AFD tables

[Former Member]

Following are the questions, I have on COI

Q1> In the AFD table for investment , we are capturing the investee company details.

But there is a field for Tarding partner also. Is it mandatory to capture the trading partner details.

Q2> In the COI settings> Activities in the collection of Investment data

There are default values for Activity entry setting is there to define the 1st consolidation, increase in capitalization, reduction in capitalization etc.

Is it mandatory to fill this accounts. Suppose if these accounts are not filled in.. will the COI execution will take place on the basis of accounts given in the AFD entries?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gokul,

1. Trading partner in investment AFD is required when you do a "Partial/Total Transfer" CI Activity.

Trading partner should then be filled by the group company which is receiving/giving the stake from/to another group company.

Other than the TRANSFER activity, I havent seen the use of trading partner information in Investment AFD.

2. As has already been said that it is not necessary to fill the items in the "Activities" screen.

In the activities screen we do settings for the items we want the system to read from the AFD (investment/equity ODS) - important when you read data from both the Totals cube and ODS.

Even if you dont make these settings, system can use the data in AFD to trigger the respective CI activity!

Regards

AJ

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Q1>Why the 'Trading Partner' field is required only for transfer. What is the uniqueness of this requirement, comparing other COI activities.

Q2> For the same question 2 of earlier, for various COI activities( Such as 1st consolidaiton, subsequence consolidation, partital transfer, total transfer, etc can one and same group account be used will differentiating all by movement types.

Additional question on this issue...

If the Investment and Equity has to be read from 'Totals cube', does the COI posting update the investment, equity tables at all?

Does the seperate Investment, equity ODS maintainence is required in this case.?

[dan_sullivan · Accepted solution]

1) don't know answer

2) yes

[dan_sullivan]

1. Trading Partner is only mandatory if the investment account requires it by the assigned breakdown category

2. It is not mandatory to fill in the account for the activities, but it helps if it is usually the same because this will then default on the entry screen, whihc may be overwritten if different.

[Former Member]

Hi Dan,

Is the following conclusion correct:

1...COI function executed using the AFD Investment table.. depends on Investor, Invetee details ... and does not use the trading partner details...

2..Even if trading partner field required as per BDC, trading partner can be same as Investee.

[dan_sullivan]

1. correct

2. yes, but it does not have to be the same as investee

[Former Member]

In BCS master data maintainence, there is a provision to maintain default values.

What is the use of this. This values default in which places in BCS?

[Former Member]

Gokul,

Please follow the rules of engagement please:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/rulesofEngagement

Best Regards,

UR

[dan_sullivan]

The breakdown category allows for the default to be automatically populated in some cases. However, for this to work, the defaults must be defined.

It may not be necessary to define defaults if this breakdown selection is not used.