Account Assignment Elements

The following account assignment elements are required for budget entry and reporting: commitment items, commitment item groups, functional areas, functional area groups, funds centers, funded programs, funded program groups, and funds. The entities used by the federal government of the United Arab Emirates (AE) are mapped to these account assignment elements.

Features

Mapping

The AE budget entities are mapped to the standard account assignment elements as follows:

AE Entity	Account Assignment Element
Main Project	Funded Program Group
Project	Funded Program
Department	Funds Center
Program	Functional Area Group
Subprogram	Functional Area
Budget Chapter	Commitment Item Group
Account Group	Commitment Item Group
Fund	Fund

Programs and Subprograms

To enable budget entry and reporting, you must create a functional area group that represents the overall hierarchy of programs and subprograms. You assign the required programs to the top node of the overall hierarchy and the subprograms to the programs. The structure and mapping are as follows:

Hierarchy Level	AE Entity	Account Assignment Element
1	All Programs	Functional Area Group
2	Program	Functional Area Group
3	Subprogram	Functional Area

During budget entry and reporting, the system can identify the program to which a subprogram belongs by checking the hierarchy. For more information about how the system determines the relevant hierarchy, see Customizing for Groups.

Budget Chapters and Account Groups

To enable budget entry and reporting, you must create a commitment item group that represents the overall hierarchy of budget chapters. You assign the required budget chapters to the top node of the overall hierarchy, and the account groups and commitment items to the budget chapters. You can also assign commitment items to the account groups. The structure and mapping are as follows:

Hierarchy Level	AE Entity	Account Assignment Element
1	All Budget Chapters	Commitment Item Group
2	Budget Chapter	Commitment Item Group
3	Account Group	Commitment Item Group
4	Commitment Item	Commitment Item

During budget entry and reporting, the system can identify the account group to which a commitment item belongs by checking the hierarchy. For more information about how the system determines the relevant hierarchy, see Customizing for Groups.

Activities

To define functional area groups, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting Public Sector Management Funds Management Master Data Account Assignment Elements Functional Area Functional Area Group Create (transaction FM_SETS_FUNCTION1) or Change (transaction FM_SETS_FUNCTION2).
To define commitment item groups, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Accounting Public Sector Management Funds Management Master Data Account Assignment Elements Commitment Item Commitment Item Group Create (transaction FM_SETS_FIPEX1) or Change (transaction FM_SETS_FIPEX2).

For information about generating commitment items and commitment item groups automatically, see Generation of Commitment Items and Commitment Item Groups.

Note Note

To display the total payments to vendors in the budget reports, you must assign financial transaction 60 (Post rcvbls and pybls from goods + services) in the master record of the commitment item that is entered in the G/L account of the vendor.

End of the note.