Purchase Order Carryforward (FMJ2) Does Not Recognize Assignment Changes

Question

In our year end processing, we ran FMJ2 to do purchase order carryforward. We have about 15 documents which had erroneous carry forward amounts. In each of these documents, there was a change in account assignment in the sender fiscal year. Fields which had assignment changes included Fund, Commitment Item, and/or Funded Program.
When FMJ2 did the carryforward, it appears to have ignored the assignment change, and ignored any subsequent activity applied to the new assignment.
It brought forward only activity applied to the original assignment.
Has anybody else enountered this? Can anybody tell me what may be causing this, and how to fix it?
Thank you.
Will assign points for solution.

Answer 1

Hello Aoife,
If you need to perform a carryforward with changes in FM Account Assignment, you should define a Derivation Strategy for reassignment on closing operations.
So, what you could do here is to reverse the Carryforward using FMJ3, and then define this derivation strategy for reassignment and perform FMJ2 again.
You don't specify which is the release you are working on, but nevertheless, please find more information in the SAP Library / Funds Management for SAP_APPL 470-EA-PS200:
<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/f0/ca5716260211d28a430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm">Funds Management</a>
and choose Chapter "Closing Operations-> Derivation Strategy for Reassignment with Closing Operations".
I hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Mar