Hi
We want to use distribution of dividends activity during C/I. According to SAP help, in this activity minority interests of Distribution of Dividends, Retained Earnings and Clearing Item for Distribution of Dividends will be calculated as below:
The balances that still remain on the distribution of dividends items after the elimination of investment income are reclassified to minority interests items.
Minority interests are recorded on the basis of group shares for the eliminated retained earnings at the consolidation units receiving the dividends.
Distribution of dividends activities are generally performed for both the distributing investee unit and the receiving consolidation units. Each of these activities also records minority interests in the clearing item for distribution of dividends.
We have Parent unit A owns 60% of the shares in consolidation unit U.
Investee unit U reports a distribution of dividends for the amount of 10000. Consolidation unit A, reports an investment gain of -6000 .
We got documents in Elimination of Investment Income as below, which seems quite correct.
| Cons Unit | Partner Unit | Item | Value |
1 | A | U | Investment Income (income statement) | 6000 |
2 | U | A | Distribution of Dividends | 6000- |
3 | A | U | Clearing Item for Distribution of Dividends | 6000- |
4 | U | A | Clearing Item for Distribution of Dividends | 6000 |
5 | A | U | Retained Earnings | 6000 |
6 | A | U | Financial Statement Balancing Adjustment | 6000- |
Then we do C/I, and got the document of Distribution of Dividends as below:
| Cons Unit | Item | Value |
1 | U | MI-Distribution of Dividends | 4000 |
3 | U | Distribution of Dividends | 4000- |
5 | U | Adjusted Statistical Net Income - | 10000 |
6 | U | MI-Adjusted Statistical Net Income - | 4000 |
7 | U | Statistical Offsetting Item | 14000- |
Minority interests of Distribution of dividends is posted correctly .
But Minority Interest of clearing item for distribution of dividends is zero(overall 6000 minus group 6000),which I think should be 4000.
And retained earnings of A isn’t considered at all.
According to SAP help, C/I automatically reads all totals records with a document type that uses posting level 20 (two-sided elimination) and business application 3 (elimination of investment income), and processes these records in the distribution of dividends activity.
Did I miss any customizing?
link of sap help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem60ep1/helpdata/en/0d/3f5c3c3806af06e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
Screen shot of the document is attached.
Many thanks.