Hierarchy
EA-FIN (Software Component) EA-FIN⤷
FI (Application Component) Financial Accounting⤷
FERC (Package) IS-U/FERC: Regulatory Reporting
Basic Data
| Data Element | FE_CLRG_NEG |
| Short Description | Maximal negative percentage per clearing category |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | INT2_NOS | |
| Data Type | INT2 | 2-byte integer, only for length field before LCHR or LRAW |
| Length | 5 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 5 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | MaxNegPerc |
| Medium | 15 | Max. neg. perc. |
| Long | 24 | Max. negative percentage |
| Heading | 3 | MNP |
Documentation
Definition
The more categories you split your clearing group into, the greater the likelihood that one of those categories may have a negative balance. As a side effect this negative balance can push the percentage for one or more of categories with a positive balance to more than 100%.
The value of this parameter controls when to receive either a warning or error message.
- Clearing category with negative balance
An error message will be triggered during the flow of cost trace analysis if the negative percentage for any clearing category is exceeding the value of this parameter. You receive a warning message for negative percentages smaller or equal to this tolerance level. If you leave the parameter empty then no negative percentage would be allowed at all.
- Clearing category with positive balance
An error message will be triggered during the flow of cost trace analysis if the positive percentage for any clearing category is exceeding 100% plus the value of this parameter. You receive a warning message for positive percentages smaller than this tolerance level but higher than 100%. If you leave the parameter empty then no positive percentages higher than 100% would be allowed at all.
Example
Maybe the clearing group of Fleet cost centers got overcharged for fuel for the first 11 months of the year, and a large credit adjustment was made in December. This credit adjustment may get categorized as Fleet Materials, and throw the balance of Fleet Materials into the negative range.
In principle there is no problem in calculating negative percentages in this case as long as they are relative small. To follow the example further, a $1000 Fleet charge in December may result in the following clearing amounts and percentages in a non-clearing cost center:
Clearing category Amount Percentage
Fleet Miscellaneous $50 5
Fleet Labor $900 90
Fleet Benefits $100 10
Fleet Payroll Tax $150 15
Fleet Materials $200- 20-
Total $1000 100
The numbers may look a little strange, but all $1000 does get cleared out, as do all of the categories within Fleet. Moreover, the over allocation of Materials in the earlier months has been adjusted in December, resulting in a more accurate distribution of Fleet Expenses to the corresponding regulatory accounts over the year.
For this example a value of 0 to 19 in this parameter would have triggered an error message, a value of 20 or higher would only result in a warning message.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030704 |
| SAP Release Created in | 462 |
