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3252635 - Revenue Accounting Contract Field Missing in Sales Order

Symptom

You find that the Revenue Accounting Contract field is missing in Sales Order.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a New Sales Order
  2. Navigate to General tab, you can see "Revenue Accounting Contract" field 
  3. Maintain the necessary fields such as Account, Sales Unit, Employee Responsible, etc.
  4. You find that the Revenue Accounting Contract field is missing in Sales Order.

Cause

The Configuration settings of Revenue Recognition Accounting should be performed in the system as below:

1.Revenue Recognition scoped in your system.

To find this business option, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Edit Project Scope. In the Scoping step of the project, ensure that Sales and Profit Analysis is selected within Financial and Management Accounting > Management Accounting.

In the Questions step, expand the Financial and Management Accounting scoping element and select Management Accounting. Select Sales and Profit Analysis and answer Yes to the question Do you want to use solution-supported revenue recognition for sales orders?

2.Revenue Accounting Contracts scoped in your system.

To find this business option, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Edit Project Scope. In the Scoping step of the project, ensure that Sales and Profit Analysis is selected within Financial and Management Accounting  > Management Accounting.

In the Questions step, expand the Financial and Management Accounting scoping element and select Management Accounting. Select Sales and Profit Analysis and answer Yes to the question Do you want to enable Revenue Accounting Contracts?

3.Set of Books maintained.

To find this Fine-Tune Activity, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose the Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Open Activity List. Search and select the Set of Books Fine-Tune Activity. Select the Set of Books ID for which you want to assign Revenue Accounting Contract and click Edit.

In the Company Settings tab, select the Company ID and enable Use Revenue Accounting Contract to use revenue accounting contracts for the company.

However, in this case, NO company has been enabled as Use Revenue Accounting Contract.

Resolution

Open Set of Books Fine-Tune Activity, in the Company Settings tab, please select the Company ID and enable Use Revenue Accounting Contract to use revenue accounting contracts for the company.

Keywords

Revenue Accounting Contract, Sales Order, Set of Books, Company, Use Revenue Accounting Contract , KBA , SRD-CRM-ORD , Orders & Contracts , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions