Changing Conditions 

 

Prerequisites

You can enter Customizing settings to determine whether retroactive condition changes are allowed or not, by choosing Master Data ®Conditions ®Define Basic Settings for Conditions. If you allow retroactive condition changes, then you can also define the number of periods to which these changes may apply. You can decide whether the retroactive condition changes are to also apply to a fiscal year that has already been closed.

Retroactive condition changes not allowed

If retroactive condition changes are not allowed, you can make a retroactive change to a condition (header and position) only if this condition has not been used to balance an account, or if the condition has not yet been used in payment transactions.

You have the following options:

·        You can specify a new validity period for the condition header data. This option is only possible if you have activated time-dependency of the conditions in Customizing. If this is not the case, you need to create a new condition.

·        To change the condition item data you must create a new item with a current validity date and changed values.

To change a single condition item of a scaled condition or insert an additional level from a certain date, you need to create the entire scale with a new date.

Retroactive condition changes allowed

If retroactive condition changes are allowed, you can change standard or individual conditions that have already been used in account balancing. There are, however, two restrictions: The Valid From date and the interest calculation method cannot be changed retroactively.

Once you have changed standard conditions, you need to find the affected accounts, by choosing Retroactive Change to Standard Condition ®Find Affected Accounts.

During the next balancing, the system runs retroactive accounting for all the accounts found from the relevant date onwards.

Change History

To see a history of all changes that affect conditions (such as creations, deletions, or field changes), choose Goto ®Condition History.

To display a list suitable for auditing, choose Information System ®Condition History.