In the following example, for the characteristic Sender Profit Center (SPCTR), you will see the posted records and the report with the eliminated and total revenues for comparison. The master data hierarchy for the characteristic Profit Center is displayed below.

The following information is necessary for maintaining the user exit:

Look at the node Profit Center Y in the examp le. Y is the parent node of Y1 and Y2. In the report the revenues for Y2 are eliminated as it has only attained revenue with itself. Profit Center Y1, however, achieves revenue of 100 thousand DMs, as it settled two transactions with Profit Center Y2. Profit Center Y achieved revenue of 44 thousand DMs with Profit Center X. On the group level of Y, however, only 44 thousand DMs are shown in the report since the internal business volume of the group is eliminated. The internal business volume for Profit Center X and its subnodes is also eliminated.

On the top level of the report you can see that an external revenue of 52 thousand DMs is displayed. As rule 4 eliminates along a hierarchy, the revenue which was generated between Profit Centers X and Y is also eliminated. Only the revenue which was achieved with an external receiver counts as external revenue.