Posting Parameters 

Use

If multiple objects are assigned to a real estate contract, then certain agreements (groups of parameters) have to be made for individual objects in the contract.

To avoid having to create such agreements over and over for each object, you can group them as a term under a single ID.

The following groups of parameters are available in the real estate contract and on the rental object for posting and calculating conditions:

·         Posting (data for payment, tax and dunning)

·         Frequency (payment frequency, payment form, and due date of condition amount)

·         Organizational assignment (profit center, business area)

¡        You can assign special due date correction rules for the due date of the condition amount within a frequency term. You have to define these due date correction rules in Customizing. Choose

SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® Flexible Real Estate Management (Enterprise Extension) ® Conditions and Flows ® Calculation of Periods and Due Dates ® Due Date Correction Rule

Be sure to read the documentation on this Customizing activity.

¡        The settings for fixed periods (quarter days) are also found by choosing Calculation of Periods and Due Dates ® Define Fixed Periods (For Example, Quarter Days). For more information, see Frequency Term: Quarter Days (UK).

Activities

Create Terms

For each term category (posting, frequency, organizational assignment), the system defaults a standard term during contract and rental object processing. You can change these standard terms but you cannot delete them from the table. The conditions are automatically assigned and are displayed on the Conditions sub-tab.

If you choose  with the quick info text Create Term, you can create different terms for each standard term. The terms are numbered. They can be modified. If you want to delete them, choose  with the quick info text Delete Selected Term. If the term is to be changed, you have to assign the conditions on the Conditions tab page (subtab Terms).

 

Change Terms

If you choose  New with the quick info text Add Validity Period, you can create new time slots for the standard terms and all other terms. This means that if, for instance, the payment method changes, you do not have to create a new posting term. Instead you store the changed data in the existing term starting from the date of change by using the time slot function described above. Since the assignment of the term to the condition is based on the number, you do not have to change anything on the condition screen.

 

Changing a Term Within a Calculation Period of the Cash Flow

·         Frequency term

The calculation period is divided into two time frames. (For an example of how due dates can be handled when you change the frequency term for quarter days, see Quarter Days: Calculation Examples.)

·         Posting term

The changes do not become effective until the next calculation period.

·         Term for organizational assignment

The changes do not become effective until the next calculation period.

If you want a prorated calculation last two term categories, you have to create a new frequency term at the same time (with the same data if appropriate).

The time slots are not displayed in the table of posting parameters. If you have entered several changes to a term, you can access these in the detail screen using the  and  buttons.