Planned Interest Calculation Period (SAP Library

Planned Interest Calculation Period

The duration of the interest run determines the period from which the system includes costs, revenues, and payments in the planned interest calculation.

The planned interest calculation takes place for either the whole project duration or for a more restricted period which you can enter in the initial screen. If you do not enter any restrictions, the system calculates the planned interest for the whole project duration. For performance reasons, you may choose to restrict the calculation for a period in which changes to the plan have taken place.

The planned interest calculation does not take account of changes which took place before or after the period entered.

To avoid errors, do not enter any restrictions in the first interest run.

The system determines the interest run duration for each balancing object .

If you do not specify a start date in the initial screen, the system calculates interest from the day the costs are incurred. If you do not specify a start date in the initial screen, the system calculates interest from:

The start date, if the costs were incurred before the start date

The date on which the costs are incurred, if this is after the start date

The system determines the end of the interest calculation per object, according to the following priority:

WBS elements

Scheduled finish
Basic finish date for the WBS element
Finish date from the initial screen

Header-assigned networks

Scheduled finish
Basic finish date from the network header
Finish date from the initial screen

Network activities

Scheduled finish
Finish date from the initial screen

CO internal orders

Planned completion date
Finish date from the initial screen

If the finish date specified in the initial screen is before the finish date determined by the system, the system calculates the interest up to the specified finish date.

For examples of how the interest period is calculated, see Calculating the Interest Period .