Use

The rules for cover eligibility allow you to determine which expenditure FM account assignments are entitled to cover and which are subject to cover within unilateral and reciprocal cover eligibility.

In the rule maintenance, you can also stipulate that an expenditures FM account assignment can use budget from revenues increasing the budget by assigning a revenues FM account assignment to the expenditures FM account assignment.

For revenues cover pools, you can determine which FM account assignments should be part of the cover pool. In the rule maintenance for revenues increasing the budget, you can then define a rule for the call procedure. In this rule, you assign the revenues cover pool to an expenditures FM account assignment.

Prerequisites

Unilateral cover eligibility

In the Customizing of Funds Management Government , you must have created one Budget Memo with the entitled to cover budget memo type (12) and one with the subject to cover budget memo type (13). For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Funds Management Government in the Create Budget Memo section.

Cover Pool

You must have created at least one cover pool in master data maintenance. For more information on this topic, see Cover Pool and Maintain Cover Pool .

Revenues Increasing the Budget

For an expenditures FM account assignment to be able to use budget from revenues increasing the budget, you must have created a rule with the Call Procedure relating to revenues increasing the budget (or the revenues cover pool) for the revenues FM account assignment that is assigned to this expenditures FM account assignment.

Features

Rule Maintenance Transactions

SAP provides three transactions for maintaining cover eligibility relationships:

The Edit Cover Pool transaction only allows you to create and change cover pools. This function provides the only means of maintaining revenues cover pools. The Individual Maintenance and Mass Maintenance transactions allow you to maintain all cover eligibility relationships for expenditures cover pools. In these transactions, rule maintenance is always performed from the perspective of an expenditures FM account assignment.

You can make the following assignments on the tab pages :

On this tab page, you can assign one or more expenditures FM account assignments that are subject to cover to an expenditures FM account assignment that is entitled to cover. When doing so, you must take note that you must define a budget memo with the entitled to cover budget memo type (12) in the Entitled to cover text field and a budget memo with the subject to cover budget memo type (13) in the Subject to cover text field.

On this tab page, you can assign an expenditures cover pool to an expenditures FM account assignment.

You can cause a priority check for this expenditure FM account assignments together with other expenditure FM account assignments through the active availability control (AAC) by entering a grouping characteristic. For more information on this grouping, see Grouping Expenditures FM Account Assignments .

You can define for an FM account assignment in the cover pool that it is only entitled to cover, but not subject to cover, by setting the indicator Only entitled to cover . All FM account assignments contained in the cover pool are then subject to ‘unilateral’ cover with regard to this FM account assignment

On this tab page, you can assign a revenues FM account assignment to the expenditures FM account assignment.

In both individual maintenance and mass maintenance, you can also call the Monitor for Cover Eligibility (RFFMCE01) program. The monitor displays all the rules maintained for the FM account assignment you are processing.

Additional Functions

The rules are created year-dependently. The Copy Cover Eligibility Rules program (RFFMKT13) makes it possible to copy rules from one fiscal year to another, this means that you do not have to create new rules for each year. For more information, see the program documentation.

You can use the Delete Cover Eligibility Rules program (RFFMKT23) to delete all the control data for unilateral and reciprocal cover eligibility that exists for an FM area or fiscal year. For more information, see the program documentation.

Activities

You must restructure the assigned values after the first maintenance of cover eligibility relationships as well as after a change thereof. Only then will the new or changed rule be considered in the checking of the active availability control. For more information on this, refer to Reconstructing Assigned Values .