Posting Parameters

Use

If multiple objects are assigned to a real estate contract, then certain agreements (groups of parameters) have to be made for individual objects in the contract.

To avoid having to create such agreements over and over for each object, you can group them as a term under a single ID.

The following groups of parameters are available in the real estate contract and on the rental object for posting and calculating conditions:

  • Posting (data for payments, taxes, and dunning; also differing posting term for service charge settlement)

  • Frequency (payment frequency, payment form, and due date of condition amount)

  • Organizational assignment (profit center, business area)

    Note Note

    You can assign special due date correction rules for the due date of the condition amount within a frequency term. You have to define these due date correction rules in Customizing. Choose

    Customizing for Start of the navigation path Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX) Next navigation step Conditions and Flows Next navigation step Calculation of Periods and Due Dates Next navigation step Due Date Correction Rule End of the navigation path

    Be sure to read the documentation on this Customizing activity.

    For the settings for fixed periods (quarter days), choose Start of the navigation path Calculation of Periods and Due Dates Next navigation step Define Fixed Periods (For Example, Quarter Days). End of the navigation path For more information, see Frequency Term: Quarter Days (UK) .

    End of the note.

Activities

Create Terms

For each term category (posting, frequency, organizational assignment), the system defaults a standard term during contract and rental object processing. You can change these standard terms but you cannot delete them from the table. The conditions are automatically assigned and are displayed on the Conditions subtab.

By choosing ( Create Term ), you can create differing terms for each standard term. The terms are numbered. They can be modified. If you want to delete them, choose ( Delete Selected Term ). For these differing terms, you have to individually assign the conditions on the Conditions tab page ( Terms subtab).

Change Terms

If you choose New ( Add Validity Period ), you can create new time slots for the standard terms and all other differing terms. This means that if the payment method changes, for instance, you do not have to create a new posting term. Instead you store the changed data in the existing term starting from the date of change by using the time slot function described above. Since the assignment of the term to the condition is based on the number, you do not have to change anything on the condition screen.

Different Posting Term for Service Charge Settlement

Note Note

To be able to use this function, you have to activate the Enhancements for Service Charge Settlement (SC01) in the Activate Subfunction IMG activity.

For more information, see Customizing for Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX) under Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Activate Subfunction. End of the navigation path

End of the note.

You can enter posting terms in the contract that you use to post the results of service charge settlement (SCS). Using these posting terms allows you to use your own separate payment methods, dunning data, account determinations, and so on, when posting the results of service charge settlement, rather than using the posting rules of your service charge settlement.

You enter these different posting terms for the settlement results in the advance payment condition. The result can be a credit for the tenant or a receivable due from the tenant.

If you defined a condition split in the posting term for service charge settlement, then the system distributes the receivable amount (or the credit memo amount) based on the equivalence numbers you entered. This procedure can be useful if a subsidizer, such as the social welfare office, pays a part of the service charges.

For more information, see Condition Split .

Changing a Term Within a Calculation Period of the Cash Flow

  • Frequency term

    The calculation period is divided into two timeframes. (For an example of how due dates can be handled when you change the frequency term for quarter days, see Quarter Days: Calculation Examples .)

  • Posting term

    The changes do not become effective until the next calculation period.

  • Term for organizational assignment

    The changes do not become effective until the next calculation period.

    If you want a split based on time for the last two term categories, you have to create a new frequency term at the same time (with the same data, if appropriate).

    Note Note

    The time slots are not displayed in the table of posting parameters. If you entered several changes to a term, you can access them in the detail screen using the and buttons.

    End of the note.
Retroactive Changes

Fields are initially locked to processing if they affect the cash flow retroactively and can lead to subsequent receivables or credit memos.

For more information, see Locking User Interface for Retroactive Changes .