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 Master Settlement Units

Definition

Master Settlement Unit

Use

A supplier may issue one joint invoice covering different service charges that affect different settlement units without displaying the costs individually, such as for hot water and heating charges.

You can collect (post) these costs on a master settlement unit (master SU) and specify the calculation bases according to which the costs are predistributed to the respective settlement units in the R/3 System.

According to the calculation bases, the service charge settlement posts the costs to the participating settlement units and allocates these proportionately.

This provides transparency of costs down to the level of the individual settlement units.

Structure

The master SU defines:

  • The settlement units to which the costs are predistributed

  • The calculation basis according to which the costs are distributed

Calculation basis

There are three methods of predistributing costs:

Apportionment factor

Equivalence number

Formula for calculating water consumption

You can enter an apportionment unit for distributing the costs to the individual SUs.

To do so, you must have assigned an apportionment factor for the rental units or lease-outs to the SUs

For each settlement unit, you can specify an equivalence number in a unit of measurement of your choice for distributing the costs proportionately to the respective SUs.

You can also specify that the total of the equivalence numbers is greater than or equal to the total of the actual equivalence numbers. The remaining share calculated in this way is posted to an object determined in the master SU (business entity, property, building, rental unit, lease-out, cost center, internal order).

Only used for calculating the share of hot water consumption according to German heating expenses regulations:

  • Calculation of fuel consumption:HW% = B / Wwhere W = TotCons / HV and B = (2,5 * C * (TW - 10)) / HV

  • Calculation of heat consumed:HW% = Q / TotConswhere Q = 2,0 * C * (TW - 10)

  • Fixed flat rate for hot water consumption

C = measured volume of consumed hot water in m3

TW = measured or average temperature of hot water

HV = heating value of the consumed fuel in kilowatt hours per liter or other unit

B = fuel consumption according to unit of measurement used for HV

TotCons = total consumption of heating units as entry value

W = total heat consumption to be determined

Q = heat consumption for hot water consumption

You can enter the percentage rate manually instead of automatically calculating it using the above formula.