Symptom
The Profit Detail by Contribution Margin Scheme report or Profit Overview by Key Figure report doesn't display any data although there are financial postings relevant for selection parameters.
Executing the profitability report returns message: No report data available to display; check the selection
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Cost and Revenue work center.
- Go to the Reports view, List subview.
- Select the report Profit Detail by Contribution Margin Scheme or Profit Overview by Key Figure.
- Enter the selection parameters, Enter profit type as: 1 (Order profit) or 2 (Invoice Profit).
- Click Go.
- You get an information message that: No report data available to display; check selection.
Cause
The contribution margin scheme maintained in the Set of books specifies the structure of the Profit Detail by Contribution Margin Scheme report. SAP delivers templates for contribution margin schemes (structure type Income Statement by Function of Expense) as financial reporting structures for every template chart of accounts. You can copy a template and adapt it to your needs or create a contribution margin scheme from scratch. In the customized reporting structure, you have not Assigned the price components to the reporting structure nodes. This assignment of price components is required to display Order/Invoice profit.
Resolution
In order to see the appropriate data for profit type: Order profit or Invoice profit, you will need to assign prices component by following below steps:
- Go to the Business configuration work center.
- Select the Implementation Projects view.
- Select Project and click Open Activity List.
- Go to the Fine Tune tab.
- Search for the activity Settings for Income Statements by Function of Expense and Earned Profit Analysis.
- Click Edit.
- Click Edit financial reporting structures.
- Select the reporting structure and click Edit.
- Select the item.
- Click Action and select assign price components.
- Select the Price component(s).
- Click Save.
See Also
2052832 - No Data Displayed in the Profitability Reports
Help Center document: Edit Financial Reporting Structures
Keywords
profit; Contribution Margin Scheme; report , KBA , SRD-FIN-COR , Cost & Revenue , How To