Symptom
When you revalue service contract item, you found in the simulation result that for some periods, the revenue is doubled comparing with other periods.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Cause
The start date of the service contract is in the middle of the period. The revenue recognition for the double amount period recognized twice when billing plan is located in the same period. The first time is for the billing amount before the billing plan, and the second time is for the billing amount after the billing plan.
Example:
The project starts from 2024.01.10 and ends on 2025.01.09.
The billing plan is set by quarter. The billing dates and amounts:
2024.04.09 400 EUR
2024.07.09 400 EUR
2024.10.09 400 EUR
2025.01.09 400 EUR
The revenue is recognized periodically.
The amount recognized will be:
2024.01 100 EUR
2024.02 100 EUR
2024.03 100 EUR
2024.04 100 EUR(for the first billing date 04.09)
2024.04 100 EUR(for the second billing date 07.09)
2024.05 100 EUR
2024.06 100 EUR
2024.07 100 EUR(for the second billing date 07.09)
2024.07 100 EUR(for the third billing date 10.09)
2024.08 100 EUR
2024.09 100 EUR
2024.10 100 EUR(for the third billing date 10.09)
2024.10 100 EUR(for the forth billing date 01.09)
2024.11 100 EUR
2024.12 100 EUR
2025.01 100 EUR
Total amount is 1600 EUR.
Resolution
It is according to standard design.
Keywords
CCS, service contract, revenue, double, amount. , KBA , CO-PC-OBJ-EBR-2CL , Event-Based Revenue Recognition (Public Cloud) , Problem