Remaining Revenue Recognition

Hi all,
I am trying to figure out what is Remaining Revenue Recognition for the past few days , but cudnt get it ...can anyone explain me the process of Remaining revenue Recognition...
In SAP PS we have developed a Customised report which has a column "Remainig Revenue Recognition", One of the users would like to know from where the amount XXXX is getting fetched in the customised report for remaining revenue recognition.

Hi,
As Gokul mentioned you need to find out what Revenue Recognition stands as per your business process. But to give an idea based one of the instance that i came across; if the projects are undergoing RA, then system posts Calculated Revenue at the end of each run based on the PoC of the project. This was considered as "Revenue Recognition" for that period. So in RPSCO if we look at the calculated revenue for this project's life cycle it gives us the total revenu recognition till date. So the difference of this amount and the planned revenue gives the remaing revenue that needs to be recognised. Hope this helps.
Regards
Sreekanth

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One option:
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Thanks for your response, Here are the answers to your questions.
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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
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I have a situation where I need to configure billing of credits for revenue recognition.
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I have a typical requirement related with the cost of goods sold (COGS) G/L account & the revenue recognition.
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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.
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We have a situation for certain Sales Order types after creation of Sales Order -> Delivery and PGI, we do revenue recognition. But there was some mistake and delivery needed to be deleted and recreated if needed. So after doing revenue recognition reversal we are reversing the PGI. After this when we try to delete the Delivery ( which would have got deleted if there was no revenue recognition process ) we get the below error.
Is it a problem with the way Revenue recognition is configured or does the standard behave like this. If the Invoice is also present in the above I am able to cancel the Invoice. If you think its a problem with the way Revenue reccognition is configured please advise.
Item 000010 cannot be deleted (revenue recognition status)
Message no. VL896
Diagnosis
The delivery or delivery item cannot be deleted.
System response
The document cannot be deleted since the delivery contains items that
reference sales document items that are relevant for revenue
recognition. When the goods issue was posted, the system created revenue
lines that had already been recognized. This means that there are
subsequent documents in revenue recognition for this delivery.
Procedure
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that the quantity zero is allowed in Customizing for the delivery item
category. When the goods issue is posted, the overall processing status
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Edited by: roy001 on Mar 27, 2011 8:03 PM

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Hello Prasanth,
For example :- Maintaining an annual Price ZPRC - 1200 and Billing plan is Annual
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