You can configure a number of settings for financial planning in Customizing for SAP Portfolio and Project Management. The figure provides an overview of the settings required for financial planning. Additional settings are required to set up the FI/CO interface.
You define the type of currencies and period types that are to be used for financial planning for portfolio buckets, items, and initiatives. You define the possible currencies and period types in advance in the Define Currency Units and Define Period Types fields respectively, in Customizing for SAP Portfolio and Project Management.
In the Customizing activity Define Financial and Capacity Categories, you create the financial categories and financial groups that you require for financial planning. You first create identifications and texts for the individual financial categories. Following that, you create at least one financial group for each financial category. This group also consists of identifications and descriptive text. Since the introduction of distribution functions, you have the option of maintaining a distribution type, according to calendar days or working days.
You create financial views in the Customizing activity Define Financial and Capacity Views. You create an identification and appropriate text for each view that you require for your financial planning. You also define whether the view is to be available at the portfolio item level, initiative level, initiative item level, and/or at the portfolio bucket level.
For views at the portfolio item level, you control whether the view permits manual entry, or whether it is to be filled automatically using the FI/CO or Project Management integration or your own BAdI implementation.
For views at the portfolio bucket level, you can choose between manual entry, the use of BAdIs, integration of capacity assignments, or the rolling up of the values of the assigned portfolio items. You can roll up financial data by executing the program /RPM/FICO_INT_PLANNING. You can start the program using transaction SA38. Depending on the execution options, you can perform the rollup, integration, or planning of financial data.
The data of views that are filled using the FI/CO integration can also be used to derive the values of the Plan Costs Total, Plan Costs YTD, Actual Costs Total, Actual Costs YTD, Total Budget, and Annual Budget fields in the detail screen of portfolio items. To do so, you are required to assign an Amount Type to the relevant views, which the system then uses to determine whether the view values are to be used to determine the plan costs, actual costs, or budget values.
Definition of Financial Views
Portfolio types allows you to control which financial views and financial categories are to be available for various portfolios. In the Customizing activity Define Financial Capacity Settings for Portfolio Types, you assign the relevant financial views and financial categories to the individual portfolio types. You also define the financial chart groups dependent on the portfolio type to evaluate financial data graphically.
A financial chart group is only a grouping of one or more financial views, which are to be displayed within a chart. You can choose not to display all combinations of financial views and financial categories in financial planning. In the Customizing activity Define Financial and Capacity View for Front-End Configuration, you can define which combinations are allowed.