Internal Order settlement to one value field in CO-PA (revenue and cost CE)

Question

hi there,
we want to settle an internal order to one CO-PA Value field.
The problem is, that when on the internal orders are postings with CE type revenue and costs, in settlement it reduces the internal oder by the correct amount, but in CO-PA all values come with positive sign)...That would be fine if we would use several value fields, but we want to use only one value field for this settlement..
IO: Revenue: 10 Cost 5  ---> 5  --> thats the amount we want to transfer to CO-PA through settlement
in COPA: 15  (10 + 5)..
I treid to exclude the revenue CE from settlement, but this doesn't work (settlement rule incomplete)
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Markus

Answer 1

Hi,
The sign of a value field in CO-PA for the settlement of orders, projects is always determined depending on the cost element type of the cost element/account.
The logic is as follows for record type C:
                           sign in CO-PA for postings
cost element type            debit          credit
    11                                   -               +
    others                             +               -
The logic of settlement into CO-PA works like this:
1.) The first step is that all values are transferred from the sender as they were posted in the database on this side
    On the sender side all debits have '+' sign and all credits have    a '-' sign no matter what cost element type is used.
    Usually costs are posted as debit with cost element type '1'    and revenues as credits with cost element type '11'.
2.) The second step reverses the sign of all cost elements with type    '11' (and exclusively those).
    The intention is to have only positive values in CO-PA to be used in reporting. (There you can set up rules what needs to be added or subtracted).
Note 369378 explains the logic and provides a workaround.
regards
Waman