SAP ABAP Data Element IMA_ADPER (Payback period, in periods)
Hierarchy
SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
   IM-FA-IA (Application Component) Appropriation Requests
     AIR (Package) IM appropr.reqs.(master data, planning, preinvestment anal.)
Basic Data
Data Element IMA_ADPER
Short Description Payback period, in periods  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type PERAF    
Data Type NUMC   Character string with only digits 
Length 3    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 3    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
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Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short
Medium 10 Periods 
Long 20 Paybk per. in period 
Heading Per 
Documentation

Definition

Time period (in periods) during which the appropriation request will pay for itself, on the basis of the preinvestment analysis.

For a payback period that does not equal an exact number of years, this time period indicates the number of periods, in addition to the years, that the investment should be used.

Example

The payback period is 7.5 years. The fiscal year version is a calendar year with 12 periods (months).

Payback period, years: 7
Payback period, periods: 6

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19991209 
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