Specify report currency (SAP Library

Specify report currency

The settings you make here are only valid for report painter and report writer reports.

In this IMG activity, you determine the report currency.

The report currency can be stored as a default or as a user-specific setting. The default setting applies to all users without user-specific settings.

With the report currency, you determine the currency in which Report Painter reports or planning overviews appear and how the currency is translated.

The settings apply within Overhead Cost Controlling and Cost and Revenue Element Accounting for all planning overviews and Report Painter reports with the key figures "costs", "secondary costs", "actual costs" and "variable costs" in which the currency is not explicitly predefined. The settings are valid, regardless of which component the report currency was specified in.

Reports can appear:

In Cost and Revenue Element Accounting in

Company code currency

Group currency

Controlling area currency

Target currency (defined by the user)

In Overhead Cost Controlling in:

Controlling area currency

Object currency

Transaction currency

Target currency (defined by the user)

If you have specified a target currency, you need to define from which base currency the currency translation is to occur. In Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, the base currency can be the company code, group or controlling area currency. In the Overhead Cost Controlling components, the base currency can be the controlling area, object or transaction currency.

You can also specify whether the currency translation is to take place on the given current exchange rate date or always on a fixed date. You should also specify the required exchange rate type. This allows you to distinguish between, for example, buying rate, bank selling rate and the middle rate.

Requirements

Complete the IMG activity Currencies in the Implementation Guide under "Global Settings".

Activities

Make default settings

1. If you want to create or change default settings, you do not have to enter a user. Choose Execute .

2. Choose Change standard.

3. Make your entries choose Confirm to exit the dialog box.

4. Save your entries.

Make settings for one, several, or all users

1. If you want to create or change the settings for one or more users, enter the corresponding user or users.

To enter several users, choose Multiple selection.

The system then displays a list of all users.

Select the users you want to edit, then choose Copy to leave the dialog box.

The settings of all selected users can now be edited.

If you want to edit the settings for all users with user-specific settings, enter "*". The system displays a list of all users with user-specific settings.

2. Choose Execute.

3. If you selected users without any settings, you can transfer the settings from the default settings by choosing "Yes".

If you want to enter new settings, choose "No".

4. To create new user settings, proceed as follows:

You want to create new settings for a user.

Choose Create and enter the name of the user.

You want to copy the settings for a user from those of an existing user.

Select the existing user. Choose Copy and enter the name of the new user.

You want to copy the settings for a user from the standard settings.

Choose Copy from standard and enter the name of the user.

5. To change user settings, proceed as follows:

You want to change the settings of a user.

Double-click the relevant line.

You want to edit the settings of several users.

Select the relevant lines and double-click one line. In the dialog box, you can display the settings for the selected users by choosing Previous user or Next user .

You want to make the same settings for several users.

Mark the relevant users.

You can select all users, for example, with Select all.

Position the cursor on a line in the column you want to change and choose Multiple replace.

You want to change a certain setting for all users, who fulfill certain filter criteria.

Upon fiscal year change, for example, you changed a cost element group and you would like to store the new group as a selection criterion for all users, who have used the old cost element group up to now.

Select the column header to apply the filter to that column.

Choose Set filter.

Enter the filter criteria and choose Copy. The system displays a list of the users who fulfill the filter criteria.

Choose Select all.

Position the cursor on a line in the column you want to change and choose Multiple replace.

6. Enter the required settings, and choose Copy to exit the dialog box.

7. Save your entries.

Notes on transporting

To transport the default settings, choose Default settings -> Transport.

To transport the settings for individual users, mark the corresponding users, and choose User settings -> Transport.

Further Notes

To edit lists, use the ABAP List Viewer functions. For information on these, see the SAP Library: Cross-Application Components -> General Application Functions (CA-GTF)-> ABAP List Viewer.