This procedure describes how to enter planned expenses in a trading contract. You can maintain planned expenses until the contract is completed. This data can be referenced when you post expenses to the account.

Case1: Entering expenses when creating a new contract

1. Choose Global Trade ® Trading Contract ® Create.
2. In the contract maintenance screen, follow the menu: Goto ® Expenses ® Planned Expenses with Settlement, or use the button Expenses to enter header line expenses.
3. There are three options for entering expenses, Planned, Unplanned and in this case, choose Planned Expenses with Settlement.
4. To create an expense, select the necessary parameters: Expense class group, Expense class, Accounting type and Posting type, press Enter and the system finds the corresponding condition type.
5. Enter the planned expense values.
6. To return to the contract maintenance screen, choose Back.

Case 2: Changing an existing contract

1. Choose Global Trade ® Trading Contract ® Change.
2. Choose Expenses (Ctrl + F11) to go directly to the expense maintenance screen.
3. On the Planned Expenses with Settlement screen, change the value or add an additional expense condition by selecting Expense class group, Expense class, Accounting type and Posting type, press Enter and the system finds the corresponding condition type.
4. Enter the planned expense values.
5. To adopt the new expense value, choose New Calculation Sales Price.
6. Choose Save to confirm the data changes.

The entered value is transferred to the contract pricing schema. You can see it in the item pricing screen.