Analyzing Customer Line Items in FICO

Use

The receivable from the customer has now been posted with the billing. The payer is not the same as the customer and the invoice recipient. Therefore a sold-to party number must be entered that differs from that of the customer.

Procedure

1. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Accounts Receivable ® Account ® Display/Change Line Items
Transaction Code	FBL5N

2. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Customer account	1050	3050
Company code	1000	3000
Open items	Select	Select
Open at key date	Noted baseline date for payment	Noted baseline date for payment

3. Choose .

The system displays a list of open invoices for the customer for the selected document date. The delivery document numbers (delivery note number from the second procedure) can be seen in the Allocation field.

4. Position your cursor on the document that you have just posted.
5. Choose .

The system displays the first item in the document. This concerns the posting of the receivable. The sold-to party’s reconciliation account in the balance sheet is the account 140000 (domestic receivables) in G/L accounting.

Further information is provided in the form of the cash discount base and the terms of payment .

The baseline date is the date to which the limits for the cash discount and net due dates are related.

6. Note the cash discount base, the terms of payment and the bline date as you will need these entries for posting incoming payments.
7. Choose More data.

The system displays a dialog box showing the planning date on which update of the expected incoming payment occurs in cash management and forecast.



The system determines the date under consideration of various information such as "baseline date in the FI billing document" and "previous payment history of sold-to party". The influence of these two components (previous payment history) in particular, means that at first glance the planning date is possibly not traceable. To do this, you first have to go into customer credit control.

8. Note the planning date.
9. Choose .
10. Choose .
11. Double-click on the sales revenue line (2^nd document item).
12. Choose More.

The Profit Center 1010 or 3010 stands for superior pumps and was derived from the sales order data.

13. Choose Profitability segment .

The system displays a dialog box with information about the derivation of characteristics on the profitability segment.

14. Choose Continue.
15. Choose .
16. Choose until the overview tree appears.