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Function documentationStarting the Accrual Calculation in SAP NetWeaver BI

 

During the campaign execution and scenario planning you want to calculate the accruals for your campaigns regularly so that, if necessary, you can correct your planning figures.

At the end of the campaign, you can also carry out a final accrual calculation, the result of which can then be passed on to the financial accounting department.

Prerequisites

You have defined a calculation model for your accruals.

Features

The accrual calculation is triggered in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) in the Accrual Modeling Workbench (transaction rsmrm_accr). You can choose different start conditions:

  • Selection of calculation period

    The accruals calculated are stored under the accrual model name and the calculation period so that the calculations carried out in a certain period are also available in later periods. Make sure that the data used for the accrual correction is always determined from the calculation period immediately before the specified calculation period. If no data is available in the previous period, a warning appears. However, the calculation can still be carried out. With the options Use current period and Use previous period, the calculation period is determined from the system date.

  • Final calculation indicator

    As long as the calculations for a calculation period are preliminary, you should not select this option. In this case, any results from previous preliminary calculations in this calculation period are overwritten.

    If the calculation is intended to be final for this calculation period, select this indicator. This means that any existing preliminary calculations are overwritten. Only one final calculation takes place per calculation month.

    If you need to repeat a final calculation for some reason, you must delete the previous results.

    Note Note

    Preliminary calculations are stored in the data store object with the calculation type P, final calculations with type F. Data of type F and type P never occurs simultaneously within a calculation period.

    If necessary, only the final figures can be shown by performing appropriate filtering in reporting.

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  • Check whether campaigns are part of scenario indicator

    If this indicator is initially selected, the system automatically checks whether all marketing projects occurring in the planning data read are used in at least one scenario in SAP CRM. If this is not the case, warnings are issued in the run log.

You can start the finance-oriented accrual calculation in SAP NetWeaver BI by choosing Execute Financial Calculation. You can start the scenario-oriented accrual calculation in SAP CRM. For more information, see Accrual Calculation.