Component documentationPeriodic and Nonperiodic Copying

 

You use this component when you want to copy the following data from the same consolidation area, a different consolidation area, another version combination, or another group currency:

  • Reported financial data (posting level 00)

  • Documents (posting levels 01, 02, 10, 12, 20, 22, and 30)

  • Additional financial data

Features

You use one of the options listed below depending on whether you want to copy data periodically or nonperiodically (that is, regularly or not):

Overview of Copying Options

Periodic/Nonperiodic

Customizing

Data Source/Data Target

Status of Source Data Is Taken into Account

Periodic

Copy method, assigned to a copy task

Copies within the same consolidation area, the same consolidation unit or combination of consolidation units, and the same posting period and fiscal year

Yes

Periodic

Copy method, assigned to a data collection method, which is assigned to a data collection task

Copies within the same consolidation area or from another consolidation area – if necessary, across consolidation units or combinations of consolidation units, posting periods, and fiscal years

No

Nonperiodic

Copy function

Copies within the same consolidation area

No
Copying to Another Group Currency

To copy to another group currency, in Customizing for the copy method or copy function, enter a currency translation method that is to use a rounding method.

When copying documents, the system translates currency according to the mapping before posting documents in the target data for each organizational unit and document type (see Automatic Data Collection of Documents). When posting documents that are posted at group level, the system generally assigns any differences in rounding in a summary to the consolidation unit (or combination of consolidation units). These differences are posted in the first line of the document.

For more information, see the "Copying to Another Group Currency" section in Copy Task or see Consolidation in Multiple Group Currencies.

Copying Documents in Consolidation of Investments

If, when documents are copied, there are differences between documents and totals records in the cumulative values in the target environment, the system posts the difference values in correction documents and adjusts the cumulative values in the documents to the cumulative values in the totals records.

If you have activated the business function Financials, Group Close, Restatement Monitor, the system posts these correction documents with consolidation of investments activity 84 (Correction During Copy) when consolidation of investment documents are copied.

Constraints

Cumulative Copying of Documents

When copying documents cumulatively (the Cumulative checkbox is selected), the copy function reads the source data for the current period from the documents data stream and the source data for previous periods in the same fiscal year from the totals records data stream. If you only use the copy function for the last period, the target data for the previous periods are only available as totals records. To fully map the documents from the previous periods in the target data, you must run the copy function individually for each consolidation period of the fiscal year in chronological order.

Handling Canceled and Inverted Documents

When copying documents, the copy function does not read any canceled or canceling documents.

Inverted and inverting documents are read and further processed in the same way as other documents. If a currency translation is to be carried out in the copy function, when dealing with inverted documents, the copy function uses the exchange rate from the period of the inverted document. This ensures that no currency translation differences are generated.

Fiscal Year Variant

The source and target of the copy function must use the same fiscal year variant.