Functionality

Service Charge Settlement/Master Settlement Units
This determines the type of settlement for the service chargesettlement. It defines:

• The settlement period (settlement periods/settlement variants)


• The type of service charges (hot water supply)


• The participating settlement units

Various service charges affecting several settlement units are billedby the supplier in one invoice, for instance heating expenses and hotwater costs. The costs have to be distributed to the correct settlementunits according to a distribution key.
For the pre-distribution of costs, you have to define specialsettlement units, so-called "master settlement units" (MSU). Thesemaster settlement units have subordinate standard settlement units(SU). The costs that are posted to the master settlement units areposted to the participating settlement units in the service chargesettlement and are considered in further settlements.

Example
A service company responsible for external heating expense settlementscarries out the regular reading of the consumption gauges. The costsfor heating (gas, maintenance, chimney sweeping) are incurred for theentire house/settlement object.
An operator of a commercial center has rented sections of his premises.Each of these rental units have their own electricity meters, recordingonly the consumption of that particular tenant. The landlord only knowsthe total consumption and the costs incurred.


• Problem:

How does the landlord apportion the costs to the tenants?
Data required:

• Settlement unit (master settlement unit)


• New total of equivalence figures


• Table with subordinate settlement units and their equivalence figures


• Valid-from date.

Description
New total of the equivalence numbers, their unit of measurement and theobject number for posting the remaining amount for the master SU

Description
Table with the return parameters

Description
Table with the lower-level settlement units, their equivalence numbersand the valid-from date