Use
If you belong to customer area US Local Government, Federal States and Federal Government and have configured the Funds Management for Fund Accounting, you can use the master data groups on selection in Report-Writer-Reports of Funds Management that are based on FI-SL data.
You also use the groups in the component Controlling (CO) for evaluation purposes in Report-Writer-Reports and to select groups in Controlling transactions.
To do this you can subdivide the account assignment elements (commitment item, funds center, fund and functional area) into groups or
Sets together following certain subdividing criteria.Master data groups, apart from named customer areas and functions are otherwise not supported in Funds Management.
Prerequisites
To use fund groups or functional area groups in CO you have activated the FM account assignment elements Fund or Functional area in Customizing of Funds Management under Global Settings ® Activate account assignment elements.
Features
Group Editing
In a group you can create more segment groups next to the direct combination of certain master data or assign groups that already exist as segment groups. This enables you to subdivide a complex group through segment groups into individual segments that makes it easier to understand. Note that a master record is only allowed to appear for each group once, including the subgroups.
For the assigning of master data, the group editing also supports the entering of intervals. In this context you should note the following: If you have defined the master data selection of a group above an interval (for example, master data interval: AA to ZZ), then the newly created master data, for which this interval definition applies, is automatically assigned to the group.
Non-year-dependent groups
Master data groups are year-independent. You can limit the selection of valid master data in a group by entering a key date. If you are working with year-dependent master data in your organization, then the validity period of an FM master record must lie within the validity period of the group. Otherwise this master record in the group is not taken into account. In such a case you receive the information No valid master record instead of the description of the master record.
You define the key date of a group in the respective group editing transaction under Extras ® Default Values® Structure.
Change documents
You can specify that the editing of groups in change documents for each client and FM account assignment element (or set class) is logged. You call up the change documents in the group editing via Go to ® Change Documents.
You execute the activating of change documents in Customizing of Funds Management Government under Master Data ® Activate c hange documents of master data groups.
See also:
For more information on individual editing functions of master data groups, see the documentation on the component Controlling under:
Editing of master data groups Copying master data groups