Derivation Strategy for Reassignments with Closing Operations

Use

You can define carryforward parameters to control commitment carryforward and budget carryforward to the new fiscal year. In this way, you can make changes to your organizational structure, consider functional restructuring during year change operations, and exclude specific Funds Management (FM) account assignments from the carryforward. ( )

For example, you can stipulate that an account assignment change is permitted during the commitment carryforward of purchase orders but no account assignment changes are possible for invoices. For the budget carryforward, for example, you can define that the amount to be carried over should be divided up between different FM account assignments; it is even possible to include partial amounts in the budget carryforward.

If you do not define a derivation strategy for closing operations, the FM account assignments are applied unchanged for all permitted closing operations. You define which closing operations are executed with the fiscal year change in Customizing for Funds Management Government in the IMG activity Define Default Settings. You can use the program Monitor Closing Operations RFFMCFM1 to gain an overview of the current Customizing settings.

Integration

In addition to the closing operations commitment carryforward and budget carryforward, other closing operations are also required with the fiscal year change, such as copying the budget structure or budget versions. These functions also use the derivation strategy, provided that the derivation strategy for these closing operations is assigned to your FM area and fiscal year.

Features

The derivation strategy consists of a sequence of steps used to derive the values of the FM account assignments from other account assignments.

Each step describes how certain target fields can be filled with values from certain source fields. There are a number of derivation step types that you can use to map different types of logical dependency between source and target fields: derivation rule, access table, move, clear and enhance.

For more information on how to create a derivation strategy and on the functions used by the derivation strategy, see the IMG for Funds Management Government under Master Data Account Assignment Derivation for Reassignment Define Derivation Strategy for Reassignment and Assign Derivation Strategy to FM Area .

Reassignment When New General Ledger Accounting Is Active

If you have activated new General Ledger Accounting in your system, the reassignment of an invoice (value type 54) during a fiscal year change is controlled and supported differently in Funds Management, depending on how the FM account assignment that is to be reassigned is used in the new General Ledger Accounting (document splitting characteristic and/or update).

For example, if you update in new General Ledger Accounting an FM account assignment that is to be reassigned and you have defined it as a document splitting characteristic, you need to use the reorganization tool delivered in new General Ledger Accounting for reassignments with a change of fiscal year .

Generally speaking, it is also not possible to change the FI Entry View for an FM account assignment that is updated in new General Ledger Accounting. This means that the original invoice is never changed, but only the document splitting information. In addition, implementing the Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI for the Reassignment Tool (FMCH) with the method Force Reassignment of FI Original Documents (FMCH_BADI_2) causes an error message to appear because FI documents cannot be reassigned (message FMUP 120).

Note Note

Note that, if you update the payment and commitment budgets and reassign both separately, the original documents are adjusted when the first reassignment is called, that is, they are not connected to either the payment budget or the commitment budget.

End of the note.

For more information about reassignment with new General Ledger Accounting during a fiscal year change and about the various possible scenarios, see Reassignment with New General Ledger Accounting .