Blanket Asset Budgets for Asset Procurement 

Purpose

You can use statistical budget monitoring if you want to keep track of the cost accounting aspects of directly capitalized assets by using budget values, and assigned and commitment values. For this purpose, the Asset Accounting (FI-AA) component makes it possible to post asset acquisitions directly to assets, while it posts them automatically as statistics to an internal order or WBS element at the same time.

You enter this internal order or WBS element as investment account assignment in the asset master record under Origin data. The system then makes an automatic, statistical posting to this order or WBS element at the time of any asset transaction. Another option is to enter the additional account assignment directly in the posting transaction.

The budget profile of an order or WBS element can be used to specify that the system carries out an availability control against the budget of the order or WBS element when a transaction with additional account assignment is posted.

The system automatically creates a statistical commitment on the accompanying order or WBS element when you enter a purchase order for the asset. This commitment is automatically cleared when you post the goods receipt or invoice receipt.

Down payments and settlements from an order or WBS element to an asset cannot be included in automatic statistical posting.

Process Flow

You can find the data for this process under .

  1. First you create a purchase order that has account assignment to a new asset. For the purposes of budget monitoring, this asset is linked to the order for IT procurements.
  2. Make Account Assignment from Purchase Order to New Asset

  3. Look at the commitment on the investment program.
  4. Display Commitment in Investment Program

  5. Then post a goods receipt for the purchase order.
  6. Posting the Goods Receipt for the Purchase Order

  7. Look at the actual values on the order and on the investment program.

Display Actual Values on Order and Investment Program