Create Commitment Item – FMCIA

Definition:-

Commitment items represent the functional grouping

of expenditures and revenues within a financial
management area (FM area).

During the creation of the commitment item user can

assign it directly to Superior Commitment item thereby
creating normal hierarchy for commitment items.
In a separate tab alternate hierarchy can also be
defined.

Prerequisite:-

No specific prerequisite.

Menu Path:-

Accounting -> Public Sector Management -> Funds

Management-> Master data -> Commitment Items ->
Individual Processing – Create

Transaction Code: FMCIA

Enter FM Area on the initial screen:

Click
Enter Commitment Number (24 character key) on the
screen and press Create icon

Various fields appearing on tab screen can be

explained as under:

Basic data tab page

Commitment 24-character alphanumeric code
item (key) for a commitment item
Name / You use the fields Name and
Description Description to create the name and
additional description of the
commitment item.
Directly postable You can assign directly postable
/ Not directly commitment items to the G/L
postable accounts or cost elements relevant
to Funds Management. This
minimizes the time required to
enter the posting transaction and
is a prerequisite for correctly
forwarding commitments and
actual data to FM from other
components.
Commitment items marked as Not
directly postable fulfil the function
of summarization items in the
commitment item hierarchy in
Funds Management. However, you
can also use Directly postable
commitment items as
summarization items.

Financial You use the financial transaction

transaction to assign a clear use for business
transactions.
Commitment Within a commitment item
item category hierarchy of a sub-hierarchy all
commitment items have the same
item category. When you create a
commitment item within the
hierarchy (except for the top item),
 the system automatically takes
over the item category of the
predecessor to the new item. This
is intended to prevent, for example,
expenditure items being made
subordinate to revenue items by
mistake.
Funds center You can specify a funds center in
default value the commitment item master
record and it will be copied to the
document when you perform a
posting transaction as long as
another funds center is not already
entered in the document.
Statistical Commitment items indicated as
commt item statistical commitment items such
cannot be budgeted directly. At the
same time, the postings are no
longer subject to availability
control.
Superior In individual maintenance, you can
commitment determine the directly
item superordinate commitment item. If
you make this assignment in the
Change standard hierarchy
function, the entry will
automatically be made in the
master data.

Update relevant field as shown in the screen shot

below:
Click on

Alternative hierarchy tab page

Variant If you want to use the functions of
the alternative commitment item
hierarchy in the FM area, in
addition to the standard variant.
Superior You can determine the directly
commitment superior commitment item in the
item alternative commitment item
hierarchy, here. If you make this
 assignment in the Change
alternative hierarchy function, the
entry will automatically be made in
the master data.

We are defining alternative hierarchy as shown in the

screen below:

Come back to first TAB

Click on Save button

Commitment item is created.