2854491 - For Customer Contract Item the Revenue is Calculated For 13 Periods

You created a contract with validity for 12 periods/months.

You notice that the revenue is calculated for 13 periods instead of the expected 12 periods.

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1. Go to the Cost and Revenue work center.
2. Go to the Sales Document Items view.
3. Search and select the Customer Contract Item ABC (ABC is the customer contract item ID).
4. Navigate to the General tab.
5. The company is DEF (DEF is the company ID).
6. Order Quantity is 12 months.
7. Navigate to the Accounting Data tab.
8. The Revenue Type is 5 - Customer Contracts (Fixed Price) and Accrual Method is 303 - Straight-line – even periods.
9. Under Revenues per Period in default Set of Books, you see that the calculated revenue is shown from Accounting Period 0MM/YYYY to 0MM/YYYY+1 (0MM is the month/period and YYYY is the year).
10. This is a total of 13 periods instead of expected 12 periods.
11. Click View, then View All.
12. Contract Start Date: First day of month MM and year YYYY.
13. Contract End Date: Last day of month MM-1 and year YYYY+1.

The fiscal year variant maintained deviates from the standard fiscal year with 12 months, starting January 1st and ending December 31st.

You can check this as follows:

1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to the Sets of Books and Assigned Companies subview in the Master Data view.
3. Filter for Company DEF.
4. Select the relevant Set of Book.

The Fiscal Year Variant is HIJ (HIJ is the fiscal year variant name).

5. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
6. Go to the Overview view.
7. Search for the Other Fiscal Year activity and select it.
8. Click Change Immediately.
9. Select the Fiscal Year Variant HIJ.
10. Navigate to the Period Details tab.
11. Filter for Fiscal Year YYYY.

(Please note that the year, accounting period and dates are for reference purposes only.)

The periods start and end deviates from the calendar months.

System is behaving as expected.

Configuration: Other Fiscal Year (Fiscal Year Variant)

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