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 Periodic Accrual Runs

Use

You carry out periodic accrual postings in an accrual run. This posts the accruals calculated for a specific key date and creates the corresponding document.

Caution Caution

You always have to start the accrual run manually for a specific key date.

End of the caution.

During an accrual run, the system performs the following steps:

  • It creates Accrual Engine documents

  • It transfers these Accrual Engine documents to Accounting

  • This leads to follow-up documents being created in Accounting

Prerequisites

You can influence how the Accrual Engine document is transferred to Accounting in a number of different ways.

  • Before the documents are transferred to Accounting , a temporary two-line Accounting document is created from the Accrual Engine document. You can summarize several of these two-line Accounting documents prior to transferring them. The summarization setting is in Customizing for Manual Accruals , under Start of the navigation path Accrual Posting Next navigation step Posting Control End of the navigation path .

  • You can change the Accounting document before or after summarization or add further document lines. Two Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are provided for this purpose. The settings are in Customizing for Manual Accruals , under Start of the navigation path Accrual Posting Next navigation step Document Change Using BAdI End of the navigation path .

Features

You can use the following functions to perform periodic accrual runs:

  • Carry Out Accrual Run

    You can start an accrual run. When you do this, the Accrual Engine documents are automatically transferred to Accounting .

  • Reverse Accrual Run

    You can reverse a completed accrual run together with its postings. However, you can only reverse accrual runs in their entirety.

  • Transfer Accrual Engine Documents Manually

    If the transfer of Accrual Engine documents to Accounting terminates because of errors, you can transfer the documents to Accounting manually.