Asset Accounting Integration
You can integrate all business transactions that are posted in Asset Accounting in Funds Management. For each transaction type, you can control which postings are relevant to the budget and which should only be updated statistically in Funds Management. “Actual” integration means that assigned values are recorded in Funds Management. When you are using “actual” integration, active availability control is also performed in Funds Management for asset acquisitions, transfers, various other transactions and document reversals, using the tolerance limits defined in the Customizing of Funds Management Government
.
If you are using “statistical” update, no assigned values are generated, and no check is made using active availability control. These values are displayed separately in the information system (statistical indicator).
Caution
If you use the component Request
(PSM-FM-PO-RE), note the following:
Only asset acquisitions can be posted with requests, no asset retirements. If you assign an account to an asset in an acceptance request , you can only enter one transaction type for asset acquisitions. This means that a credit memo is updated instead of an asset retirement in Asset Accounting.
If you want to post asset retirements in your organization, you cannot use the acceptance request. You must post the asset retirements in Asset Accounting.
Using message control, you can prevent an acceptance request with account assignment being posted to an asset (transaction type asset acquisition). This means that you can prevent asset retirements being updated as credit memos in Asset Accounting. To do this, choose the following path in Customizing 
Funds Management Government
Basic Settings
Change Message Control
. Set the message 045 Credit Memo Updated in Asset Accounting
as an error message in the application area FICUSTOM.
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
For more information, see Prerequisites for the Update in Funds Management.
Manual Account Assignment
If you want to enter the FM account assignment elements manually, when you make a posting, the field status variants for the G/L accounts in Asset Accounting must be maintained in the Customizing of Financial Accounting
. Otherwise the fields Commitment Item
, Funds Center
and, if necessary, Fund
and Functional Area
in the coding block are not ready for input. For more information about this, see Customizing Field Status.
Account Assignment Derivation
If you want the FM account assignment to be derived from the assignment of FM account assignment elements to other account assignment objects (such as, commitment item to G/L account or funds center to cost center), you must define these assignments in your account assignment derivation strategy. For more information, see Deriving Commitment Items from G/L Accounts and Deriving FM Account Assignment Objects from CO Account Assignments .
Note
You can use fund and functional area as independent account assignment elements in Asset Accounting. There are no prerequisites in this case. You can find more information about this under Fund/Functional Area as Account Assignment Objects in Asset Accounting.
Budget-Relevant and Statistical Posting
You can control which postings are budget-relevant and which are only updated statistically using the corresponding derivation steps in your account assignment derivation. You derive a commitment item with financial transaction 30 for budget-relevant postings in accordance with the transaction type (field ASSETTRTYP transaction type for fixed assets). A commitment item with financial transaction 30 must also be derived for statistical postings, but this commitment item must be flagged as statistical in the master record.
Activities
If Funds Management is active and the above preconditions are fulfilled, the account assignment fields for the commitment item, funds center and, if necessary, fund and functional area are ready for input in Asset Accounting postings. If you do not enter the account assignment manually, the system derives and automatically enters the account assignment based on the settings and assignments you have made. The FM account assignment can also be derived automatically with automatic postings in Controlling (such as an order settlement for an asset).
If you have defined Controlling objects (cost element, order, and WBS element) in the asset master record, you can use a function module provided by SAP to derive a temporary CO object from which the funds center is derived in a later derivation step. In this derivation step, you must define a derivation rule in which the funds center is derived from the CO object. To use data from the asset master record, you can use the function module FMDT_READ_MD_ASSET
.
To copy this function module as a derivation step for the account assignment derivation into your derivation strategy, go to the Customizing for Funds Management Government
under Master Data
Assignments to Account Assignments from Other Components
Define Account Assignment Derivation
.
Note
In Asset Accounting, you can use fund and functional area as independent account assignment elements and define them in the asset master record, like the CO Objects, by activating them in Customizing. For more information on this topic, see the Implementation Guide for Funds Management Government
under Administration
, in section Activate Account Assignment Elements
and under Fund/Functional Area as Account Assignment Objects in Asset Accounting.
The following document shows the options you have for controlling the transfer of posting data from Asset Accounting to Funds Management using the control parameter financial transaction
and the control of the commitment item as statistical. Example: Transferring Posting Data from Asset Accounting.
For more information about postings in Asset Accounting, see the documentation Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
.