Functionality
With this method you can read both figures from the financial statementsand from the profit and loss statement of a company as well as keybusiness figures about the company's credit standing for several fiscal years.
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 read fiscal year information only for business partnersbelonging to the category Organization.

Notes
You can specify the amount of fiscal year information to be read byselecting a certain number of fiscal years. If you do not enter a fiscalyear, then the system reads all fiscal year information for the businesspartner.

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.

Returns
The system returns messages in the Return parameter. Thisparameter documentation contains the return values and their meanings.

Further information
For further information about fiscal year information, see 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 fiscal year.

Description
This parameter contains fiscal year information for the SAP BusinessPartner for Financial 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.