Manual Accruals 
Manual Accruals
Purpose
The Manual Accruals component allows you to calculate and post accruals in General Ledger Accounting automatically.
You enter the date once for a business transaction that you have to enter. On the basis of this data, the system calculates the amounts to be accrued. You can also simulate these amounts. In each period, you can start an accrual run, meaning that all accruals are posted for the various business transactions.
The functions in Manual Accruals support the use of
parallel valuation methods. This means that you can also calculate and post accruals for a number of accounting principles.The Manual Accruals component is based on the Accrual Engine tool. The transactions to be accrued are managed in Manual Accruals. The processes for calculating and posting accruals, on the other hand, are managed in the Accrual Engine. For more details, see
Manual Accruals and the Accrual Engine.Implementation Considerations
Before you can use the functions in Manual Accruals, you have to make extensive Customizing settings. For example, you have to define the accounting principles according to which you want to accrue your business transactions and define the calculation rules according to which you want to calculate the amounts to be accrued. For automatic posting of accruals, you have to define account determination.
A number of Customizing settings also allow you to tailor the functions to your individual requirements. For example, you can add new fields (parameters) to the functions.
You can find these settings in Financials Customizing under General Ledger Accounting ® Business Transactions ® Manual Accruals.
Integration
Financial Accounting also provides you with the option of posting accruals with
recurring entries. In contrast to recurring entries, the functions in Manual Accruals offer you the following benefits:Features
The following functions are available for calculating and posting accruals:
To enter the data for a business transaction that you want to accrue, you first have to create an accrual object. In an accrual object, all data is grouped together that the system requires to calculate and post accruals for this business transaction.
The functions for creating and changing an accrual object are the central functions of this component. This is where accrual processes are managed and controlled.
In a periodic accrual run, the accrual postings are made for the posting period. You can reverse a complete accrual run after it has been carried out.
Totals values and line items are stored for the accrual postings. You can display these.
For detailed information on the functions in the Manual Accruals component, see Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® General Ledger ® Periodic Processing ® Manual Accruals from the SAP Easy Access screen.