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Jun 10, 2008 at 07:20 AM

Accrual engine - integration with SD is possible?

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Dear All,

I am asking your help to find a solution to the following situation:

My client provides IT maintenance services to its customers. They have a lot of long-term contracts with customers. Under these contracts they often do not issue invoices to the customers each month, but instead they have an annual fee that they bill once a year, or maybe quarterly billing, etc.

For accounting, it is necessary to accrue the revenue over the period of the contracts (e.g. if they bill a full year's fee in the middle of the year, they need to accrue it over the full year).

I am looking for a solution to somehow automate the accrual of the revenue, based on the data entered in SD (sales order, invoice).

I am planning to use the accrual engine in FI to post the accruals; however, I need to find a way to link the accrual engine to SD, so that the accrual objects in the accrual engine are created automatically based on the SD documents.

Does anyone know whether it is possible?

There is an option in SPRO for the accrual engine to Define automatic data transfer, but I am not sure how that works.

Thanks for any help.

Sandor