AFD Investment

Hi I have Group called ABC, which has 3 company codes A,B,C,.
A own 90% in C and it used the 'Accounting Technique' purchase method.
B own 10% in C and it uses the 'Equity method'.
In the AFD table do I have to enter the B's investment details in C, eventhough B is consolidating C using the 'Equity Method'?
The question is since , when I entering the B's investment in AFD table, I am getting an error saying that C's investment is already entered by A.
Please let me know the opinion on this AFD Investment issue.

To use both accounting techniques and reporting accurately for B & C relationship, it is suggested that the hierarchy be:
ABC
--AC (grp)
A
C
--BC (grp)
B
C
This aligns with the ownership as well as necessary AFD as mentioned.
In grps ABC and AC C is assigned purchase method.
In grp BC C is assigned equity method.

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COI Investment data reading

if the AFD Investment data has to be read thru 'Totals' tables does it require that all ECC entry for investment need to have the Percentage of investment, Investee fields to be filled in? Can the system read the 'ECC Investment data' with out these fields?
Is there any other way to populate these fields when reaching from ECC to BI/BCS?
Is there any other additional fields to be captured in ECC for Investment entries other than above two fields?

Hi Eugene,
I really need your advice on my AFD things. Hope you can help
Now my Location Values of AFD are as follows:
Read Investment Data From : Additional Financial Data
Read Equity Data From : Additional Financial Data
Read Equity Holdings Adjs From : Additional Financial Data
The user is only performed "Impairment Test" for the goodwill.
So I only select : "Extraordinary Amortization of Goodwill & Extraordinary Amortization of Negative Goodwill" per method.
My question is, for first consolidation, what should I put in AFD manual data entry as first step to record investment, equity & the goodwill? Will the system calculate the goodwill automatically or we need to manually entered journal entry for impairment test?
Providing that the holding company owns 73% of its subsidiary.
Thanks a bunch

AFD validation..

1. While doing the validation of AFD Investment data, what does the validation calculates.. what it compares with what..
2. What kind message it gives during AFD validation.
3. How to ensure that ECC account data and AFD Investment data is equal.
4. How to automate the AFD Investment data loading from Total's cube..has some one attempted it.

1) Compares AFD Investment with the Totals Investment values for Local Currency and Group Currency
2) When validations are executed the messages indicate where there are differences between to totals records and AFD
3) Make adjustment postings to clear the messages resulting from validation
4) If you can load Investment data from totals, there is no need to use AFD and the AFD validations

COI Question

When the AFD Investment, Equity table is updated manually, the investor , investee details are filled in.
But if the investment, Equity data has to be read from 'Totals table', do we have to ensure thru the BDC that investor, investee data is filled in?
Is the Investor , investee fields filling in is must for both ' Investee Data' and 'Equity Data' , when the data is entered in ECC? or can it be filled in BI transformation logic for this accounts? is there any other options..
Please let me your views, experience on this...

Yes the BDC should require investee for investment data. However it is not necessary for this information for equity data.
In my experience, the load-from-datastream mapping has a condition for the investment account to map trading partner to investee. That solves the requirement for investee on investment account.

AFD Entry for Investment.

I have following question.. appreciate ..if someone could share some inputs...
1.     Why entering the AFD for investment data.. immediately a screen appears asking to specify against the activity( such as first consolidation,Increase/decrease in capitalization, partial/total transfer.)Are we supposed to select this activity each time we enter the AFD data? What is the purpose of this question. Is the investment is updated against each of this activity?
2.     Once I select the activity and enter the details following question comes:
Enter parent details we are already giving the investor /investee company details. Why to give the parent details in the AFD entry? What is the purpose of this.
3.     While saving the AFD data the details,. It is asking for activity number. Where this is defined?

1. Yes you must tell the system what activity you want to enter. The investment is not updated in the totals by this activity. That must ocur spearately as part of the normal accounting entries in the source GL. This triggers the elimination of this change in the investment for purchase method entities.
2. The parent details must be provided in the Accounting Technique master data. This should coincide with the AFD entry.
3. The activity number is typically automatically assigned. Check the COI configuration to see if this may be changed.

AFD and Trading Partner

Hi everybody.
Question.
I am using the AFD to record changes to investment data. On First Consolidation the trading partner field is available for input and the validation check is fine.
On an activity (any activity other than first consolidations) the trading partner field is not available which results in the validation check from failing. I need the trading partner to be filled to match the totals records. Is there a way I can get AFD to inherit or accept a trading partner??
Cheers

Hi Robert,
Investments deal with an investee unit, not with a trading partner. And all other forms have investee unit field. You need to change the validation.

Opening Balance of Investment/Equity.

As we are migrating to BCS system the investment by one entity is not match with equity in another intercompany.
I understand when we execute the COI function initially after loading the opening balance ,the balancing entry goes to Goodwill.
But can these entry be adjusted against the Retained earning due to business scenario since the aquisition is old one, except for BCS.
The question is:
1. it normal to post such entry to 'Retained earnings' using level 30 manual entry.
2.Can the COI function be configured in such a way for selected company codes that these differences go to 'Retained earnings' automatically than update the goodwill.
3.Can a reclassifcation function be used at level 30 to transfer such entry from Goodwill to retained earnings account.
Appreciate to share your experience..Points will be awarded will be helpful answers.

1. In many cases we use manual entry for posting level 30 adjustments. However I recommend you include the retained earnings at the time of go-live with the first consolidation AFD entries.
2. It may be possible (not sure) to use retained earnings as the goodwill account in the COI configuration and subsequently change it to the true good will account after the cut-over of first consolidation period. That is unless there is actually a situation where goodwill should be posted in the first period.
3. A reclassification could be used for this conversion. If so, I recommend the task be removed after the first period of using BCS, or the method be limited to the period and year of first consolidation with BCS. As with 2 above, this will not work if there is actually a situation where goodwill should be posted in the first period.

Change of method consolidation - duable data for investment and equity

Dear All!
There are: investor uniu - company A and investee unit - company B.
Company A has had 50% share in company B to 01/2010. - Equity Method.
Company A has added by 50% share in company B to 03/2010. - Puarches Method.
I use activity of investment in AFD for investment and equity. :
When I perform task consolidation of investment there is duble data for investment and equity.
And when I perform task for Change to Consolidation Group I have message Process is not nessecery.
Mabye you know why is process not nessecery?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
anka
Edited by: Anka on Mar 25, 2011 5:07 PM

Dear Sir,
Thank you for your answer.
Yes, I have task for change in group consolidation with documents in the posting level 02,12,22. I did not data in group currency, when I task change in group consolidation, but only in local currency. My mistake.
I have a new question:
When I purchase new shares, which the activite of investment I must choose in AFD:
- step aqusition or increase in capitalization?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
anka

Investment , equity data

Does all intercompany investment, equity data in ECC has to be captured with trading partner field to execute the COI function in BCS?
Suppose it is not captured with trading partner field, what are the alternative options.

Exactly...if you have:
PL00 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeBlank    DR 100
just book
PL10 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeBlank    CR 100
PL10 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeB        DR 100
The CoI will consider PL00 --> 20 as long as you check off the manual doc types in the Location of Values portion of the CoI Settings in the WB.
EDIT: Just to be clear, when you say "Equity Data in ECC" I assume you are talking about reported data from the GL (PL00). Not to be confused with Equity Data and Investment Data in the BCS Additional Financial Data (if you're using AFD).

Investment data

In the COI if the investment data has to be read from 'Totals cube'..( that is if the investment data has to be read , what ever is entered in ECC)..then does the ECC entries has to contain the field 'Activity' to inform the BCS whether it is 'First consolidaiton' or increase/decrease in capilization etc.
My doubts is since the AFD entries clearly inform the BCS COI functions , if the data relates to what kind of activity is this..should the ECC entries also indicates the same. ( this is incase if the COI Investment data will be read only from 'Totals cube'}
Please let me know your experience.

Certainly, the data basis, in the investment datastream contains 'Activity' field. However, AFAIK, the system may determine the activity indirectly. -- Remember that Location of values/Investments tab? There every CoI activity might be distinguished by the item and MoveType. So, encountering the configured here item/MT in the incoming data, the system should recognized the type of activity.

Introduce New Investment FS items into existing system

Hi All,
Please help me with the following requirement:
Requirement:
Client want to introduce New Investment FS items into existing system to make reporting specific to countries.
Expected change - Investment specific:
All Activities (First consolidation, Increase in capital etc..) have only one item as default to collect data, however to make country reporting easy, client like to increase number of FS items. Hence we will have to introduce one more FS item in each level of activity and client wants to transfer some value from old FS items to New FS items.
Concern - If client wants to transfer any value from old Investment Item to New investment FS item, How should we tackle in system ?
Please share your thoughts on to achieve & advice me standard way if any.
Thanks
Kamal
Edited by: kamal kishore on Jul 20, 2010 2:35 PM

If you use Cons of Investments (COI) and the investments are read from the Additional Financial Data (AFD) then this change will be okay. The only thing that may arise are if the validations check the investments AFD compared to totals (selected in validation tasks). The validation errors will be corrected by changing the totals item to agree with the AFD.
If you use totals for investments it may be necessary to include all items in the location of values, however I have never used totals for investments.

Is there any standard extractor for AFD provided by SAP?

Hi.
We are planning to implement SEM-BCS ? From this forum and SAP documentation( help.sap.com and service.sap.com), I just found that integration with ECC is total records(RFD) and some master data. Unfortunately, I could't find any further integration point. AFD such as inventory balance, Gross profit etc seems to be extracted from ECC such as FI, MM or CO module. But there is no mention in SAP documentation.
I think I missed good integration point SAP provided.
Otherwise, We have to develop the some program to extract AFD. Is my understanding correct?
Is there anybody who has experience to extract AFD from ECC with standard extractor or CBO program?

The main problem with automatical load of AFD is the strict dependence on the ECC/R/3 configurations that might differ very significantly.
So, there is no standard extractors for AFD.
IPI - I used to figure out the ways of calculating the figures needed for IPI with non-standard functionality. And understood that even with a standard functionality the task of extracting the proper values are not esy at all.
IPA - there are so much data that needed to be entered for IPA, plus FI-AA configuration depends on implementation...
CoI - the most of data for it is accessible in ECC, even in RFD.
So, forget about the standard and easy way of extracting the data needed. Try to examine the configuration of modules you are interested in, and find the ways to extract the data.

Revenue Analysis of Investment Certificates

Hello guys!
I have a product type created based on product category 20 - Investment certificate.
I´ve created a purchase transaction with PRICE = 500,000000 for this product on 10.01.2010 and I would analyse revenues that I got with this contract, let´s say today 10.07.2010
I updated, using t-code S_ALR_87008536 - Enter Security Prices, the security price for today with 505,00 but I can´t see revenues fixed until the date 10.07.2010 on t-code S_ALN_01001159 - Revenues.
I´ve created a sale transaction for the product, then I could see revenues using t-code S_ALN_01001159 - Revenues.
My question is: is ther any other report I can use to analyse revenues of product categories 20 - Investment certificate without having created a sales transaction for the contract?
Any clue or idea will be really appreciated.
Volnei Luiz.

Hi,
To check the revenue in that report, you need to maintain relevant configuration in IMG -- Transaction Manager-- General Settings -- Information System -- Revenue classification.
In this maintain the relevant profit/loss types and assign them to your valuation area for your update type. Once you do the settings here only will it reflect in that report.
Regards,
Ravi

WBS element in Asset master & investment order

hi,
till now we are using the capital investment order for capitalising assets, but now the client is asking for settling wbs element on to auc, can we have both WBS elment and investment order for a single asset. does any one have img document for wbs element related config.

Hi Sai,
I think I can answer part of your question. If a posting is being made to wbs element and internal order (both are real). The real posting goes to wbs element and statistical posting goes to internal order.
In this case, you will be settling the wbs element to the AUC rather than Internal Order.
Coming to the configuration, most of the configuration settings are same on Internal Orders / WBS elements.
I am sorry, I do not have any documentation.
Regards,
Sreeni

WBS Element vs investment order

Good Day,
Please can someone explain the following..................
I have CO objects a WBS element and an investment order and I have posted budgeted values to these CO Objects. I have posted actual values to these Co object via the MM and FI-AA module.
When I display the budgeted values for the WBS Element and the invesment order for the fields BPJA-WTJHR the vaules are positive. Once the actual values are posted to the WBS Element and investment order the values are displayed differently on the table COSP-(WTG001-WTG016).
For the WBS Element the values are dispalyed as negative on table COSP -(WTG001-WTG016) and for the investment order the values are displayed as postive but both values for the different CO objects are expenditure which has occured via the MM and FI-AA modules Therefore can someone please explain to me why these values are displayed differently yet the budgeted values are displayed the same.
Your soonest response would be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Ropetra

Hi
please gop through this notes it may be help full for you...............
Planning and Budgeting Measures
Use
Using this function, you can plan and budget investment measures, even if they are not already assigned to an investment program.
Integration
All of the planning and budgeting functions of orders or projects are at your disposal for the corresponding measures. For more information, see the documentation for the R/3 components, Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA) and Project System (PS) .
Orders or WBS elements that are assigned to investment programs cannot receive their overall budget by means of the budgeting functions in CO and PS, when the Budget distribution indicator is set in the program position to which they are assigned. Instead, they are limited to receiving their overall budget only by means of the budgeting functions in Investment Management.
Prerequisites
Certain restrictions apply when an investment program type is entered in the budget profile of an order or WBS element. When this is the case, the order or WBS element cannot receive overall budget unless you assign it (or a higher-level WBS element ) to an investment program position. Until you make this assignment to a program position, the fields for the overall budget and/or annual budget for orders or WBS elements are not ready for input and cannot be changed.
Activities
To plan or budget orders, choose Internal orders ® Planning ® Overall values ® Change or Budget ® Original budget ® Change.
To plan or budget WBS elements, choose Investment projects ® Planning ® Total costs ® Change or Budgeting ® Original budget ® Change.

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