The user can use preliminary postings to enter and store incomplete documents in the system. Preliminary postings do not update any data in the system, such as amounts. The two types of preliminary postings are:
- Parked Document
- Hold Document
FI/CO
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Preliminary Postings in SAP
Changing Asset Management Fiscal Year
A change in the asset management fiscal year is required to open asset postings for the new year. Therefore, this transaction is an integral part of the Year-end Close procedure in asset management. The program prepares the database to accept records for the new year.
From the point of view of the system, a fiscal year change is the opening of a new fiscal year for a company code. At the fiscal year change, the asset values from the previous fiscal year are carried forward cumulatively into the new fiscal year. Once the fiscal year change takes place, you can post to assets using value dates in the new fiscal year. At the same time, you can continue to post in the previous fiscal year.
A Complete SAP FICO User Guide
This is a comprehensive FI/CO User Guide which you will also find detailed step by step procedures for the topics of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank & Cash Transactions, Fixed Assets, Country India Version ( TDS , Service Tax , Excise, Sales Tax ), MM Integration, SD Integration, Reversals & Editing Documents, Reports & Balances, Dunning Process, Controlling & Costing, Month End Activities, Year End Activities, Planning, Travel Management, Investment Accounting, Tips for Effective Usage of SAP and so on..
Purpose of Defining Internal Orders
An example would help us understand this much better.
Lets say in an organization there are various events such as trade fairs, training seminars, which occur during the year. Now lets assume for a second that these Trade fairs are organized by the Marketing cost center of the organization. Therefore in this case marketing cost center is responsible for all the trade fairs costs. All these trade fairs costs are posted to the marketing cost centers. Now if the management wants an analysis of the cost incurred for each of the trade fair organized by the marketing cost center how would the marketing manager get this piece of information across to them? The cost center report would not give this piece of info
Segments and Cycles
A ‘Segment’ is one processing unit required to complete an automated allocation of distribution or assessment or reposting of planned/actual costs in controlling in SAP. A segment is made up of (a) allocation characteristics—to identify the sender/receiver, (b) values of the sender—plan/actual, type of costs to be allocated, and (c) values of the receiver—the basis for allocation, for example, the tracing factor such as SKF, percentages, etc.