SAP ABAP IMG Activity OVACT (Activate SD Functions)
Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       VF0C (Package) Customizing R/3 invoice
IMG Activity
ID OVACT Activate SD Functions  
Transaction Code S_EB5_05000135   (empty) 
Created on 20090218    
Customizing Attributes OVACT   Activate SD Functions 
Customizing Activity OVACT   Activate SD Functions 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_OVACT1    

Use

In this activity you can activate functions and make settings for controlling Sales and Distribution functions.

Revenue Recognition

  • You can use these settings to control revenue recognition in your company so that you can best fulfill the requirements stipulated by the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and US-GAAP (US General Accepted Accounting Principles).
  • The revenue recognition functions have a large impact on how revenues are deferred and posted. To ensure that the system is stable and is configured correctly, SAP offers a free service for checking your revenue recognition settings. For details about booking this service, see the SAP Note 820417.

Requirements

Standard settings

There is no additional authorization check in the standard system. As long as you do not create an implementation, every user who has authorization for changing Customizing settings can make settings for revenue recognition.

So that only a restricted user group can execute this activity, the BAdI for Activating Functions BADI_SD_FUNCTION_ACTIVATION runs authorization checks. That way you can prevent users from changing or adding activation information.

Activities

When you start the activity, you can activate the following functions:

  1. Decide if you want to enable Customizing for revenue recognition.
    • This setting influences the item category setting for the revenue recognition process.
    • This setting replaces using a SET/GET parameter. If it has already been activated using the parameter, the system automatically sets the activation indicator to active.

      For more information, see the documentation Enable Customizing for Revenue Recognition.

  2. Decide if you want the system to compress accounting documents that are created in revenue recognition. Compression takes place according to the summarization logic in Financial Accounting.

    Your financial accounting manager should approve the document compression and, if necessary, your external auditor should also check it.

    For more information, see the documentation Activate Revenue Compression.

  3. If you have activated a function, you can make additional settings in the next steps:

Example

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
VC_TVNFACT C - View cluster SM34  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20090728 
SAP Release Created in 605