With this component you can map the requirements for government accounting (fiscal) when posting business transactions, and you can use the standard functions of Financial Accounting (FI) at the same time . This is possible because, from the technical point of view, the request is simply a user interface relating to Funds Management (FM), which displays a combined, fiscal view of several FI documents. The user makes postings to an FM account assignment, rather than to a G/L account. The latter is the usual practice for document entry in business accounting. The program automatically generates parked FI documents in the background. The program derives the required FI data (for example, the G/L account or the posting key) from the FM account assignment of the request.

Since the request is based on the document parking, the document entry can be interrupted at any stage. This makes it possible to map a large number of internal workflows. You can enter requests with an uncleared balance, or you can set up the system so that requests are only saved if they are consistent.

During system installation, every employee is assigned certain authorizations that are necessary for the individual processing steps of a request. This ensures the separation of request and execution.

Using the SAP Business Workflow, you can control the approval process for requests. Using automated workflow control in the R/3 system, you can map a multi-level approval, for example the "six eyes principle".

You install these components if the organization’s accounting must meet the requirements of local authorities.

You define the extent to which you want to use the request functions in Customizing for the Funds Management component, in the section Requests under Maintain Global Settings.

Once requests show the processing status complete, they participate in the active availability control and are updated. Updating means that existing funds commitments are reduced and the budget is debited.

This component allows the display of a large number of business transactions in the R/3 system:

With each transaction you can generate both single and collective requests. Single requests contain just one FI document, whereas collective requests can contain any number of FI documents. The common request number guarantees that the grouped-together FI documents show a common document, posting and conversion date, as well as identical document currencies and exchange dates.

In Customizing for the Funds Management Local Government component, you can enter that assignment of the request number is not done automatically, but takes place at a later point in time. This makes sense if you want to transfer requests from previous procedures.

You can use payment or acceptance requests to map business transactions that lead to payments . There are special request categories for deductions of payment or acceptance requests

Clearing requests can be used for different types of clearings. Clearing involves an update between a revenue and an expenditure commitment item, without changing the amount of the cash balance. The deduction of a clearing request is entered as a clearing request with the indicator sign change.

The general payment request is entered in the R/3 System as a funds commitment (expenditure side), or as estimated revenue (revenue side) with the special document type "General Request".

Deferral, temporary waiver or remission of receivables are mapped using customer-defined request categories. You can choose whether you want the calculation of deferral interest to be executed on a daily, monthly or yearly basis. You can calculate the interest on the basis of the amount currently due, or you can round up or round off the amount. You can also enter a minimum amount for the calculated deferral interest. Deferral interest will be charged only on the basis of this amount.

Standing requests can be entered for both payment and acceptance requests. They are a work-saving method of representing accounting transactions for payments of an identical amount, but which are due at different times.

You can use the remainder cleanup to post expected receivable losses separately at the end of the year, and to identify them separately at fiscal year change or in the information system.