EA-FIN: Manual Accruals

The Manual Accruals are part of the Financials Extension (EA-FIN) business function.

Technical Data

Technical name of the business function	EA-FIN
Type of business function	Enterprise Extension
Documentation based on release	SAP ERP 6.0
SAP software component	EA-APPL
SAP application component	FI-GL-GL-AAC
Business Intelligence content	SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 3
Additional content available in other SAP applications	Not relevant
Business function requiring activation in addition	Not relevant

Use

You use Manual Accruals to automatically calculate and post accruals in General Ledger Accounting. You can also vary the accrued amounts for the various periods involved. For example, you can use manual accruals for license fees, rent payments, or rent income.

Integration

This function is based on the Accrual Engine .

Prerequisites

Before you can implement Manual Accruals , you have to make extensive Customizing settings for General Ledger Accounting.

You have activated the EA-FIN business function.

Moreover, you have made the Customizing settings for Manual Accruals in the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Start of the navigation path Financial Accounting Next navigation step General Ledger Accounting Manual Accruals End of the navigation path .

Features

Accruals can be calculated and posted in accordance with any number of accounting principles (parallel accounting).

You can enter your own calculation methods for the accruals.

You enter the data once for a business transaction for which you need to create accruals. On the basis of this data, the system calculates the amounts to be accrued. You can also simulate these amounts. In each period, you can start an accrual run, which posts all accruals for the various business transactions.

Manual Accruals is integrated with a reporting tool connected to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI).