Business Rule Setting
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation delivers predefined functions to calculate and post amounts required to support common accounting activities, such as currency translation as well as matching and elimination of inter-unit balances.
Features
For each predefined data package and script logic, there are one or more business rule tables, in which a business user can configure rules. The consolidation engine uses these rules to perform all the appropriate calculations on a user-selectable region of data, and write the calculated results into the database
Business rules provide the flexibility for a business user to customize the delivered logical functions, to meet specific business needs, without having to understand either scripting or programming.
To run these programs, use the Data Manager packages.
The following table lists the consolidation process tasks and the corresponding business rules:
|
Consolidation Task |
Process Chain Name |
Script Logic Files Name |
Business Rule Name |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Balance carry forward |
/CPMB/OPENING_BA LANCES |
COPY_OPENING.LGF |
Carry-forward rules |
|
Currency translation |
/CPMB/FX_RESTATM ENT |
FXTRANS.LGF |
Currency translation rules |
|
Intercompany reconciliation |
/CPMB/ICDATA |
ICDATA.LGF |
No rules needed |
|
Intercompany balance booking |
/CPMB/ICBOOKING |
ICBOOKING.LGF |
Intercompany booking |
|
Legal consolidation (elimination and adjustment) |
/CPMB/LEGAL_CONS OLIDATION |
CONSOLIDATION.LGF |
Eliminations and adjustments and details |
|
Account calculation (cash flow function) |
/CPMB/RUNCALCAC COUNT |
CALCACCOUNT.LGF |
Account-based calculation |
|
US widely used Intercompany elimination |
/CPMB/IC_ELIMINATI ON |
ICELIM.LGF |
US elimination |
|
Equity Pick Up |
/CPMB/EQUITY_PICKUP |
EQUITYPICKUP.LGF |
Equity Pick Up |
For each process, the predefined Data Manager packages with their associated logic scripts and rule tables are executed, performing the consolidation task according to the business rule customization. Any specific business requirement needs to be configured in the corresponding business rule.