SAP ABAP Data Element CHNG_SIGN (Reverse +/- sign)
Hierarchy
☛ IS-UT (Software Component) SAP Utilities/Telecommunication
   ⤷ IS-U (Application Component) SAP Utilities
     ⤷ EE00 (Package) IS-U: General (Domains and General Objects)
Basic Data
Data Element CHNG_SIGN
Short Description Reverse +/- sign  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type KENNZX    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Rev. +/- 
Medium 15 Reverse +/- 
Long 19 Reverse +/- sign 
Heading 1 S 
Documentation

Definition

You can set this indicator in the rate steps for which the variant programs generate billing line items relevant to posting. If the indicator is set, the +/- sign of the amount in the billing line item is reversed. A receivable becomes a credit memo, and a credit memo becomes a receivable.

Example

  1. You wish to bill small power producers from whom you purchase electricity. For this purpose, you create a register rate. The register rate contains a step that valuates the consumption with a price by means of the register operand. You set the Reverse +/- sign indicator for this step. If the meter reading difference and the price amount are positive values, the rate step then generates a billing line item with a negative amount; in other words, it creates a credit memo.
  2. You are calculating a difference consumption in a rate. If this difference is a positive value, the customer is to receive a credit memo, and if it is a negative value, the customer is to pay a receivable.

    For this purpose, you insert a step in the rate that valuates the difference consumption with a price and writes a billing line item on the basis of the result. In this step you set the Reverse +/- sign indicator.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050224 
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