Choose Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Special Purpose Ledger ® Periodic Processing ® Allocation and then chose Actual/Plan Assessment or Actual/Plan Distribution ® Create.

1. Enter the Ledger and the relevant Parameters.

1. Set the Background processing indicator if you want to execute the allocation in background processing. For more information, see Defining an Allocation Job for Background Processing.
2. Set the Test run indicator if you want to test the allocation.



The allocation does not update the database.

3. Set the Detailed lists indicator if you want to display a list of assessed/distributed records after the allocation is executed.

• In addition, there are three detail lists that you can select. For more information, see Displaying Sender Lists, Displaying Receiver Lists, and Displaying Journals. You choose the list you require by selecting the appropriate indicator.

3. Enter relevant data for Cycle and Start date of the allocation, or choose input help. You can execute more than one cycle per execution.



The order you execute the cycles impacts how the data is allocated.



Receivers of allocation cycle 1 are cost centers 200 and 300. Receivers of allocation cycle 3 are cost centers 300, 400, and 500. The allocation cycle 3 uses the results of allocation cycle 1 if a group of cycles is executed.



If you are executing a cycle that has the same name as another allocation cycle, the system displays all allocation cycles that have the same name, with the cycle starting dates.

4. You can determine how the system is to react when it encounters errors during execution by choosing Settings.
5. You can save the entries you make on the initial screen as a variant. To do so, choose Extras ® Variant ® Save and enter a name and a short text for the variant.

To execute a particular variant, choose Extras ® Variant ® Get.

6. Choose . The system displays the FI-SL: Display <Allocation Type> Special Purpose Ledger Basic List screen. You can display all relevant information here.