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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 besent 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 CO-PA Value

Billing Doc 1 -1,764 1,764

Billing Doc 2 +354 354

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 wouldnot 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 With “+/-“ Without “+/-“ 

Debit posting (sales deduction) negative positive

Credit posting (sales revenue) positive positive

Credit Memo/return With “+/-“  Without “+/-“ 

Debit posting (sales revenue) negative negative

Credit posting (sales deduction) positive negative