Planning Levels (SAP Library - Cash Management (TR-CM))

Planning Levels

Use

Detailing by planning level provides information on the causes of bank or account transactions for bank accounts and planning groups. For example, you can identify how a piece of information came into the system (posting or payment advices/plan item) and how probable it is that a cash inflow or outflow will take place on the day planned. .

Typical planning levels include outgoing checks, outgoing bank transfers, check receipts, FI postings, purchase orders, orders, and confirmed or unconfirmed payment advices. For structuring purposes, planning levels are divided by where they came from, and assigned to either the cash position or liquidity forecast.

The table below gives a summary of planning sources that affect the liquidity analyses.

Cash Position	Liquidity Forecast
Bank balances	Receivables as expected incoming payments
Checks posted to the bank clearing account	Payables as expected outgoing payments
Outgoing bank transfer posted to the bank clearing account	Planned wage and salary payments for an as yet unspecified account
Maturing deposits and loans	Planned VAT payments for an as yet unspecified account

Prerequisites

You assign levels by defining groupings. See the following units in the IMG:

G/L accounts:

Define Planning Levels

Subledger accounts:

Define Planning Levels

Define planning groups

Features

Cash Position Example

You are informed that amounts in the accounts at BANK A are comprised of confirmed payment advices, checks received, and bank postings . The bank posting level shows a balance of $50,000. By branching to the accounts, you can determine that $40,000 can be explained by the balance in Account 1 and the remaining $10,000 is the balance in Account 2. If you want to know more about the balance in Account 1, you can call up a line item display .

Activities

From the summarized display, you can view all the financial movements relating to a transaction. To do this, position the cursor on the relevant line and double click on levels, accounts, and line item displays until you reach the FI line item.

Alternatively, use the pushbuttons to jump to the desired accounts/groups.

The overall balance at a bank is classified by:

Groups (= accounts) in which postings were made The accounts are displayed in a list showing their cash management account names.
Levels (= cause) of a bank/account movement.

In addition, you can from the levels where (that is, in which accounts) the balances have arisen.

Cash management account names enable you to give accounts readily identifiable names, rather than just using the technical account numbers.