13.8 Debit/Credit Tab

Both Debit definitions and Credit definitions are built and maintained on the Outputs process tab.

Within the Outputs process tab, the Debit/Credit tabs allow you to navigate back and forth between a rule's Debit definition and its Credit definition. You may also use the Debit/Credit tabs to suppress the output of either Debits or Credits, but you may not suppress the output of both Debits and Credits.

• When Output is Management Ledger-level: When posting allocation results to the Management Ledger-level, the Profitability Management allocation engine generates a balanced accounting transaction consisting of multiple debits and credits. One debit or credit is generated, or you may generate thousands of debits and credits. When the output table is Management Ledger, hierarchy node members can be selected in Output [Debit and Credit] tabs only for Static Driver and Dynamic driver allocation types. Other allocation types do not support hierarchy node member selection in Output.

  Figure 13-28 Output Tab

  
  

  

  
  
• When the Output Table is Instrument Level: When using an allocation rule to update an Instrument or Transaction Summary table, the Profitability Management allocation engine updates your chosen output column for each instrument-level account found in your Source and for which a matching Driver is found.

When the output is generated to the Instrument or Transaction Summary tables, you may choose to either Replace or Increment your target column values. The default behavior for Allocation rules built is Replace.

Figure 13-29 Debit/Credit Tab - Output Column Option