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2067490 - Revenue Recognition run Ignores Sales Document Item's Accrual Method and Clears all Deferrals/Accruals

Symptom

  • According to its accrual method, there should be no values posted by the revenue recognition run for sales order item ABC-AA  (ABC-AA represents a sales order item ID), for example: 
    • there is manual revenue recognition data maintained for the item, to not recognize the full sales order item net value. 
    • Or, accrual method 'Recognize at point of invoice' is assigned to sales order item ABC-AA. The item is not invoiced, but all expenses are realised by the revenue recognition run. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Cost and Revenue work center.
  2. Go to the Sales Document Items view.
  3. Find Sales Order item ABC-AA.
  4. According to its accrual method and possibly manually, maintained values, the revenue recognition run should not realise any values for the sales order item. 
  5. Execute a Revenue Recognition Run for the choosen accounting period.
  6. The system ignores the item's accrual method and clears all its deferrals and accruals. 

Cause

Sales Order Item is already completed: The Final Delivery and Invoice Date is set (Check the Data tab in the Sales Document Items view of the Cost and Revenue work center). The items is either fully invoiced and delivered or it got cancelled in the meantime; Whenever a sales document item is completed, then no further transactions are expected for the item, so that any deferred or accured values must be cleared by the revenue recognition run.

Resolution

The system works as designed. Any deferrals or accruals must be cleared after the final delivery or invoice date is set for a sales document item.

Keywords

Sales Documet Item, 8 - Recognize based on manual amounts, Revenue Recognition, Values, , KBA , SRD-FIN-COR , Cost & Revenue , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions