In transaction KE4I, SD condition types are assigned to value fields for flow of values in to cost based PA.

In same customizing screen you have an option to activate transfer of +/-sign for every mapping of condition type to value field. It could be confusing to determine proper usage of this setting and this document tries to explain its suggested use and implications. It is recommended to activate this sign in two situations If the condition type mapped to the value field can carry both positive and negative values. This should make sense as it would be inappropriate to send positive values to CO-PA irrespective of the positive/negative condition value. In such case there is a possibility of inconsistent data in CO-PA. For example consider a condition type ZDDS Commissions. In a business scenario there can be a commission discount and since it is a deduction, condition type would have a negative value (-1,764) and a positive value will be sent to CO-PA value field as +/- sign is not checked. In another scenario, due to commission surcharge, condition value for condition type ZDDS is positive (354) and similarly a positive value will be send to CO-PA. Considering both the scenarios, total commission value should be +1,410 and CO-PA reports show 2,118 as total commissions. Condition Value -1,764 +354 CO-PA Value 1,764 354

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So it is recommended to activate transfer of +/- sign for such conditions. If a condition type holds a debit and credit value in billing document. In case of earlier scenario, values in CO-PA would end up inconsistent but with condition type holding both negative and positive values in same billing document, account document will not be created and system would insist on activating the transfer of +/- sign to CO-PA. Here is an example The pricing procedure shown below has a condition type ZDDS that has both discount and surcharge in the same billing document. In such situations, system would not post accounting document unless transfer of sign is activated.

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In customizing you can identify if condition types that are capable holding positive and negative values in the pricing procedure. Maintain Condition Types -> Control Data -> Plus/Minus field. If this field is blank, then condition type can hold both positive and negative values. Note: System would not throw an error or stop creating the accounting document just because the plus/minus field in condition type settings is blank and transfer of +/sign is not active in value field mapping. It identifies as an issue only when positive and negative values are calculated in pricing procedure for same condition type.

Once you had activated the transfer of +/- sign, I would recommend testing credit memo postings as well to validate flow of values to CO-PA as the impact of this setting has on both billing document and credit memo. The table below explains the sign transferred to CO-PA in different situation.

Billing Document Debit posting (sales deduction) Credit posting (sales revenue)

With +/- negative positive

Without +/- positive positive

Credit Memo/return Debit posting (sales revenue) Credit posting (sales deduction)

With +/- negative positive

Without +/- negative negative

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