FM Account Assignment Logic 
FM Account Assignment Logic
Use
For data to be recorded in Funds Management (FM), you must, when posting data in other components, always enter a complete FM account assignment (combination of funds center, commitment item, and, if required, fund). The commitment item must have
financial transaction 30.To keep data input work to a minimum, you can create connections between basic data within FM and between the basic data in FM and the basic data in other applications.
In line with these connections, the system can, when you make postings, automatically derive the complete FM account assignment from the individual FM account assignment objects, or from the account assignment objects in other components. There is no need for you to enter the account assignment objects, funds center, commitment item and fund manually. The system determines the FM account assignment according to a particular sequence.
Viewed from the other components, the individual account assignment objects are regarded as additional account assignments. The following additional account assignments exist for FM in postings made in other components:
Prerequisites
You can make the following connections:
Note that the additional account assignments will only accept input if you mark the relevant fields as required or optional entries. You make the settings at various points in the IMGs for the relevant components. For more information, read
Customizing Field Status.Features
Which connection has priority when the FM account assignment is automatically adopted?
The principle is for postings to be made to the objects you have entered manually. If you do not make any manual entries, the system uses the sequence shown below to check whether any assignments exist. It makes the posting to the first object it finds.
Commitment item
Funds Center
Fund
If you defined a fund in the funds center master record, the fund from the funds center is posted to even if you do not specify a fund when posting.
When posting an invoice with reference to earmarked funds, the system uses the FM account assignment from the earmarked funds. You can only overwrite this account assignment manually if you set the Account assignment changeable indicator in the earmarked funds.
Activities
Account assignment logic: How can you influence the account assignment logic?
In the customizing of funds management, you can influence the standard account assignment logic in the step
Make other settings. You can stipulate that:
The system always derives the commitment item from the G/L account The CO assignments are ignored.
The system then always derives the FM account assignment from its assignment to the CO account assignment. Other assignments are ignored.
Regardless of which settings you choose, the effect is as follows:
However, you can enter an FM account assignment manually if the system cannot determine one.
An exception to this is the purchase order. Where a posting references a purchase order, the account assignment is always taken over from the purchase order.
If you are working with the standard account assignment logic, you can use appropriate system messages to prevent manual input of assignments already made. For further information on message, see
Change message control in the basic settings section of the Funds Management IMG.
You can implement an alternative control regime for automatic derivation of the FM account assignment by means of enhancement SAPLFMCH (component EXIT_SAPLFMCH_001, development class FMFS) and enhancement SAPLFMWR (component EXIT_SAPLFMWR_002, development class FMFS).
See also:
Business Objects: Commitment Items Business Objects: Funds Center Defining Account Assignment Items in G/L Accounts Integration with Cost and Project Controlling