Funds Commitments (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Projects)
Use
You can use the funds commitment function to enter expected costs or revenues at times when you know that they will arise, but do not know what will cause them. This means you can reserve parts of the budget in advance.
You can assign funds commitments to internal orders, cost centers, or projects.
Integration
Funds commitments assigned to WBS elements, networks, or internal orders are subject to active budget availability control. The funds commitment checks whether the available budget is still sufficient. Account is taken of tolerance limits defined above and below the budget.
For more information, read
Availability Control .
The funds commitment appears as a commitment in the information system for the account assignment object. For more information, see
CO Commitment Management .
You can archive the funds commitment documents. See
CA - Archiving Application Data.for details.
Prerequisites
To process funds commitments, you need the appropriate authorization from authorization object K_KMOB_DCT for each document type.
Features
Funds commitments involve the following individual activities:
You enter the funds commitment as a funds earmarking document. The reservation document contains the following:
You can change the existing funds commitment amount and add more items to the funds commitment.
When you reduce the funds commitment manually, you enter the reduction amount for a funds commitment item. You determine the reduction amount based on the amount still open. This is calculated by determining the difference between the funds commitment amount and the total of the partial amounts already reduced. You may not reduce the commitment by more than the amount still open.
You can reduce the items in one funds commitment by specifying the number of the relevant document.
You can select the funds commitment items you want to reduce from a list.
In the reduction history, you can specify reduction references to an existing commitment reduction (a document, such as an order or purchase order, which has brought about costs or will bring them about).
You can cancel individual reduction postings. Select the relevant reduction document and choose Cancel. The document is then flagged as cancelled in the CAN column.