General SAP advice

Dear Experts,
First, sorry if I am writing in the wrong section. Please let me know the right place to post such a question.
I am a young accountant in an old distribution company which is currently catching up on the modern methods. We are implementing SAP.
No one around me has an idea about it and since I used to develop databases previously, it was decided that I would help people after their training period to use SAP and I would also generate ABAP reports.
Please be so kind as to point me to some recent valuable publications (paper or electronic). I would like to learn more about:
SAP in general
FI-CO modules
ABAP programming for report generation
It is important for me to get up on it as early as possible because people would rely on me and I see no one else whocould help me or them.
Also, since I intend to master SAP as far as my tight working schedule allows, I hope I would be usefull to this community so by helping me, you'd be contributing to the community on the long run.
Thanks.

Hello Tod
Welcome to the BPX & SDN . You may want to consider following the FI-CO information to be found at http://help.sap.com and specifically the SAP ERP Central component at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/e1/8e51341a06084de10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm . The financials information can be found there.
I would also recommend that if you have already installed a development environment that you use your Installation key and register on http://service.sap.com . Of course you may already have that and be using that to access SDN. (The support portal has key information regarding Master and Install guides).
I would also review some of the documentation in the SAP best practice repository, if you have a good look around you will find solution scope, business blueprint and configuration information.
http://help.sap.com/bp_wholesalev1500/wholesale_us/documentation/WS_v1500_Solution_Scope_EN_US.doc
For ABAP development I would have a good look around the SDN forums, make sure that you first search for answers to questions that you may have before asking them. Most questions have already been answered in one form or another. You are more likely to get answers if you can show a well thought out question and that you have already spent time trying to find the answer.
regards

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