Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Fund Commitments, FICA

Technical Data
Technical name of Business Function	FICA_EF
Type of Business Function	Industry Business Function
Available as of	SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	FI-CA
Software Component	SAP_APPL FI-CA
Application Component	FI-CA
Directly dependent business function that you have to activate additionally	Business function FICA_EF and the business function set PUBLIC_SERVICES (Industry Extension Public Sector) Note If you want to post earmarked funds with reference to Funds Management account assignments, the business function FICA_FM must also be active. End of the note.

You use this business function to integrate Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable with the earmarked funds function in Public Sector Management.

The business function FICA_EF is a prerequisite for the Public Sector scenario Grantor Management.

Prerequisites

You plan budget on the basis of Funds Management account assignments or controlling account assignments.

Features

The business function allows you to use earmarked funds from Public Sector Management (PSM-FM-PO-EF) in integration with Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA).

This enables you to reserve budget for expenditure processe and perform an active availability check on the basis of existing earmaked funds.