Setting Up Interunit Transfers for Fixed-Amount Contract Lines

You can perform interunit transfers for fixed-amount contract lines by editing the PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit for a contract line's revenue distribution rows on the Accounting Distribution page. When you save the Accounting Distribution page, the system performs ChartField edit combinations to check that the ChartFields that you entered are valid for the PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit that you specified for a particular distribution row.

When you run the Amount-based Revenue process, the system looks for revenue distributions where the PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit value differs from the contract's PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit (which is identified by the PeopleSoft Contracts business unit). For each row where a difference exists, the system creates two additional rows of distribution in the CA_ACCTG_LINE table, where the rows are picked up and sent to the GL when you run the Journal Generator process. The PeopleSoft General Ledger tables that these rows are written to depend upon these factors:

  • The type of interunit accounting that you specified during system setup—affiliate or nonaffiliate, direct or indirect.

  • The accounting distribution (PeopleSoft General Ledger ChartFields) for the interunit distribution rows.

The system does not store these interunit entries in the PeopleSoft Contracts historical tables (CA_AP_DST, CA_AP_DFR, and CA_AP_UAR) because each revenue distribution row reflects the PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit to which the entry was made. Entries that the system makes to the GL are always to the primary ledger of the target PeopleSoft General Ledger business unit.

If the transfer is between PeopleSoft General Ledger business units that use different currencies, the system performs the currency conversions on the interunit entries by using the rate type and GL currency exchange rates from the translated amount.

The Amount-based Revenue process verifies that the accounting entries are in balance both before and after the transfer.

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