Revenue Recognition Process in Oracle Projects

I am new to Oracle Projects and needs to understand the Revenue Recognition process.
User has created one Contract under which he has Intercompany Billing, Costing and Elimination Projects. He booked the cost under the Costing project and then ran a custom elimination program to eliminate the intercompany cost. Now he is going to the billing project and running the 'Generate Draft Revenue' program however nothing is getting generated. He wants to know why revenue is not getting recoginised.
Is it the correct way of recognizing the revenue. The Distribution rule being used is Event/Event however no event has got created in the billing project to recognize the revenue.
Please suggest.

Hi ,
The subcontracting process can be exceuted in the following way..
The modules involved will be PA, PO, AP..
This can be handle with the P2P cycle..
Raise a servie PO with the project information in the PO distributions for the service that needs to be subcotracted..
specify the matchig option in the PO Shipments
Enter a receipt (Optional)
Enter a AP invoice and match it with PO or receipt as per the requirement and then run PRC: Interface supplier costs..
this will post the expenditure in the Projects.
In addition to the above i fu have complex PO (with helding some portion of the order amount as retention, advace payment to be provded)
this can be handled through creating the PO through selfsevice PO which accomodates this functionality.l
Thanks
Vijay.

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We have projects where certain portion of revenue is recognized based on events(ex: equipment shipment) and certain portion is recognized as cost is incurred(Percentage of Completion).
In Oracle Projects we can have only one Distribution rule for Revenue per project and doesn't allow to have different Revenue distribution rule at the task level.
Business case: Project is for Equipment and Additional Service is purchased, separate tasks are created for Equipment(Task#10) and Service(Task#20).
Billing is based on Events.
Equipment(task#10) revenue is recognized based on order line shipment(event created),
revenue for Service(task#20) is recognized as Cost is incurred to perform the Service, based on POC calculation.
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Funding is at Task Level (set at Project Type), Baseline Funding without Budget is enabled(i.e Revenue budgets are created when funding is baselined)
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Set the distribution rule on project to COST/EVENT
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On tasks for Service(Task 20) we entered a $$ Amount(non zero) for Forecast Cost budgets.
Task 10( Equipment - Event based revenue), $0 Cost budget
Create Costs on task 10, Distribute, Account, run the processes to generate revenue
Create a manual revenue event for equipment shipment
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Create Costs on task 20, Distribute, Account, run the processes to generate revenue
Automatic Revenue events from Billing extension(Cost-to-Cost Revenue) are generated, since there is cost budget, Revenue is generated based on POC calculation.
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With the assumption that we will not maintain forecast cost budgets for equipment tasks and use the standard Cost-to-Cost Revenue extension.
We would like to know what is the impact of the above solution option on standard Project Billing functionality and any others.
Any other workarounds to achieve what we are looking for(i.e multiple revenue recognition methods on a project)
How others achieved similar business requirement with Oracle Projects(At present we are creating a 2nd project for Service component) and it has it's cons(consolidated billing etc, since we will be funding 2 projects)
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Dear Harish,
I am not sure i have a perfect solution but you can try this.
Set Billing extension to Cost/Event (Percent complete revenue) this will be used for all the scenarios where revenue should be recognised by the system like Ex: Task20
Use Pre-Approved batches for rest of transactions where the cost directly effects the Project.
Regards
Shaan

What is the Revenue recognition process ?

Hello Experts,
Could you explain the concept of "Revenue recognition" and what is the use of this process.
Thanks and Regards

Hi
Revenue recognition controls the posting period in which revenues are entered and their value.
Revenue recognition means that revenues can be posted in FI independently from the billing document (which normally posts to revenue accounts). This means that revenues can be posted before, during or after billing or a value that has already been billed can be distributed between various periods.
Revenues can be posted periodically or on the basis of specific events:
Standard revenue recognition means that the billing document posts directly to a revenue account. This posting is made without involving the Accrual Engine, i.e. without a revenue recognition process.
Periodic (time-related) revenue recognition means that the revenue from a sale is distributed and posted equally across the entire contract validity period. Billing posts to an accruals account here and revenues are first transfer posted to the revenue accounts in a second step.
Service-related revenue recognition means that the revenue is recognized as the result of an event such as a confirmation or a delivery. Billing also posts to an accruals account here and revenues are first transfer posted to the revenue accounts in a second step.
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Hi All,
Need your help...
How do I in project systems create ZERO entries when I run profit recognition process for a project. This project has been set up in Project systems for our plant (Vehicle) under the Construction Profit Center
Is there an area in this setup that needs to be set so that it does not pull through the profit recognition when we run our monthly report for all the other WBS’s.
Your help in this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Roshan

Hi Roshan,
I assume you are using Result analysis to recognize profit. If yes then make use of user status on wbs. for instance if the user status of wbs is A then profit won't be recognized, once status is changed to B then profit recognition will happen. configure user status dependent RA.
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We are facing an issue with revenue recognition. This is with regard to fixed price project(Item catagory: FPR) wherein process follows with Sales order-->Delivery-->PGI--->Revenue recognition(VF44). Revenue recognition is carried out with reference to the delivery document.
After completing revenue recognition w.r.t the delivery document, still document is appearing in VF44 for revenue recognition. My understanding is it is not supposed to be appeared in VF44. One more thing is in VF44 "Follow On" document is appearing as Sales order number.
please suggest how to fix this issue.
with regards,
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Subcontracting Process in Oracle Projects

Hello,
Can some one please share some inputs on how can a process of subcontracting handled in Oracle projects.
I would like to know the high level process (with modules to handle) when we enter in to an agrement with subcontractors
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Hi ,
The subcontracting process can be exceuted in the following way..
The modules involved will be PA, PO, AP..
This can be handle with the P2P cycle..
Raise a servie PO with the project information in the PO distributions for the service that needs to be subcotracted..
specify the matchig option in the PO Shipments
Enter a receipt (Optional)
Enter a AP invoice and match it with PO or receipt as per the requirement and then run PRC: Interface supplier costs..
this will post the expenditure in the Projects.
In addition to the above i fu have complex PO (with helding some portion of the order amount as retention, advace payment to be provded)
this can be handled through creating the PO through selfsevice PO which accomodates this functionality.l
Thanks
Vijay.

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Is it possible to interface legacy timesheet system with Oracle Projects. The intention is to enter timesheets/hours thru the legacy system and calculation of revenue and invoice in Oracle Projects.
1)Is this achievable, without issues?
2)How complex is this to achieve?
3)Any URL or documentation will be really helpful in this regard.
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I´ve activated RR functionality using service based and aceptance date.
I've followed the intructions from the best practices documents and the notes:
Note 820417 u2013 IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE FOR REVENUE RECOGNITION
Note 1172799 u2013 NEW VERSION OF BEST PRACTICES FOR REVENUE RECOGNITION
Note 678260 CONSTRAINTS
Note 777996 u2013 ACCOUNT SETTINGS FOR REVENUE RECOGNITION PROCESS
Note 779366 u2013 REVENUE RECOGNITION IN THE SD MODULE
Note 1166848 u2013 CUSTOMIZING SETTINGS
Note 782758 u2013 PREREQUISITS FOR USING REVENUE RECOGNITION
Note 835367 - Activating SAP ERP SD revenue recognition
Note 1000830 - Revenue recognition through incoming invoice (third-party
Note 1025066 - Revenue recognition by proof of delivery (POD)
Note 1120297 - Revenue recognition by acceptance date
Note 1125456 - Revenue recognition due to customer-specific event
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The strange thing is that if we use a material with profit center (without any WBS or order indication in the sales order) all the revenue recognition process runs perfectly (we save the order, VBREVK is fullfiled, VF44 is run and the invoice is done correctly).
Does anybody know why when using a WBS element in the sales order, SAKN2 field is not fullfiled and the incompletion log is activated???
Is it a program error? Or are we doing something wrong?
Quick responses will be apreciated since we need to move on within two weeks!
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Revenue Recognition Tied to Invoice

Hi All,
We have a following requirement to meet for our revenue recognition process. I would like to know if it is possible to achieve in version 11.5.10.2.
Currently in Oracle 11i (11.5.10.2), revenue recognition is tied to invoices. We have created accounting rules, and invoicing rules to recognize the revenue. However, since the revenue recognition is tied to invoice, we are facing the following problem.
For Example, We have a contract spanning three years duration with the total contract value of $300,000. The client pays $50,000 in first year, $100,000 in second year and $150,000 in the final year. As per the functionality in 11i, our first year revenue recognition is breaking into $4166.66 every month ($50,000/12 Months), second year revenue breaking into $8333.33 ($100,000/12 months), and the third year revenue breaking into $12,500 every month ($150,000/12 Months). Instead of this, we would like to recognize the monthly revenue as $300,000 / 36 Months, even though the invoice schedule is as mentioned earlier (50k invoice in the 1st year, 100k invoice in the 2nd year, and 300k invoice in the 3rd year).
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Abm

Hi Abm,
You have rightly mentioned in your first note that the revenue recognition is tied to the Invoice. At given time, the amount of revenue recognized on an invoice is always less than or equal to the Invoice Amount. So, in order to recognize the revenue, you need to have an invoice.
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Thanks,
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Not able to delete a delivery after revenue recognition is reversed

Hello Gurus,
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
If you no longer require the delivery or delivery item for deletion, set
the delivery quantities to zero and repost the goods issue. Make sure
that the quantity zero is allowed in Customizing for the delivery item
category. When the goods issue is posted, the overall processing status
is set to C and the delivery can be archived. Message determination
should be configured not to send any messages in this case. To make sure
that the system makes revenue corrections if there are differences
vbetween billed and recognized values, set a billing-relevant rejection
reason in the sales document item if more than one partial delivery is
allowed.
If you still want to use the delivery, adjust the delivery quantities
accordingly. Alternatively, deliver the referencing sales document item
again. Note that the sales document item cannot be delivered again if
only a partial delivery is allowed.
What are the changes I can do to Delete the Delivery?
If I cannot Delete the Delivery, Should I make the Delivery as 0 qty and create a new delivery with changed qty and do further process. Or should I reject the Sales Order and create a new sales order with exact qty and do further process.
Please advise.
Regards,
SNK.
Delivery has one line item. For the above case scenario, invoice is there for some deliveries and for some deliveries there is no invoice. Eg: SO -> DN -> PGI -> Rev Recog -> Iv or SO -> DN -> PGI -> Rev Recog. Requirement was SO was wrongly created as the qty was wrong or in some cases SO needs to be rejected. I am able to cancel Invoice. Rev recog is reversed. PGI is cancelled by VL09. Not able to delete Delivery and I get the above error. Ideally I thought since Rev recog is reversed, Delivery should have been deleted but not happening and above error comes.
SO - Sales Order DN - Delivery IV - Invoice
Edited by: sapconsultnt on Dec 16, 2009 5:06 AM

Hello,
Please review the Note 1224871 which introduced this functionality.
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Raghavendra YN

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Hi
Please refer the below mentioned link
http://fuller.mit.edu/sb_support/media_lab/deferred_revenue_recog.htm
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-log-sd/intercompany-revenue-recognition-process-3042637
It may help you
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SD Time/Sevice related Revenue Recognition

Hi
Has anyone switched to a time/service related revenue recognition method from the standrd billing method? we are looking at switching and I wanted to know of anyones experience and problems you came across during your change, did you create new item categories or just update the existing categories(this is what we are thinking of doing). How did you handle open Sales orders which are using the standard method etc...
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BEST PRACTICE
Knowledge Document
Version 1.4
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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.
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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).
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Creat a planning profile that allows Automatic Revenue planning form Sales Order (tcode: OPSB)
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jibat
Edited by: Jibat Sankar De Sarkar on Jan 21, 2009 2:49 PM

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