Functionality
With this method you can store both figures from the financialstatements and from the profit and loss statement of a company as wellas key business figures about the company's credit standing for eachfinancial year.
You can use the information from the annual financial statements and theconsolidated financial statements, as well as the company's key businessfigures, to gain a comprehensive insight into the business partner'seconomic circumstances. This can help you to make decisions about thecreditworthiness of the company.
In accordance with the regulations contained in Paragraph 18 of theGerman Banking Act (GBA) concerning the credit standing review, banksare also obliged to request that borrowers disclose their economiccircumstances, in particular by submitting annual financial statements,for loans above a certain amount.
You can process fiscal year information for business partners belongingto the category Organization.

Notes
This method processes data for each business partner.
A preprocessing run takes place before the data is added:

• A check is performed to determine whether the business partner with a
valid business partner number is available for processing.

• A simple exclusive lock is activated.

This prevents other users from changing the business partner that iscurrently being processed until either the method TransactionCommitor TransactionRollback for the Business Object BapiServiceis executed. The authorized user can access the same business partnerrepeatedly.
The regulatory reporting data is not written to the database until themethod TransactionCommit for the Business Object BapiServicehas been called.

Authorizations
You can make settings for business partner authorization objects to bechecked in Customizing for the SAP Business Partner under BusinessPartner-> Basic Settings-> Authorization Management.

Buffering
This method uses buffering. Change and read methods for this businessobject category can be repeatedly used for this instance. After callingthe save method, read and write methods can access the bufferedinstances and supply current attributes in the same logical unit of work(LUW).

Returns
The system returns messages in the Return parameter. Thisparameter documentation contains the return values and their meanings.
If errors occur, the entire logical unit of work (LUW) must be discarded. To do this, call themethod TransactionRollback for the Business ObjectBapiService.

Further information
You will find more information on fiscal year information in the SAPLibrary for SAP Business Partner for Financial Services bychoosing Functions-> SAP Business Partner Data-> Fiscal YearInformation.

Description
This parameter is required.
You can find information on the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element business partner number.

Value range
The value range of this parameter corresponds to the value range of thedomain of the data element.

Description
You can find information on the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element: Switchto Simulation Mode for Write BAPIs.

Value range
'X' Method is called in simulation mode, that is to say, the data is notupdated.
' ' Method is not called in simulation mode, that is to say, the data isupdated.

Default
' ' Method is not called in simulation mode.

Description
This parameter is required.
It contains fiscal year information for the SAP Business Partner forFinancial Services.
For information about the meaning of each parameter field, see therelevant data element documentation in the ABAP Dictionary.

Description
This table contains return messages from the message call.