Kind help on Revenue Recognition

Friends I need some help on revenue recognition.
Example of a bundle solution that includes product license, education and consulting services. One parent SKU that auto-explodes into three child SKUs – product, education, consulting.
1. Booked revenue is allocated to one PL (based on parent SKU). Do we need to create a new unique PL? Can this be re-allocated to 3 PLs? How is this done?
Example of a Education blended offering which includes different delivery methods – ILT, video-ILT, eLibrary (WBT modules) and certification. One parent SKU that auto-explodes into the child SKUs. Each child SKU will trigger the appropriate behavior similar to the standalone offering. Customer will need to get a voucher for each component to redeem against.
2. Can we still track revenue for each delivery method and certification by the child SKU? If not, why not and how can this be done?
3. Will revenue recognition be handled separately for each component (child SKU) or as part of the bundle, by the parent SKU. For example, we send the customer a voucher for each component, sometime revenue can be recognized when the voucher is sent to the customer (eg. WBT can recognize revenue immediately once the voucher is sent to the customer).
4. Issues/requirements we need to be aware when setting this up?
If some one know how to deal with these kindly help me out...
Thanks for all the help...

An invoice cancellation would reverse all the FI entries hence the revence would be reduced by the revenue amount posted by that invoice...
Actually all the entries posted to FI would be reversed
Further use your imagination....
Regards

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Help on Revenue Recognition

Hello Friends,
I’m hoping someone can help me in answering the following questions.
Example of a bundle solution that includes product license, education and consulting services. One parent SKU that auto-explodes into three child SKUs – product, education, consulting.
1. Booked revenue is allocated to one PL (based on parent SKU). Do we need to create a new unique PL? Can this be re-allocated to 3 PLs? How is this done?
Example of a Education blended offering which includes different delivery methods – ILT, video-ILT, eLibrary (WBT modules) and certification. One parent SKU that auto-explodes into the child SKUs. Each child SKU will trigger the appropriate behavior similar to the standalone offering. Customer will need to get a voucher for each component to redeem against.
2. Can we still track revenue for each delivery method and certification by the child SKU? If not, why not and how can this be done?
3. Will revenue recognition be handled separately for each component (child SKU) or as part of the bundle, by the parent SKU. For example, we send the customer a voucher for each component, sometime revenue can be recognized when the voucher is sent to the customer (eg. WBT can recognize revenue immediately once the voucher is sent to the customer).
4. Issues/requirements we need to be aware when setting this up?
Thanks for all the help...
Vijay

Hi
But the error is related to controlling . Just go to OKKP and check wheather you have checked in the controlling area properly or not
make the following down payment configurations
item category group - 0005
item category - TAO
for this TAO item category a billing plan 01 (milestone billing plan -01) will be assigned and its billing relevance should be I which is order related billing .
billing doc type - FAZ
cancellation billing doc type - FAS
maintain a condition type AZWR which is down payment settlement , it has requirement as 2 and calc type as 48 acct key as ERL
Now when you enter a material in line item 10 and go to item data , you can see the billing plan tab.
now go to billing plan tab and enter the start date and enter the dates on which billing has to be done and then in billing request enter 0009 which is for down payment.once u press enter automatically it all the dates get blocked and billing request by default you get as 1 , that you change it to 4 or 5 . 4 is for down payment at value basis and 5 is for down payment at percentage basis. and beside that there will be a billing type .assign billing doc type as FAZ. to all dates
check the copying requirements are there at VTFA as 20 and for item category TAO copying requirements 23 is maintained or not
now do the cycle OR - LF - FAZ (billing doc type)
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Revenue Recognition (AR Closed for future month in error)

Need help with revenue recognition. In the month of June in AR July was opened in error, so it was put in to close pending. Since July was closed the last 3 days worth of June invoices did not have any revenue recognition for July. Instead July's revenue was posted in to August since August was showing as a future period, and July was closed. Is there any fix to change the revenue recognition without doing a credit and rebill of 3 days worth of invoicing? If we reopen June, and run revenue recognition again, will that help? Thanks in advance for any help.

Well there are a few ways you can go ahead and fix this, but it depends on lot of factors.
Lets say you have 1 invoice for which the revenue has been recognized in August and not July, now you can query up that invoice in the transaction's workbench and incomplete it. After incompleting all the revenue recognized distributions would be deleted(applicable 11.5.10 onwards) and when you complete the invoice again & run the RR program the revenue would be recognized in July(provided it's in an open status). Please note though that you can incomplete a transaction only if it doesn't have any activity against it!
Now coming to the real world it's possible that the number of transaction's you have could be quite large and doing this manually through the screen might not be feasible. So you could possibly write a small pl/sql script to loop through those invoice's and incomplete them by calling the complete/incomplete group transaction's api. And then again complete them and re-run RR program to complete the fix.
Please note though that you can incomplete a transaction only if it doesn't have any activity against it!
With posted transaction's or transaction's having other activity, it's possible to fix them too but that would be taking things too far and Oracle Support/Development would be best equipped to provide you the fix in that scenario.
HTH,
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Revenue recognition

Hi Gurus,
I require help regarding revenue recognition. I have a scenario where customer pays part amount as advance payment, I have following doubts
1) If I configure revenue recognition at item category, what will be the effect in case of regular payment (non advance)
2) configuration steps for revenue recognition.
regards,
HB

I have a scenario where customer pays part amount as advance payment, I have following doubts
Just search the forum with the text "Down Payment" so that you will get lot of documentation on this topic. Take the inputs and try on your own.
configuration steps for revenue recognition
First and foremost part is you / Client have to get concurrence from SAP to configure.
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HELP: AR Open Invoices Conversion with Revenue Recognition (Daily Revenue)

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I need some help on Conversion of AR Open Invoices with Accounting Rules in R12, Here the client wanted to use Daily Revenue Schedule rule,
I am developing Functional Specification Document (CV.040); Need to understand the Assumptions, Approach and Which data needs to be extracted from Legacy System.
Appreciate your reply at the earliest
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Anil,
Thanks for your response, Here are the answers to your questions.
1) The invoices that you want to convert - Do they already have revenue recognition on them?
Ans: Yes they have Revenue Recognition On Them.
2) Are you bringing only Open Invoices? What about Invoices that are closed (paid), but still have unrecognized revenue on them? DO you want to bring them
over? If no, how will be mage the recognition of those invoices?
Ans: We want to bring only Open Invoices. i.e the following scenarios want in Data Extraction
a) Invoice is Fully Paid (REC is Zero) and Unearned is Full Invoice Amount, Revenue is 0
b) Invoice is Partially Paid (REC is Partial) and Unearned is Partial, Revenue is partial
c) Invoice is fully Paid (Rec is Zero) and Unearned is Partial and Revenue is Partial
d) We do not want to bring the invoices with Fully Paid and Fully Recognized, Unearned is Zero
3) What about partially paid invoices? How do you want to bring them in?
Ans: See above scenarios.
4) Do you want to bring in all Invoice details,or just bring in a summary line with the outstanding amount?
we assume only Summary, but if the Invoices with Several Lines and Different Accounting Rules, We may have to bring them too
Appreciate your response; Suggest some possibilties?
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UNBILLED RECIEVABLE ACCOUNT- SERVICE CONTRACT WITH REVENUE RECOGNITION

Hi SAP Gurus,
I want to draw your kind attention towards my problem:
I have created service contract with one year contract and created an invoice for the whole year in advance.
Now in-between i cancelled a contract (after three months) and want to recognised a revenue for the contract period , so i'm creating a revenue recognition for the three months one by one using transaction code-VF44,
first month revenue recogniton is working fine as first month amount is going from deffered account to revenue account
But for second month instead of deffered account ,system is using unbilled recievable account ,which is wrong .
Can anybody tell me why the system is picking unbilled receivable account instead of deffered account in case of second month revenue recogniton.
This may help us:
"When i was cancelling a contract ,at that time i was entering a billing plan end date in billing plan tab at an item level.
and just after entering end date ,system was creating two lines instead of one in billing plan tab and i think because of that extra line system is picking unbilled receivables in second revenue recognition."
Thanks in advance
Ujjawal
Edited by: Ujjawal Singh Karki on Dec 29, 2010 12:05 PM

Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I am doing a contract billing for overall period that is for 12 months (contract is of 12 months).
Just after 3 months i have realized that somehow we have to cancel the contract and we canceled that in 3rd month.
I had created the created a contract with periodic billing plan and for canceling that contract i'm putting contract end date in BILLING PLAN TAB as 31/03/2011 (Let say contract is from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2011).
Can you/anybody please tell me whether is this the correct way of canceling the contract with periodic billing plan?
As per your analysis:
"It seems you have done the billing document for one period and you are doing the RR document for multiple periods and hence the revenue is going to unbilled receivable account for the period for which billing document has not been done"
As i have billed the customer for 12 months but contract was only for 3 months so i'll create RR for only 3 months and for rest of the period (i.e. 9 months) i'll create credit memo and send it to customer.
"Please use a billing type where you will specify only start date and end date of the contract and not the billing plan in contract"
How can we use billing type for contract start and end date .
I think as soon as i'm changing the dates in billing plan tab system is proposing another line item with different billing dates and that is not getting covered under deferred account that is still unbilled amount .
Waiting for your valuable inputs.
In case of any clarification kindly revert to me.
Thanks,
Ujjawal
Edited by: Ujjawal Singh Karki on Jan 20, 2011 11:10 AM

VF44 - revenue recognition error

while running VF44 (revenue recognition) run message is displaying 'Accrual period not determined for doc. 16343 000010; no revenue dist. possible.
If i were not wrong then in sales order >>accounting tab>the posting periods fields are blank ,for this reason might revenue list is not possible.
In item category i maintaed revenue recognition based on time related data in place of standard .
kindly look into matter.
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Hello Sourabh,
We had similar problem
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Batch FI postings for Deferred Revenue recognition

Hi All,
The deferred revenue postings for the mantainence contranct is done through the Batch job at the month end in my project. We work on 4.6C.
Now when the contract date is 30/09/2007 to 29/09/2008 the entry for Advances form customer (Dr.) to Deferred revenue (Cr.) is made from 30/09/2007 itself.There on the entries made are on 31/10,30/11,31/12 and so on till 30/09/2008.Thus total entries are 13 (instead of 12).
However if my contract date is 1/10/2007 to 30/09/2008 the entry is made on 31/10/2007.Therefore the total entries made are 12.
the entries are -
Deferred revenue (Dr.)
To Advances from Customer (Cr.)
(Being revenue deferred for proportionate completetion of contract AS - 7)
Thereby at month end ( till the contract end date)
Advances from Customer (Dr.)
To Deferred Revenue (Cr.)
( Being revenue Deferred over the period )
Kindly tell me the solution so that the postings are 12 in each case.

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Price Change for Revenue Recognition

Dear experts,
I am using Revenue Recognition of type B with Revenue Recognition before invoicing.
I have an issue/question about the way price changes are treated in the functionality.
The below example is used to describe the issue for your understanding:
1.Pricing master data: $100/EA
2.Price of item in sales order: $100/EA
3.Qty in sales order: 10 EA
4.Delivery & Goods issue: 10 EA
5.Revenue Recognised (VF44) for: $1000
Accounting Entry:
DR Unbilled Accounts Receivable $1000
CR Revenue $1000
6.Change in pricing master data: $120/EA
7.Partial Invoice for: 2 EA @ $120/EA
Accounting Entry:
DR Customer $240
CR Unbilled Accounts Receivable $240
8.Partial Invoice for balance qty: 8 EA @ $120/EA
Accounting Entry:
DR Customer $960
CR Unbilled Accounts Receivable $760
CR Deferred revenue $200
9.Subsequent Revenue Recognition (VF44)
Accounting Entry:
DR Deferred revenue $200
CR Revenue $200
As you can see in the example above, the amount of the price difference is not credited to sales in step 7. From what I have seen so far the additional amount due to price difference gets credited to sales only after the total invoice value for the item exceeds the revenue recognized.
Is there any option to set the system so that the price difference is taken into account for revenue recognition during each invoicing (even
when the invoicing is partial) ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

The price difference will not go to Sales in Step 7. The reason being Revenue Recognition works on the item rather than the amount. Since you have run F-44, the system finds the same in Unbilled Receivables and posts to that account.
For updating the price changes, you have to run VF46 to cancel the original RR entries. In this case, it will just clear of the RR lines if realization has not happened and post a reversal if realization has happened. This txn will also create a new RR line for VF44 which you can process.
Refer Note 820417 Implementation guide for RR. Download the attachments and look into Part2 doc page 13. This explains how to deal with price changes in sales document.
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Pricing procedure not to bill customer but revenue recognition

I'm looking for guidance on how to setup a pricing procedure conditions. First let me explain the situation. What happens is the customer buys say 2000 software licenses on a sales order. The customer is billed and the customer account is debited and a deferred account is credited. Now the customer activates one of the licenses. The pricing from the sales order is copied to a contract. This contract has a start and end date for the license. Now that license can start to be recognized based on the period of the line item contract dates.. The issue we have is that normally for deferred revenue billing takes places. Problem is customer was already billing on the sales order. Somehow the pricing procure has to credit the deferred account that was posted on the sales order and then credit the revenue recognition account that can be used by transaction VF44.
So on the invoice associated with the sales order Invoice from sales order
Dr Customer $1000
Cr 2370 $1000
The account 2370 is the deferred account. This part is fine.
Now we activate 1 of the licenses.
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Dr 2370 $120
Cr 2371 $120
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Hi
In SD billing documents customer is always debited or credited based on nature of transaction. For posting in two different G/Ls instead of customer account there is only one possible way which I know. In free goods pricing system can post debit and credit entries to different G/Ls and these G/Ls are controlled through account keys which you assign to condition types in pricing procedure.
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In this for contract item category you have to use free goods pricing which you set in item category settings in VOV7.
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I have a typical requirement related with the cost of goods sold (COGS) G/L account & the revenue recognition.
Under SAP best practice, the COGS account is updated together with the Inventory account when post goods issue (PGI) is done.
there are 2 scenarios here -
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2. Project sales - PS not being used. Just created milestones using milestone billing. Here the invoice is order related with billing plan. So the milestones are
a. 50% after order confirmation.
b. 40% after delivery.
c. 10% after installation & commissioning.
Here the revenue will be generated at three stages & the COGS will be updated after delivery (PGI).
Is there any way we can update the COGS at the time of invoice in standard SAP.....?
With best regards,
Niyaz.

Hi friend,
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Hello Experts,
I want to know how system calculates Revenue Recognition for any item in VF45. I know the configuration part of Revenue Recognition but want to know the calculation part, how calculation going to find out the vale of the Revenue recognition.
Item net price is 3139255.45 and system calculate Revenue recognition for this item is 3139020.94.
I want to know how calculation going for Revenue recognition.
Can any body help me out ? any link /document related to Revenue Recognition Calculation (not configuration) please share with me.
Thanks,

Hello Prasanth,
For example :- Maintaining an annual Price ZPRC - 1200 and Billing plan is Annual
So, while recognising SAP takes 1200 / 365(Number of days) = 3.287 per day
For jan - 31 days - 31*3.287 =101.91
For feb - 28 days - 28*3.287 = 92.05
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Revenue Recognition in Project System

Hello All,
At my current client, they are using the Project System (i.e. WBS) only for Cost and Revenue collection. POC,RA,Milestone billing,Network, Activities are out of scope. Keeping the above thing in mind, I need to know how I do the Revenue recognition thru WBS.
Mu understanding is that If I assign a WBS element on a Sales Order line item, as an account assignment it should collect the Revenue. The only requiremnt should be that WBS should be a billing element and Cost/Revenue profile should carry SD relevant settings. Once the billing is done and invoicing is done, the Revenue should appear against the WBS on running the report S_ALR_87013563/64/65/66.
Please let me know if this will work or do I need to do some more configuration from PS perspective.
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Sarang

Hi Sarang,
1. Mark WBS as billing element.
2. Assign the sales order line item to the WBS in point 1 or any WBS below that in the hierarchy.
3. Create a billing plan for the sales order line item.
4. The billing plan amount would appear as planned revenue against the WBS element (provided no credit hold useVKM3 to release).
5. Once the line item has been billed ie. Billing document has been created using VF01 or VF04, the Actual revenue would appear against the WBS element.
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Creat a planning profile that allows Automatic Revenue planning form Sales Order (tcode: OPSB)
Ensure that the planning profile is attached to your project profile (Controlling tab) (tcode:OPSA).
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Edited by: Jibat Sankar De Sarkar on Jan 21, 2009 2:49 PM

Revenue recognition in Item category

Dear All
Can you advise what exactly is revenue recognition in item category?.
I need to enter A in the field, but the field is greyed.
Thanks
Deepu Pillai

Dear Deepu,
The Concept of "Revenue Recognition" in Item Category is -
The material, with specified Item Category, is defined for income-accrual or not.
Now, Income-accrual means, say, in a month, you have "n" no. of orders to deliver, but might possible that Invoice and Payment, may get done or may not be.
So, to realise such income for a particular period, we run revenue-recognition (VF44). In VKOA, we maintain "Provisional Account" for such income.
Once invoiced, Accrued income G/L gets debited and Customer G/L gets credited.
[Revenue Recognition|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/4d/fcd139f6e4cf2ce10000000a114084/frameset.htm]
As you asked for maintaining - Type "A" in Item Cat., go through
[Time related Rev. reco.|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/59/aff23cd85c11d199d60000e8a5bd28/frameset.htm]
Another Type is "B"
[Service related Rev. reco.|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/59/aff23fd85c11d199d60000e8a5bd28/frameset.htm]
Best Regards,
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I am unable to set revenue recognition for item categories as the fields are greyed out. Please help me with relevant settings and configuration.
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