Aim of the Certificate Exam

• Provide individuals with a mark of excellence that is extremely recognized by the clients and seeks within across the industries
• Empower individuals to execute tasks with confidence and skill
• Differentiate individual in a crowded job market

Exam Content

Types of Question

The examination consists of 80 Multiple Choice Questions. Multiple-choice questions can be of following two types

• Multiple Response: Two or More Correct response from the given options best suits the statement or answers the question.
• Single Response: Only One correct response from the given options best suits the statement or answers the question.

Exam Duration

Candidates will have 180 minutes for attempting 80 multiple-choice questions. So, it becomes important for the candidates to time-box the exam and restrict spending too much time on one question or one topic.

Exam Results

This SAP certification is a pass or fail exam. The examination is scored against a minimum standard established by SAP who are guided by certification industry best practices and guidelines. It is important for the candidates to at least score 56% in the examination to be termed as Pass. The score will be notified on-line immediately after finishing the exam. After passing the exam, an SAP Global Certification digital badge will be sent to the registered email ID.

Reference: https://training.sap.com/shop/certification/c_tfin22_67-sap-certified-application-associate---management-accounting-with-sap-erp-60-ehp7-g/

Topics to Cover

Following are the major topics along with their weight-age in the examination, giving you a clear view of which topics, you should focus on for the certification. Note: SAP reserves the right to change and update the content (topics, items and weight-age) at any point or time.

• Basics of SAP ERP and SAP Solution Manager: Less than 8% Knowledge of describing the SAP ERP Solution and defining the integration between solution manager and SAP ERP.

• Product Cost Planning: More than 12% Ability to determine and configure cost planning of a product, analyzing profitability and costing versions for alternative costings, determine cost structures and its various types like cost element structure, cost component structure, planning requirements, costing variants and multi-level costings. Also ability to carry out price update in the material master record based on the cost and profitability analysis.

• Cost Center Accounting: More than 12% Knowledge to define, create and configure cost centers, cost center hierarchies and cost center groups. Also it validates if the candidate is capable to determine the characteristics and attributes of a cost center. Candidates also need to focus on the usage of Cost Center Accounting, types of planning functionality, type of activities in cost center accounting, planning the requirements, planning the allocations based on requirement and planning actual allocations for the cost centers.

• Organizational Assessment and Process Integration: Less than 8% Ability to define scopes and processes in management accounting, cross-company code design, sub-contracting, production execution, sales pricing, inbound freight, stock transfers, inventory valuation and transfer pricing, work in process rules and high-level requirements for organization units. Configure budgeting and availability control settings and period end closing, define statistical key figures and assign the controlling area to company codes and operating concern. Check number ranges and first integration flows with other modules and configure versions.

• Profit Center Accounting: 8 to 12% Ability to create organizational charts for profit centers, create Profit Centers, check assignment of master data, and configure closing for profit center accounting at the end of the period.

• Reporting: Less than 8% Ability to specify reporting requirements for cost centers, configuring reports for cost center, and creating and drilling down reports.

• Cost Object Controlling: More than 12% Knowledge of determining and configuring cost object control planning. Also Defining WIP, analyzing results, variances and recognizing revenue along with configuring closing of cost objects at the end of the period.

• Internal Orders: More than 12% Capability to distinguish between order category and order type. Determine actual requirements for internal orders, plan data, commitments and determine closing activities at the end of the period. Candidate should be able to define, create and configure internal orders, create a concept for internal order accounting, customize internal order accounting, determine settlement rules and configure period-end closing for internal order accounting.

• Profitability Analysis: More than 12% Candidate should be well versed in defining value fields, characteristics, summary characteristics. Also should be able to determine and design the process flow and security requirements and develop authorization concept for reporting. Candidate should be able to conduct profitability analysis and determine the operating concern and is able to assign it to controlling area. Also defining currency and assign the account charts, analyzing results and revenue recognition.

Based on the above-mentioned syllabus and their related weightage, there is no one topic a candidate should focus on or a candidate can leave while preparing for the examination. It is important for the candidate to go through and be proficient in every topic.