Limits for Elimination Differences
Use
When you perform interunit (IU) eliminations, you may want to prevent the system from posting the elimination entry if the elimination differences are too high.
For this purpose, you can specify limits for elimination differences in Customizing. You can define limits:
per currency key and/or
per unit of measure
Prerequisites
You have defined a limit for interunit eliminations in Customizing of interunit eliminations.
You have also defined how the limits are to be checked:
per business relationship (that is, per method step) or
per difference line
(See the example later on.)
Features
If an elimination difference exceeds the limit, the system merely generates a message and suggests a journal entry – the document is not posted.
You can then examine the elimination differences that exceed the limit and post any necessary adjustments. If you regard the elimination difference as being valid and you want to post the difference, first you must deactivate the indicator for using limits in Customizing.
Note
If you have a consolidation group hierarchy and you execute the task in the consolidation monitor for interunit elimination for the top consolidation group, the system checks the lower-level consolidation groups one step at a time. If a lower-level consolidation group does not exceed a limit, it receives the status
no errors, no warnings
.
Example
Say, the following reported financial data is being processed: Receivables and payables along with the differential items have a breakdown by the subassignment
due date
.
The elimination uses the default for the due date.
The limit is 380 monetary units.
Cons Unit |
Item |
Partner Unit |
Due Date |
Posting Level |
Monetary Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
Receivables |
B |
1 |
00 |
100 |
A |
Receivables |
B |
2 |
00 |
50- |
B |
Payables |
A |
1 |
00 |
500- |
Line item |
Cons Unit |
Item |
Partner Unit |
Due Date |
Posting Level |
Monetary Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
A |
Receivables |
B |
1 |
20 |
100- |
2 |
B |
Payables |
A |
1 |
20 |
500 |
3 |
A |
Differential item |
B |
1 |
20 |
400- |
4 |
A |
Receivables |
B |
2 |
20 |
50- |
5 |
A |
Differential item |
B |
2 |
20 |
50 |
Line item |
Case 1: Limit is checked per differential line item |
Case 2: Limit is checked per method step |
|---|---|---|
1 |
Difference = 400 -; i.e., limit amount exceeded |
Difference = 400 - |
2 |
||
3 |
||
4 |
Difference = 50 ; i.e., limit amount not exceeded |
Difference = 50 |
5 |
||
Total difference |
350- |
|
Result |
|
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