If it has been defined in Customizing that all fiscal year change operations may be executed for Funds Management, then the commitments and residual budgets are carried forward 1:1 when starting the programs which execute the operations. The total amount of a Funds Management account assignment (100 %) is carried forward to the same account assignment of the new year.

The definition of carryforward parameters allows you to selectively control the commitments carryforward and budget carryforward in the new fiscal year. In doing so, you can consider changes in your organizational structure and consider functional restructuring during year change operations. On the other hand, you can completely exclude certain value types or FM account assignments from the carryforward.

For example, you are able to control that an account assignment change is allowed during the commitments carryforward of purchase orders, whereas no account assignment changes are possible in invoices. For instance for the budget carryforward you can define that a sorting of the carryforward amount to different FM account assignments is allowed.

Carryforward parameters form the basis for defining special carryforward rules for individual FM account assignments. In carryforward parameters you always define the criteria according to which the special rules can be defined.

You define carryforward rules for a respective fiscal year. A carryforward rule therefore includes the concrete attribute of a carryforward parameter for individual FM account assignments; as a rule, the relationship of a sending and receiving element (if desired several elements) is described. In addition, whether amounts are completely, partially or not carried forward at all is defined.

The carryforward type specifies the quality of a carryforward parameter and defines which criteria the carryforward rules must fulfill for individual FM account assignments. The following carryforward types are available:

If you want to carry forward the commitments and the residual budgets 1:1 into the new fiscal year, you just have to maintain the default settings for the fiscal year change operations in the Funds Management Customizing. For more information see the Funds Management Government IMG in section Enter default settings.

You only need carryforward parameters if you want to target the commitments carryforward and the budget carryforward with carryforward rules for individual FM account assignments. You only have to create carryforward parameters in Customizing of Funds Management in this case. You can find more information in the IMG in section Define Carryforward Parameters.

You must subsequently assign the carryforward parameters to the value types for your FM area and a fiscal year for controlling the commitments carryforward in the Funds Management Government Customizing. Using this, a carryforward parameter can be assigned to several value types.

You have to define the carryforward parameters for controlling the budget carryforward in the settings for the carryforward of residual budgets.