SAP BPC ALLOCATION PROCEDURE

Hi Gurus,
We have a simple allocation that we would like to put into BPC but will need guidance on how to implement. Every month we forecast and annually we budget for Group Office(100) which gets allocated to companies 222 at 25% and 333 at 75%
The 3 account used are:
-433333 u2013 this is the 100% revenue received from 333/222 below
-782222 u2013 this is the 75% expense paid to 100 above
- 782222 u2013 this is the 25% expense paid to100above
Analysis:
Account: 433333(INC), 782222(EXP)
Category: forecast, budget
Please help me
The required settings or scripts
How to validate scripts
How to verify the values
Thanks,
Muni

Hi,
If you want 25% to be allocated in one account and 75% into another account, you can use a normal REC statement.
*WHEN ACCOUNT
*IS <mention the source account>
*REC(FACTOR = 0.25, ACCOUNT = <mention the destination account)
*ENDWHEN
You can have a similar REC statement for the other account as well.
Hope this helps.

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