SAP FICO

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Availability Control
Purpose
This component helps you monitor available funds.
When you execute the budget you can claim the
assigned funds for expected expenditures via
earmarked funds. Postings in the Funds Management
feeder systems that refer to these earmarked funds
establish commitments (such as purchase orders) and
actual data (such as invoices and payments) is
created. These forms of budget usage are collectively
known as assigned funds.
As the person responsible for the funds, you can use
the Information System to compare existing budget
usage with the funds currently available. In addition to
the funds overview in the information system, which
acts as a "passive" availability control, the component
provides functions that prevent budget overruns in the
system.
Integration
Availability control influences the posting procedures
in Funds Management - earmarked funds, funds
transfers, budget transfers, supplements - as well as
the posting procedures in the components integrated
with Funds Management.
When you enter an activity, such as a purchase order,
which is assigned to a funds center and commitment
item, the system checks whether the budget or
released funds available are sufficient.

Features
With this component, you can fine-tune budget
monitoring:
• Availability control for revenues and expenditures
 • Availability control against releases (only for
expenditures)
• Execute availability control against annual budget
or overall budget
• Tolerance limits
• Different behavior of availability control during
commitment postings

Note:
All financial transactions or logistic transactions,
which have impact of consuming budget amount for
the Fund center or Fund derived in that transaction
availability control is used by the system and
according to tolerance limits set, warning or error
message is displayed.

As availability Control is only a tool for preventing

overrun of Budgets in the system, there is no specific
procedure or transaction to be displayed here.
 SAP FICO
User manual
Published by Team of
SAP Consultants
at
SAPTOPJOBS
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a

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