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.
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Hello,
We ara trying to make a cross participation between 2 entities without success.
Scenario:
A has the 80% of B
B has the 5% of A.
In the investment data, first we create the participation of A over B as "first consolidation"
Then when we go to create the second investment data of B over A as well as "firs consolidation" the system get us a error.
The error message:
Diagnosis:
An activity First Consolidation with activity number 1000000012 already exists for investee unit A.
System Response
The system terminates processing.
Procedure
Create the activity for a different investee unit or add activity number 1000000012 to the activity.
Somebody can help us??Hi,
First consolidation is an activity that the system performs the first time an investee is acquired in a consolidation group.
First consolidation of an investee is a prerequisite for processing in further activities of consolidation of investments.
So, Try to use activities "Step Acquisition" for the second investment in the same investee.
Hope it helps. -
Quicken 2007 investment data transfer to Quicken Essentials for Mac
Will my 10 plus years of investment data transfer from Quicken 2007 for Windows to Quicken Essentials for Mac without loss of data?
There is a version of Quicken 2007 for Lion and Mountain Lion available. If you own Quicken 2007 for Mac, it is a US$15 upgrade.
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https://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp
It appears the conversion from Quicken for PC is incomplete, and requires generation of a QIF file which is then imported:
https://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/pre-sales-questions/convert-data-from-qu icken-for-windows-to-quicken-for-mac/GEN82194.html -
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 -
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). -
COI not reading equity data after consolidation group change
Dear experts,
I am running the consolidation of investments task for a new group that has been created on 012.2009. This new group CG2 is a child of an existing one CG1, and all the consolidation units that I have in 012.2009 under CG2 were in 012.2008 under the CG1.
In my new group GC2 all the units have as first consolidation period 012.2009 and on the parent group they have as last consolidation period 012.2009.
The problem is that when I run the COI task the system does not read the equity data for these consolidation units. I have both, equity data and Investment data defined to be read from additional financial data. The system reads correctly the investment data for the parent consolidation unit, and tries to eliminate it, but as it does not read the equity data of the child so it takes the value to consolidation a difference, that is incorrect.
Does anyone know what I am missing?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
SóniaHi Sonia
i dont want to confuse you as Dan is guiding so far. let me put my thoughts some here.
CG1 12/2008
- CU - A Parent 12/2008 to 999/9999
- CU- B 12/2008 to 999/9999
- CU - C 12/2008 to 999/9999
do you have any another sub node for CU-B and CU-C? as B has investment in C
New Group: 12/2009
CG1
- CU -A 12/08 to 999/9999
- CU - B 12/08 to 12/9999
- CU - C 12/08 to 12/2009
CG2 group supose to be like this
CG1
-CU-A
-CU-B
I--- CG2
CU - B Parent 12/09 to 999/9999
CU - C 12/09 to 999/9999
- CU-C
Now with above scenario you can invest in C from B and system will treate as FIRST CONSOLIDATION based on AFD Investments/Equity
How did you maintain B investments in C at CG1 12/08 level?
and or as per Dan
You have to run PREP for CONSOLIDATION GROUP CHANGE task before CT task and after Elim Taks but before COI task
thx -
Tranfer Balnce from Investment Account to Equity Account
Hi Gurus,
1. I have a wrong balance in my Investment Account. I want to transfer it to Equity Account. I post on Entry at Posting Level 10 by Credit Investment Account (Movement Type 125), and Debit Equity Account (Movement Type 139). I get Error in validation for this amount that
"Variance between investment data and totals data"
Diagnosis:
An entry in the totals database exists for investee unit(s) 082, item 30001038, and subassignments Investee (Company) 0082/ Movement Type 125/ Prof (with balance 951,999.15- USD), but there are no matching entries in the investment data.
Any Suggestion, how to carry out this corrections?
Thanks in advance,
Ashwin NagarI have a wrong balance in my Investment Account. I want to transfer it to Equity Account.
Sorry, Ashwin. It sounds somewhat strange for me. I do not think, it's a proper decision from the business point of view.
Amount on investment account do not have to be equal to the equity of the acquired company. That's why a goodwill appears.
The error you encountered, most likely, arised because of work of special items.
If, anyway, you want to make such entries, you'd better consider the additional fin data load for either investments or equity. -
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. -
How to define the same FS item in configuration activites of Equity Data ?
In Portugal the Financial Itens for Equity data are the same for the Fist Consolidation and for the other activities, for example "subsequent Consolidation". Thus, system is displaying message UCF6602 when we try to specify FS items for other activities. How can we repeat the same FS items in "UCWB/Consolidation Functions/Consolidation of Investments/Settings/Location of Values/Equity data /Activity" for the various activities?
Otherwise can you confirm that if we are able to define FS Itens for Equity data (for example: Consequent Consolidation), and if we do not have
modifications in Investment data, is enough for the system specify the FS itens for equity data. In conclusion, we only have to post data in investment data when we have changes for FS Investmemt item1. the GTIN is generated
This should be "external" number range only.
2. a GTIN, which is already assigned to another material, can be entered manually in the GTIN field?
We can enter manually or thru' upload during master data creation provided number range is "external"(refer point no.1 above)
Unable to understand that why you need same GTIN in two different articles?
Request to understand the business process once again as this leads to confusion reg. inventory, PDC and PoS dumping. -
Databasis 0BCS_LCKYIE, 0BCS_LCVLIE
Hi experts,
I generated a databasis in SEM-BCS 6.0 (EhP4). The DSO-object for Investments includes also the following InfoObjects:
0BCS_LCVLIE
0BCS_LCKYIE
But when generating the databasis I still get 2 warnings for which I can't find SAP notes (see below).
I'm not able to select the fields in data stream "investment data" in databasis definiton as proposed by performance assistant.
Any idea how to solve this issue?
regards.
*FIRST WARNING*
No role is assigned to characteristic Local Currency Key of Investee Unit of data stream Investment Data
Message no. UCM0081
Diagnosis
Characteristic Local Currency Key of Investee Unit is contained in data stream Investment Data of data basis Eppendorf AG. However, this characteristic does not yet have a role assignment. Therefore, it cannot be used in the consolidation system.
System Response
The definition of the data basis is incomplete.
Procedure
Check whether characteristic Local Currency Key of Investee Unit should be contained in data stream Investment Data.
If it should, assign a role to the characteristic, or go to the definition of the InfoProvider in BW and use the InfoObject that is intended for the desired role.
*SECOND WARNING*
No role is assigned to characteristic Value of Investee Unit in Local Currency of data stream Investment Data
Message no. UCM0081
Diagnosis
Characteristic Value of Investee Unit in Local Currency is contained in data stream Investment Data of data basis Eppendorf AG. However, this characteristic does not yet have a role assignment. Therefore, it cannot be used in the consolidation system.
System Response
The definition of the data basis is incomplete.
Procedure
Check whether characteristic Value of Investee Unit in Local Currency should be contained in data stream Investment Data.
If it should, assign a role to the characteristic, or go to the definition of the InfoProvider in BW and use the InfoObject that is intended for the desired role.Hello,
Sorry, i was going through the queries in this forum and found that this is unattended, hence I am trying to provide a solution for this. However, I hope, by this time, you would have got the solution.
- The possibility of this error is due to the fact that role has not been assigned to the field 0BCS_LCVLIE / 0BCS_LCKYIE. If you check the table UGMD2001, you can see these entries without roles.
Solution would be to assign a role LCKEYIE for the field 0BCS_LCKYIE and LCVLIE for field 0BCS_LCVLIE. After assigning relevant roles to these objects, kindly re-generate the areaid for the relevant Application and Application Area.
I hope this helps you.
Suresh Jayanthi. -
Dear Friends
I am getting an error while executing the COI activity. The error message is as below
Change of total share in consolidation unit 102001 / 30208 does not equal 0 %
Investee 102001 / 30208 : Reported investment data must have exactly two investors.
We are following Company code and profit centre based consolidation. We have done some total transfers during period 03 and period 08 and the system did not give any error during this period. However when i run the COI for period 11 the system gives me the above mentioned error.
The common thing i have noticed is it is giving errors for those company codes which have moved to different groups, however these groups fall within the same hierarchy.
Any brilliant ideas would be highly appreciated.
Cheers
ShivHi Dan
There is one movement downwards in period 03, and there are 5 movements upwards in the hierarchy. The investee units were not removed but were maintained in multiple places when there was a downward movement; however during the upward movement the investee units were not added in the upper units at they were moving to different groups within the same hierarchy and would presumably get rolled up.
Secondly the some total transfer when made from group 1 to group 2 within the same hierarchy, they have been moved to a company which does not have the parent tick for E.g. Investee company x001 moved from Company A001 (Parent) from group 1 to Company B001 (non parent) in group 2. I feel this is incorrect, it should be moved to a parent in the other group. But i have not worked extensively on this so can you please explain, if my understanding is correct.
I hope my understanding is correct.
Cheers
Shiv -
What Quicken programs will work with OS 10.8?
Just downloaded the new Mountain Lion 10>8 and find i cannot use my Quicken for MAC 2005.
Any fix? I know that MAC essentials is not work the a plugged nickel. It is extremely basic. i hve over 15 years of investment data on my Quicken files so am really up the creek. What about MAC 2007?I recently posted this answer to a similar question:
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However: in your case, you can ignore steps 1 & 3, as the new Quicken 2007 for Lion should be able to open your Quicken 2005 PPC data file directly (as well as Quicken 2006 PPC and Quicken 2007 PPC data files! -
Hi BCS experts,
We are running the consolidation activity no.05 that is Increase in Capitalization in which we are mentioning the Equity Data and Investment Data separately with no change in percentage, while running the consolidation activity for the same consolidation unit we are getting the Goodwill +ve as well as the Goodwill -ve separately, actually the system should post the document by knocking off the equity with investment and the difference should be posted in either Goodwill +ve OR Goodwill -ve and not to the Goodwill +ve AND Goodwill -ve both separately as what the system is doing right now.
Eg: Cons Unit 4000, FS Item Goodwill +ve 3000007, FS Item Goodwill -ve 1021080, FS Item Equity 1021000, FS Item Investment 2031050
Assume first conso is already being done, there is increase in investment by cons unit 4000 with no change in percentage in 2000 and increase in equity.
Now the system should knock off the investment and the equity data and post the Goodwill +ve OR Goodwill -ve, it should not post the document for equity and investment separately creating the Goodwill +ve and Goodwill -ve
Note: while running the first consolidation with the same type of data with 01 activity, the system posts the difference perfectly in either Goodwill +ve or Goodwill -ve
Bhavesh Parmar.Dear sir
thanks for your prompt reply
I will give you following example
Parent -4000
Subsidiary -2000 with 100% held by parent
Firest consolidation is over and Goodwill+ ve is already created by knoking off the investments with Equity
Afterr subsequent consolidation Year is over and carried forward the balalnce
Next year there is increse in Share capital as well as Investments however no change is there in % COI activity number 05
Now the system should after the AFD must read the earlier goodwill posted last year and post the necessary entries in the same Goodwill+ ve but it is not doing so
It reads the increse in share capital and puts the same amount in Goodwill -ve different FS item
like Equity DR
TO Goodwill -ve CR FS item 1021080
similarly it reads the investments data and puts the same amount in Goodwill +ve
like Investments CR
TO Goodwill +ve DR FS item 3000007
It should in real senese knowk off the Equity and investments and post the difference in one FS item only and not Two as just explained above
It should post the Documnet as follow
Equity DR
INvestments CR
and whatever differnece will come it should post it to either
FS item 1021080 or FS item 3000007
but it is not doing so
IT IS not reading investment and equity data together -
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??
CheersHi 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. -
COI activity - change in capitalization (Rights issue)
Hi,
Please can you provide a solution to handle the following business scenario. (SAP help documentation mentions that the product does not support the decrease in stake resulting from change in capitalization)
How to handle Rights Issue resulting in stake dilution of holding company?
Business Scenario - Co. A has 80% stake in company B (at first consolidation level)
Company B issues additional equity(rights issue) which is not exercised by Co. A. This is bought by others(minority)
As a result, the stake of Co. A in B decreases from 80% to say 60%(dilution of stake of A)
Can you please tell how should the AFD(in terms of COI activity numbers/types) be provided to handle this situation. Because for activity - Increase in capitalization - SAP standard says that the % shareholding doesnt change.
Waiting for your valuable inputs.
Thanks
AJHi AV,
I'll try to give the entire scenario in detail -
Co. A is parent company of Co. B (100% subsidiary)
First acquisition -
Investment data 100000
Equity share capital - 100000
Reserves 23205
hence, total equity - 71795
Goodwill posted after first conso 28205
Next period - Co. B increases its equity share capital by -50000
which is provided to system in AFD with CI activity 05
Co. A's share gets diluted because all additional equity is taken by external parties.
Say it gets diluted to 82.11%
So in investment data I provided -17.89% as change in shares, with activity type 10 and investment value zero.
System posts two docs - one for increase in capitalization and another for partial divestiture
1. Increase in capitalization document -
Equity share capital is reversed(+50000)
and entire -50000 goes in negative goodwill (since the investment was zero)
2. Partial divestiture document - 8945 (17.89% of 50000)is posted in "Profit from divestiture" and Minority interest is also created of 8945
This doesnt serve my purpose of "Dilution of stake resulting from additional equity issued by subsidiary company"
Goodwill posted earlier(in first conso) is not getting affected?
Please give me some inputs because this is a very common business scenario..and whoever has done a BCS implementation must have tested for this scenario...
Regards
AJ
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