Hierarchy
EA-FIN (Software Component) EA-FIN⤷
FI (Application Component) Financial Accounting⤷
FERC (Package) IS-U/FERC: Regulatory Reporting
Basic Data
| Data Element | FE_EXT_SET |
| Short Description | Treatment of external settlement cost elements |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | XFIELD | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 0 | |
| Medium | 0 | |
| Long | 40 | Force direct account assignment |
| Heading | 7 | ExtSett |
Documentation
Definition
When the indicator is checked then all external settlement cost elements have to be directly assigned to a regulatory account. If it is not checked then the external settlement cost element can also be traced like any other primary cost element.
Example
Lets assume you have assigned a regulatory account to the external settlement cost element. The CO object which is settled externally has to be a final object with a regulatory indicator. All amounts traced to this object on any cost element have to be posted to a special regulatory clearing account in the traced costs postings. The direct postings procedure treats the external settlement: The posting to the asset or G/L account goes to the regulatory account desired and the other side of the document, the posting to the external settlement cost element has to be sent to the same regulatory clearing account thereby offsetting the traced costs posting. This gives you an additional check if the traced costs match the settled costs which is essential for example for capital orders.
Note
Before version 1.2 you have been forced to use the direct assignment method.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030704 |
| SAP Release Created in |
