Federal Government: Revenues Increasing the Budget 

When using the SAP Federal Government solution, you have access to a feature called Revenues Increasing the Budget (RIB). This enables you to use income from customer payments to increase your budget.

For a detailed description of the standard functions, see the revenues increasing the budget documentation in the Funds Management section of the SAP Library.

Note that you can only use the RIB feature if you are still using the former budgeting function. It cannot be used with the Budget Control System (BCS).

The RIB function in Federal Government differs in a number of ways from the standard solution:

·        If you have activated the budgetary ledger (by assigning update profile 0600 to your FM area), a budget document is created each time the budget is increased. It is also necessary to enter the posting date and posting period when making the payment posting.

·        The payment program RFFMS200 must run automatically at the time each payment is posted. To make sure this happens, you need to activate the user exit EXIT_SAPLFMPA_003 in the program.

·        The trading partner must be clearly identified as a trading partner of the federal government.

To do this, enter an appropriate trading partner ID in the control data for the customer or vendor. You do this individually per master record in the Financial Accounting part of the Easy Access menu by choosing Accounts Receivable ®Master Records ®Change and entering your federal government company code on the accounting data page of the master record in question.

Payments made in respect of all customers or vendors identified in this way trigger the RIB feature. If the trading partner field is left blank, the customer/vendor is treated as non-federal.

The difference is that the revenues from federal customers increase the budget as soon as an invoice is issued. Revenues from non-federal customers do not increase the budget until the actual payment is received.