Structure 

Business Partner

Use

The Structure tab page is used for entering and processing financial transactions.

The structural characteristics for the transactions of the various product types differ in the system, whereas the other data for the product category is the same and is represented in a standardized way.

By navigating between the Structure, Administration, Other flows, Payment details, Cash flow, Memos and Status tab pages, you can display the information for a transaction directly.

Activities

For more information, see the section on creating financial transactions.

For more detailed explanations on the individual fields, use the F1 and F4 help or see the following sections:

·        Money Market - Basic Data

·        Foreign Exchange - Basic Data

·        Derivatives - Basic Data

You can display the various detail views using the pushbuttons on the Structure tab page:

·        Choose  to branch to your worklist.

·        Choose  to branch to the correspondence overview for this transaction. This shows the correspondence generated for the transaction and the respective correspondence status.

·        Choose  to go to the master data for the business partner. You can display the data for counterparties and change or maintain their payment details. For more information, see Settlement.

·        By choosing  you can go to the Condition Details and display the information on the term.

·        Using the  pushbutton, you can expand the interest structure of the transaction and compress it again using the  pushbutton. This changes the screen layout in the Interest structure area accordingly.

·        Choose  to check that your entries for the transaction are complete. A message appears if certain settings have not yet been made.

·        Choose  to go to another transaction.

·        Choose  to save your entries.

Features

Transaction management includes entering and processing financial transactions for the following product categories:

·        Fixed-term deposits and deposits at notice

·        Commercial paper

·        Interest rate instruments

·        Cash flow transactions

·        Facilities

·        Spot exchange and forward exchange transactions

·        Interest rate derivatives

·        OTC options and listed options

·        Futures

·        Security orders

The screen contains various tab pages on which you define the transaction information. Depending your settings in Customizing for Basic Functions, when you choose Define Field Selection, you can, for example, display different tabs for orders or contracts.

However, you cannot suppress the display of the Structure tab page.