Example

You are manager of the “After Sales Services” area, and want to plan the revenues to be generated by the sale of spare parts in the coming fiscal year. To do this, you start the query and specify in the selection screen for the following selection criteria the values for which you want to plan revenues:

Once you have confirmed the selection criteria, the system displays a table with columns for the profit centers (your profit center), the general ledger accounts (cost elements), the actual values of the previous fiscal year, the planned values of the coming fiscal year, and a difference column. There is a column in the query for periods 1 - 12 for the year selected for both actual and planned values. The fields in the plan columns are ready for input You can enter there your planned revenues in the rows for the corresponding G/L account.