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2767819 - Revenue Recognition for a Contract Linked to a Multi-Customer Project

Symptom

You want do to undertake the Revenue Recognition for a contract but notice the run ends with no postings.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Cost and Revenue Workcentre.
  2. Select the Revenue Recognition View.
  3. Search and Open run ID XXX(XXX represents the ID of the Revenue Recognition run).
  4. Navigate to Postings tab.

Result: There are no journal entries created following the run.

Cause

The contract you are attempting to run revenue recognition on has a Multi-Customer Project assignment, Revenue Recognition is only possible on the Project and not on the individual sales item. This is why the accrual method assignment is also on Project level and not on sales item level in this case.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Cost and Revenue Workcentre.
  2. Select the Revenue Recognition view.
  3. Click on New and then Revenue Recognition Run.
  4. This time do not select Sales Object Type as Sales Documents but Multi-Customer Projects.
  5. Put the Project ID.
  6. Click on Start Now.

Result: This time the run will generate the postings.

Keywords

Contract revenue; Multi-Customer assignment , KBA , rev rec , SRD-FIN-COR , Cost & Revenue , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions