s European Centre in Zurich

as shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light …

Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors … There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food: Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink.

Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are 4-6 ‘Zooglers’ per office.

INNOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because “ideas don’t always come when seated in the office” says one of Google’s managers.


LEISURE: Pool tables, video games etc. are available in many areas.

Communication… On each floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support: Problem with your computer ? No problem … Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST: This room provides massage chairs that you control … while you view relaxing aquariums … !!! Ambiance … There are many books in this library … even some about programming !!

I had been to SAP Office near Heathrow, UK and it is really fantastic. I believe that people who come to the building arrange their meetings around the lunch time …. food is excellent.

If you have a link your workplace, share it as a comment on the blog. Or share about the excellent workplaces in the world.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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You may also like to read

  1. Cultural Web – A big challenge 22-June-08
  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
  13. How to Share Blog posts with friends
  14. Management Accountant Blog Home

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According to Wikipedia

Communication is the process of transferring information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood by both sender and receiver. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged.

I participate in virtual discussion forums and some of the members communicate using following sentences (they are grammatically correct).

  • I beg to differ …. or I beg to disagree
  • If you have queries, please contact the undersigned
  • I hereby give my consent
  • The undersigned does not carry any intentions to hurt you at all
  • I beg you will consider the business well tonight and let me…

Source: ExtremeInstability

William Wordsworth’s (1770 – 1850) poem “Daffodils” is a very popular poem and often taught in schools. Most of us must have studied during the school days. It has following paragraph

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed–and gazed–but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

The third line means happy. In today’s communication, you will be in trouble if you use it.

The point that I would like to make is one cannot use old English in today’s business communication as it may not be appropriate. The key is that your communication should be persuasive and should be to the point. (No ambiguity and without lawyer’s language).

The communication should be in active voice.

Eg.

  • I am enclosing instead of …….. Please find enclosed
  • Please contact me instead of …. If you have queries, please contact the undersigned ….
  • I accept instead of ….. I hereby give my consent
  • I am sorry instead of …. I beg your pardon
  • Please apply .. instead of ….The interested may thereafter apply in a prescribed format with stamp and seal from appropriate authority. ….. The application form should have instructions how to fill it.

I have found few tips that should of interest to you.

Your comments please… I would be happy to read it on my blog.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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  1. Cultural Web – A big challenge 22-June-08
  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
  13. How to Share Blog posts with friends
  14. Management Accountant Blog Home

Read Full Post »

According to Wikipedia

Communication is the process of transferring information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood by both sender and receiver. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged.

I participate in virtual discussion forums and some of the members communicate using following sentences (they are grammatically correct).

  • I beg to differ …. or I beg to disagree
  • If you have queries, please contact the undersigned
  • I hereby give my consent
  • The undersigned does not carry any intentions to hurt you at all
  • I beg you will consider the business well tonight and let me…

Source: ExtremeInstability

William Wordsworth’s (1770 – 1850) poem “Daffodils” is a very popular poem and often taught in schools. Most of us must have studied during the school days. It has following paragraph

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed–and gazed–but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

The third line means happy. In today’s communication, you will be in trouble if you use it.

The point that I would like to make is one cannot use old English in today’s business communication as it may not be appropriate. The key is that your communication should be persuasive and should be to the point. (No ambiguity and without lawyer’s language).

The communication should be in active voice.

Eg.

  • I am enclosing instead of …….. Please find enclosed
  • Please contact me instead of …. If you have queries, please contact the undersigned ….
  • I accept instead of ….. I hereby give my consent
  • I am sorry instead of …. I beg your pardon
  • Please apply .. instead of ….The interested may thereafter apply in a prescribed format with stamp and seal from appropriate authority. ….. The application form should have instructions how to fill it.

I have found few tips that should of interest to you.

Your comments please… I would be happy to read it on my blog.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

Do you like to be updated in Accountancy ?

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You may also like to read

  1. Cultural Web – A big challenge 22-June-08
  2. Emerging role of Management Accountants
  3. Porter’s Daimond
  4. Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  5. A lesson for every salaried employee
  6. A Leader should know how to manage failure
  7. Parables for our time
  8. What an Awesome Reply
  9. Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford Ceremony
  10. Illogical Thinking
  11. Goal Setting About Your Career
  12. Magic Mantra of Warren Buffet
  13. How to Share Blog posts with friends
  14. Management Accountant Blog Home

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This is a guest post by Mr. V R Kedia B.com FICWA. He is a practising Cost & Management Accountant from Mumbai

Shape of the things to come

  • Effect of LPG – Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation – Global competition, Fittest will survive, sub – optimal units have to die.

  • Size, strong balance sheets and a history of achievements are no longer guarantees of continued success.

  • Global competition – strategic alliance networks and massive engineering efforts place new demand on all professionals.

  • Many of old hierarchies will be replaced by flat structures.

  • Every organisation is undergoing a process of internal churning.

  • Employees will be judged by their delivery of agreed output and level of services, not on spending 8 hours a day attending their place of work.

  • Financial information will be considered as only one portion of the balanced scorecard of measures used in organisational decision making.

  • Knowledge will replace physical and financial capital as an organisations primary resource.

  • Knowledge and application of knowledge will create competitive advantage.

  • People will have to be accustomed to work in permanent stage of emergency.

  • More empowerment at the individual level.

  • Adoption of team based organisation.

  • Internet is rapidly transitioning businesses into real time.


Present role of Management Accountants – Conceptions & Misconceptions

  • Cost and Management accounting system had often become of little importance to managers. Many regarded them as minor routine belonging to the accountants, used to evaluate stocks and prepare monthly results speedily.

  • There are all the obvious things to do: Statutory and Financial accounting, Taxation compliance, Funding, Management reporting and so on. All of this tends to be in the background; it just has to happen in any event. Management Accountants have not yet progressed more towards bridging the gap between managers and accountants and they have yet to concern more with looking towards the future – at where business is going and what is going to happen.

  • Very few conceptual modifications have been brought in, in the cost and management accounting in the last 40 years.

  • Cost is too important to be left to the cost and management accountant.

Futuristic role of Management Accountants

  • Most of us will be doing the job, which we have never learnt and quite different from what we have been doing so far

  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

  • We have to undergo the process of “Learning, Un-learning and re-learning” more frequently.

  • Industry will be requiring “learning” professional rather than “learned” professional.

  • Future will be “knowledge era”. So obsolesce of knowledge will be very fast and more visible among accounting professionals.

  • Management Accountant must re-orient its capabilities, otherwise he will be overtaken by other professionals.

  • Management Accountant has to be futuristic instead of provider of historic or current information. He should ask “how better” and help management in decision-making level and for performance improvement.

  • ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge’. – Albert Einstein.

  • The responsibility of the management accountant is less on forecasting the future and more on contributing to its creation.

  • Management Accountant will more often play the role of a catalyst / changing agent rather than an accountant.

  • Management accountant will have to be more adaptable to be a versatile professional rather than an accounting specialist.

  • Quality of “leadership” will be more in demand than that of a “manager” or an accountant.

  • Out –cost ascertainment, product costing and cost control. In –cost management, activity-costing etc.

  • Re-positioning of the management accountant – make it more relevant and useful to the organisation.

  • Management accountant to change the “Accountant” from their name to information manager/Cost manager.

  • Shift from “informational” role to an “influential” role.

  • To develop alliance with- finance, MIS/IT, industrial engineering, corporate planning.

  • To actively participate along with managers in decision making and strategy implementation.

  • Change in mind-set from product profitability to customer profitability analysis.

  • No more a scorer of the cricket match – but to be manager advisor to develop appropriate strategy to win the match.

  • Management accountant needs to lead the effort in training managers to use accounting information along with balancing it with other key data sources.

  • FOREX and Treasury function will be important profit centres.

Training needs

  • “If you want to remain employed, you have to remain employable” – Jack Welch, CEO-GE.

  • Dilemma for the management accountant will be to either change or cease to exist.

  • Management accountant must learn fast, forget even faster and focus on winning.

  • Management accountant requires very different skills from those that accountants needed to fill the narrow role that has been adopted by many finance professionals over the last three decades.

  • Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programme be made compulsory by the institute for skill upgradation and aquiring the latest technology.

  • Able to work well under pressure.

  • Development of multi-disciplinary skill.

  • Good communication skill – oral, written and presentation and a team player.

  • Ability and drive to work against strict deadlines and targets.

  • Ability to work with minimum supervision and a busy and dynamic work environment.

  • Ability to prioritise multiple urgent tasks.

  • Possessing good public relations skill.

  • Adding a new skill to executive skill-set, every few years.

  • To develop expertise in new ‘Green Field’ projects like-

    • Infrastructure sector (Energy, Transport etc.)

    • Information and Communication sector

    • Service sector

    • Agro based industries

Changes in tools and techniques

  • Target costing v/s. Historical costing.

  • Life cycle costing.

  • Activity Based Costing (ABC)ABM.

  • Total Cost Management (TCM)

  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

  • Benchmarking.

  • Kaizen costing.

  • EVA / CVA

  • Total Quality Management / ISO.

  • Cycle time reduction (time compression).

  • Supply chain management (SCM).

  • Just in time (JIT).

  • Elimination of dysfunctional activities.

  • Out sourcing and co-sourcing activities.

  • Defect prevention v/s. fault rectification.

  • Zero Based budgeting.

  • Traditional budgeting v/s. New budgeting (comparative Table enclosed).

  • Full year budget exercise v/s reactive rolling forecast (computer generated budgets are obsolete the minute they are printed).

  • Dis-continuity of time cycle – month end and year end- and to invent information system to handle multiple time horizons simultaneously.

  • Radical change in IT/MIS e.g.

    • Integrated database that meet the total business requirements (like ERP Software).

    • MIS that is accessible and easy to use by all staff.

    • Rich supply of information in the form of a variety of report.

    • MIS for decision-making.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear’. – E. H. Harriman.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.’ –

C. F. Kettering.

You can contact Mr V R Kedia on +9193241 80717 or email vrkedia@vsnl.com

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This is a guest post by Mr. V R Kedia B.com FICWA. He is a practising Cost & Management Accountant from Mumbai

Shape of the things to come

  • Effect of LPG – Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation – Global competition, Fittest will survive, sub – optimal units have to die.

  • Size, strong balance sheets and a history of achievements are no longer guarantees of continued success.

  • Global competition – strategic alliance networks and massive engineering efforts place new demand on all professionals.

  • Many of old hierarchies will be replaced by flat structures.

  • Every organisation is undergoing a process of internal churning.

  • Employees will be judged by their delivery of agreed output and level of services, not on spending 8 hours a day attending their place of work.

  • Financial information will be considered as only one portion of the balanced scorecard of measures used in organisational decision making.

  • Knowledge will replace physical and financial capital as an organisations primary resource.

  • Knowledge and application of knowledge will create competitive advantage.

  • People will have to be accustomed to work in permanent stage of emergency.

  • More empowerment at the individual level.

  • Adoption of team based organisation.

  • Internet is rapidly transitioning businesses into real time.

Source: Megapixel

Present role of Management Accountants – Conceptions & Misconceptions

  • Cost and Management accounting system had often become of little importance to managers. Many regarded them as minor routine belonging to the accountants, used to evaluate stocks and prepare monthly results speedily.

  • There are all the obvious things to do: Statutory and Financial accounting, Taxation compliance, Funding, Management reporting and so on. All of this tends to be in the background; it just has to happen in any event. Management Accountants have not yet progressed more towards bridging the gap between managers and accountants and they have yet to concern more with looking towards the future – at where business is going and what is going to happen.

  • Very few conceptual modifications have been brought in, in the cost and management accounting in the last 40 years.

  • Cost is too important to be left to the cost and management accountant.

Futuristic role of Management Accountants

  • Most of us will be doing the job, which we have never learnt and quite different from what we have been doing so far

  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

  • We have to undergo the process of “Learning, Un-learning and re-learning” more frequently.

  • Industry will be requiring “learning” professional rather than “learned” professional.

  • Future will be “knowledge era”. So obsolesce of knowledge will be very fast and more visible among accounting professionals.

  • Management Accountant must re-orient its capabilities, otherwise he will be overtaken by other professionals.

  • Management Accountant has to be futuristic instead of provider of historic or current information. He should ask “how better” and help management in decision-making level and for performance improvement.

  • ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge’. – Albert Einstein.

  • The responsibility of the management accountant is less on forecasting the future and more on contributing to its creation.

  • Management Accountant will more often play the role of a catalyst / changing agent rather than an accountant.

  • Management accountant will have to be more adaptable to be a versatile professional rather than an accounting specialist.

  • Quality of “leadership” will be more in demand than that of a “manager” or an accountant.

  • Out –cost ascertainment, product costing and cost control. In –cost management, activity-costing etc.

  • Re-positioning of the management accountant – make it more relevant and useful to the organisation.

  • Management accountant to change the “Accountant” from their name to information manager/Cost manager.

  • Shift from “informational” role to an “influential” role.

  • To develop alliance with- finance, MIS/IT, industrial engineering, corporate planning.

  • To actively participate along with managers in decision making and strategy implementation.

  • Change in mind-set from product profitability to customer profitability analysis.

  • No more a scorer of the cricket match – but to be manager advisor to develop appropriate strategy to win the match.

  • Management accountant needs to lead the effort in training managers to use accounting information along with balancing it with other key data sources.

  • FOREX and Treasury function will be important profit centres.

Training needs

  • “If you want to remain employed, you have to remain employable” – Jack Welch, CEO-GE.

  • Dilemma for the management accountant will be to either change or cease to exist.

  • Management accountant must learn fast, forget even faster and focus on winning.

  • Management accountant requires very different skills from those that accountants needed to fill the narrow role that has been adopted by many finance professionals over the last three decades.

  • Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programme be made compulsory by the institute for skill upgradation and aquiring the latest technology.

  • Able to work well under pressure.

  • Development of multi-disciplinary skill.

  • Good communication skill – oral, written and presentation and a team player.

  • Ability and drive to work against strict deadlines and targets.

  • Ability to work with minimum supervision and a busy and dynamic work environment.

  • Ability to prioritise multiple urgent tasks.

  • Possessing good public relations skill.

  • Adding a new skill to executive skill-set, every few years.

  • To develop expertise in new ‘Green Field’ projects like-

    • Infrastructure sector (Energy, Transport etc.)

    • Information and Communication sector

    • Service sector

    • Agro based industries

Source: National Geographic

Changes in tools and techniques

  • Target costing v/s. Historical costing.

  • Life cycle costing.

  • Activity Based Costing (ABC)ABM.

  • Total Cost Management (TCM)

  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

  • Benchmarking.

  • Kaizen costing.

  • EVA / CVA

  • Total Quality Management / ISO.

  • Cycle time reduction (time compression).

  • Supply chain management (SCM).

  • Just in time (JIT).

  • Elimination of dysfunctional activities.

  • Out sourcing and co-sourcing activities.

  • Defect prevention v/s. fault rectification.

  • Zero Based budgeting.

  • Traditional budgeting v/s. New budgeting (comparative Table enclosed).

  • Full year budget exercise v/s reactive rolling forecast (computer generated budgets are obsolete the minute they are printed).

  • Dis-continuity of time cycle – month end and year end- and to invent information system to handle multiple time horizons simultaneously.

  • Radical change in IT/MIS e.g.

    • Integrated database that meet the total business requirements (like ERP Software).

    • MIS that is accessible and easy to use by all staff.

    • Rich supply of information in the form of a variety of report.

    • MIS for decision-making.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear’. – E. H. Harriman.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.’ –

C. F. Kettering.

You can contact Mr V R Kedia on +9193241 80717 or email vrkedia@vsnl.com

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This is part 3 and concluding part of SAP FICO certification questions. Preparation for the SAP certification is quite daunting. The best sources is to read the training materials which is provided during the certification. You should read every line of it and any doubts test it in the system.

Take a test on this question

When entering a document using a foreign currency, which date is used to determine the exchange rate if the translation date is not entered ?(Single)

A. Posting date

B. Document date

C. Entry date

D. Baseline date

I got the answer wrong the first time. Write your answer. Check the solution at the end of the post.

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Previous posts:

SAP FICO Questions – 1

SAP FICO Questions – 2


26. Choose the correct statements regarding recurring documents. (Multi)

A. When creating a recurring document, the valid time period must be defined.

B. The posting date is determined by either the run date or the run schedule.

C. Field values can be changed in recurring document.

D. After running the recurring document posting, the next run date cannot be displayed.

E. The original recurring document can be deleted from the batch input menu.


27. In manual bank statement customizing, you must (Multi)

A. Define an internal activity

B. Define a posting rule

C. Define a posting type

D. Define a currency

E. Define an account symbol


28. Which of the following statements about manual planning are correct?(Multi)

A. The planning type determines which bank accounts the plan amount to be inputted to.

B. The expiration date shows how long the payment advice is included in planning.

C. The payment advices for editing can be changed, archived, or reactivated.

D. Archived payment advices are included in planning till the value date.

E. The retention periods are determined by the bank account name.


29. Bank accounts should be controlled as follows when Cash Management is in use:(Multi)

A. Open items are managed for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account.

B. Both the main bank account and the bank clearing account permit line item displays.

C. The main bank account and the bank clearing account use the same sort key.

D. The value date in the field status string for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account must accept entry.

E. The cash-relevance flag in the master records for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account must be set.


30. Which of the following statements about creating customer master records are correct? (Multi)

A. An account group always gets assigned to a customer.

B. The company code is always a required entry.

C. The account number may be assigned by the user externally.

D. Information on each screen may be defined in configuration as mandatory, suppressed or optional, depending upon the account group.

E. Information on each screen may be defined in configuration as mandatory, suppressed or optional, depending upon the company code.


31. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multi)

A. A customer master is divided by client level and company code level.

B. In case of one-time customer you have to enter the customer’s address in the document itself.

C. Address, control data, and reconciliation account are included in the client level of the customer.

D. The most efficient way to create master records is to work with the external number range not internal number range.


32. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multi)

A. If a customer is also a vendor, the system can include outstanding Accounts Receivable invoice items in payment program.

B. If a customer is also a vendor, the system can include outstanding Accounts Payable invoice items when you clear incoming
payment receipts for the customer.

C. The reconciliation account defined on the customer master record is an account used to reconcile CO transactions back to FI.

D. All customer belonging to the same account group must be assigned to the same reconciliation account.

E. The alternative payer is used to transfer outstanding receivable item to the alternative payer’s account.


33. Bulk change of line item – this function allows you to change a whole group of line items simultaneously, instead of having to change individual items in the documents. What data can you change using this function?(Multi)

A. The reconciliation account

B. The company code

C. The payment terms and payment block

D. The house bank and payment method


34. Which of the following order types are internal orders?(Multi)

A. Result analysis orders for posting accrual costs in CO.

B. Capital investment orders for creating assets.

C. Maintenance orders.

D. Sales orders for make-to-order function

E. CO production orders.


35.Which of the following statements are correct regarding Internal Orders?(Single)

A. Planning transactions are allowed under any status.

B. Once an order has been released, only closing entries can be made.

C. Transactions can be allowed or disallowed depending in the
order status.

D. Additional order status categories can be created in the order master.


36.Which of the following statements is true about CO production orders?(Multi)

A. It is an internal order used to control production from a cost accounting point of view.

B. Bills of materials and routings are required.

C. It is not possible to post goods movements to and from the order.

D. You can post primary costs from Financial Accounting to the order.

E. You can post secondary costs from overhead calculation to the order.


37.Which statements are true regarding direct and indirect activity allocations? (Multi)

A. If both the amount of the activity used by the receiver and the total output activity quantity of the sender can be measured, then indirect activity allocation is used.

B. If the amount of activity consumed by the receiver is not measured, then indirect activity allocation is used.

C. Manual activity input planning cannot be performed if actual activities are allocated indirectly.

D. If direct activity allocation is used, the total output activity quantity is determined by summing all of the activity quantities allocated.


38. The primary cost element is one type of master data in Controlling. Before you can create a new primary cost element, certain prerequisites need to be fulfilled.

Which of the following conditions must be fulfilled BEFORE you can create primary cost elements?(Multi)

A. The controlling area must be defined.

B. The cost center must be defined.

C. The G/L account must be defined.

D. The plant must be in the system.

E. The business areas have been defined.


39. What is the difference between distribution and assessments? (Multi)

A. Distribution can be made for both planned and actual figures; assessments cannot.

B. Distributions can be made using statistical key figures; assessments cannot.

C. Distributions are used when the original cost information is necessary on the receiver; assessments are used when this information is not necessary on the receiver.

D. Distributions are made using the original primary cost elements; assessments are made using secondary cost elements.

You should remain calm and relaxed on the SAP Certification Examination. The examination will be computer based and will consist of singe as well as multiple choice questions. I had finished my answers in first one and hour of the examination but stayed there to check my answers again. I revised lot of my answers particularly the multiple choice ones. So it is a good idea to stay in the examination hall for allotted hours. The moment your time is up, you get the results.

The key to pass SAP certification is to read the SAP training documentation, try out the exercises and revise. You will pass the certifications. Good Luck.

The answer to the question

Q. When entering a document using a foreign currency, which date is used to determine the exchange rate if the translation date is not entered ?

A. B. Document Date

Any queries, please comment on the blog post.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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This is part 3 and concluding part of Certification questions. Preparation for the SAP certification is quite daunting. The best sources is to read the training materials which is provided during the certification. You should read every line of it and any doubts test it in the system.

Take a test on this question

When entering a document using a foreign currency, which date is used to determine the exchange rate if the translation date is not entered ?(Single)

A. Posting date

B. Document date

C. Entry date

D. Baseline date

I got the answer wrong the first time. Write your answer. Check the solution at the end of the post.

Source: Pixadaus

Previous posts:

SAP FICO Questions – 1

SAP FICO Questions – 2

26. Choose the correct statements regarding recurring documents. (Multi)

A. When creating a recurring document, the valid time period must be defined.

B. The posting date is determined by either the run date or the run schedule.

C. Field values can be changed in recurring document.

D. After running the recurring document posting, the next run date cannot be displayed.

E. The original recurring document can be deleted from the batch input menu.

27. In manual bank statement customizing, you must (Multi)

A. Define an internal activity

B. Define a posting rule

C. Define a posting type

D. Define a currency

E. Define an account symbol

28. Which of the following statements about manual planning are correct?(Multi)

A. The planning type determines which bank accounts the plan amount to be inputted to.

B. The expiration date shows how long the payment advice is included in planning.

C. The payment advices for editing can be changed, archived, or reactivated.

D. Archived payment advices are included in planning till the value date.

E. The retention periods are determined by the bank account name.

29. Bank accounts should be controlled as follows when Cash Management is in use:(Multi)

A. Open items are managed for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account.

B. Both the main bank account and the bank clearing account permit line item displays.

C. The main bank account and the bank clearing account use the same sort key.

D. The value date in the field status string for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account must accept entry.

E. The cash-relevance flag in the master records for both the main bank account and the bank clearing account must be set.

30. Which of the following statements about creating customer master records are correct? (Multi)

A. An account group always gets assigned to a customer.

B. The company code is always a required entry.

C. The account number may be assigned by the user externally.

D. Information on each screen may be defined in configuration as mandatory, suppressed or optional, depending upon the account group.

E. Information on each screen may be defined in configuration as mandatory, suppressed or optional, depending upon the company code.

31. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multi)

A. A customer master is divided by client level and company code level.

B. In case of one-time customer you have to enter the customer’s address in the document itself.

C. Address, control data, and reconciliation account are included in the client level of the customer.

D. The most efficient way to create master records is to work with the external number range not internal number range.

32. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multi)

A. If a customer is also a vendor, the system can include outstanding Accounts Receivable invoice items in payment program.

B. If a customer is also a vendor, the system can include outstanding Accounts Payable invoice items when you clear incoming
payment receipts for the customer.

C. The reconciliation account defined on the customer master record is an account used to reconcile CO transactions back to FI.

D. All customer belonging to the same account group must be assigned to the same reconciliation account.

E. The alternative payer is used to transfer outstanding receivable item to the alternative payer’s account.

33. Bulk change of line item – this function allows you to change a whole group of line items simultaneously, instead of having to change individual items in the documents. What data can you change using this function?(Multi)

A. The reconciliation account

B. The company code

C. The payment terms and payment block

D. The house bank and payment method

34. Which of the following order types are internal orders?(Multi)

A. Result analysis orders for posting accrual costs in CO.

B. Capital investment orders for creating assets.

C. Maintenance orders.

D. Sales orders for make-to-order function

E. CO production orders.

35.Which of the following statements are correct regarding Internal Orders?(Single)

A. Planning transactions are allowed under any status.

B. Once an order has been released, only closing entries can be made.

C. Transactions can be allowed or disallowed depending in the
order status.

D. Additional order status categories can be created in the order master.

36.Which of the following statements is true about CO production orders?(Multi)

A. It is an internal order used to control production from a cost accounting point of view.

B. Bills of materials and routings are required.

C. It is not possible to post goods movements to and from the order.

D. You can post primary costs from Financial Accounting to the order.

E. You can post secondary costs from overhead calculation to the order.

37.Which statements are true regarding direct and indirect activity allocations? (Multi)

A. If both the amount of the activity used by the receiver and the total output activity quantity of the sender can be measured, then indirect activity allocation is used.

B. If the amount of activity consumed by the receiver is not measured, then indirect activity allocation is used.

C. Manual activity input planning cannot be performed if actual activities are allocated indirectly.

D. If direct activity allocation is used, the total output activity quantity is determined by summing all of the activity quantities allocated.

38. The primary cost element is one type of master data in Controlling. Before you can create a new primary cost element, certain prerequisites need to be fulfilled.

Which of the following conditions must be fulfilled BEFORE you can create primary cost elements?(Multi)

A. The controlling area must be defined.

B. The cost center must be defined.

C. The G/L account must be defined.

D. The plant must be in the system.

E. The business areas have been defined.

39. What is the difference between distribution and assessments? (Multi)

A. Distribution can be made for both planned and actual figures; assessments cannot.

B. Distributions can be made using statistical key figures; assessments cannot.

C. Distributions are used when the original cost information is necessary on the receiver; assessments are used when this information is not necessary on the receiver.

D. Distributions are made using the original primary cost elements; assessments are made using secondary cost elements.

You should remain calm and relaxed on the SAP Certification Examination. The examination will be computer based and will consist of singe as well as multiple choice questions. I had finished my answers in first one and hour of the examination but stayed there to check my answers again. I revised lot of my answers particularly the multiple choice ones. So it is a good idea to stay in the examination hall for allotted hours. The moment your time is up, you get the results.

The key to pass SAP certification is to read the SAP training documentation, try out the exercises and revise. You will pass the certifications. Good Luck.

The answer to the question

Q. When entering a document using a foreign currency, which date is used to determine the exchange rate if the translation date is not entered ?

A. B. Document Date

Any queries, please comment on the blog post.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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United Kingdom

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