tab layout

A means of displaying asset master data.

Asset master data can be organized to meet customer needs precisely, and is displayed in the form of tab pages. You can define the number of tab pages, their titles and the fields that appear on them.

table group

A set of interdependent FI-SL database tables consisting of:

• An object table
• A summary table
• An actual line item table
• A plan line item tables

TAN

A tax number issued in India to all entities (legal persons and natural persons alike) responsible for deducting withholding tax. A company can consist of more than one such tax entity, and so may have more than one TAN.

TAN stands for "tax account deduction number."

tangible asset

A tangible component of the asset portfolio (for example, machines, land, or buildings).

target activity

The amount of production activity required according to the routing or recipe to manufacture the actual quantity of the product.

This activity is calculated using the planned activity and the quotient of the planned and actual quantity manufactured.

target cost version

A version that determines the basis for the calculation of target costs.

Target costs are used as a reference base when:

• Splitting the actual costs posted to a cost center to the individual activity types
• Splitting the actual costs posted to a cost object hierarchy to the individual products
• Calculating variances for a cost center, an order, or a cost object hierarchy

target costs

The costs expected to be incurred when a specific quantity is produced.

In Cost Object Controlling, the target costs are calculated on the basis of the planned values of a service unit (such as the planned cost of a production order) and the control quantities (such as the yield delivered to stock).

Target costs can be used for purposes such as:

• To determine variances
• To valuate work in process
• To valuate unplanned scrap

target costs

The costs that are expected to arise in connection with the performance of a particular activity.

Target costs are calculated using the planned costs for the cost center and the planned costs for the activity to be performed. The target costs are then compared with the actual costs for the period.

target costs

The costs expected to arise in connection with the performance of a particular activity.

In Activity-Based Costing, target costs are calculated using the planned costs of the business process and the activities to be performed. The target costs are then compared to the actual costs for the period.

target credit

The anticipated credit of a cost center, business process, or order.

In Overhead Cost Controlling (CO-OM), the target credit is calculated by multiplying the actual activity quantity by the planned activity price.

In Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ), the target credit is calculated by multiplying the yield delivered to stock by the standard price.

target document

A document to which the data from another document, the reference document, is copied.

target input quantity

The input quantity of materials and activities that should have been used to manufacture the produced quantity of a material.

target quantity

The total quantity of an item that a customer agrees to buy from a vendor.

The customer uses a contract release order to release the entire value or a quantity value from the contract.

target scrap quantity

The planned scrap quantity for an operation, converted to the yield confirmed to date for the operation.

target value

In CRM, the targeted total value of an item that a customer agrees to buy from a vendor within the framework of a contract. The customer uses a release order to release the entire or a partial value from the target value in the contract.

In Sales and Distribution, the target value applies for contracts as well as for scheduling agreements, assortments and credit and debit memo requests.

target=actual activity allocation

An allocation technique whereby allocatable actual activities are not entered directly, but rather are calculated by the SAP System using the plan activity input from the receiver.

This input is multiplied by the operating rate of the receiving cost centers and activity types.

tax amount

An amount that is posted as input tax, output tax or withholding tax, for example, and sent to the tax authorities.

tax base amount

An amount on which the tax is calculated.

Depending on the respective country-specific requirements, the cash discount amount may or may not be contained in the tax base amount.

tax category

A classification that the system uses to determine country-specific taxes during pricing.

tax classification

A specification of the tax liability of the customer based on the tax structure of the customer's country.

tax code

A two-digit code that represents the specifications used for calculating and displaying tax.

Examples of the specifications defined under the tax code are:

• Tax rate
• Type of tax (input tax or output tax)
• Calculation method (percentage included or percentage separate)

tax concession period

A period in which depreciation exceeding ordinary depreciation can be calculated as a result of tax depreciation specifications.

The increased depreciation, because of its profit-reducing character, has a tax deferral effect and is therefore a tax concession.

tax deducted at source

The term used, in India, for any form of withholding tax.

tax depreciation

The calculation of depreciation amounts that are allowed because of special tax regulations.

Typically, the allowed tax depreciation amounts exceed the book depreciation amount.

In the SAP System, you can manage the difference between tax depreciation and book depreciation using special accounts.

Using this procedure, you can display the difference between valuation for tax depreciation and the book depreciation as a special item on the liabilities side (reserve for special depreciation) of the balance sheet.

tax ID

A number assigned, in Thailand, by the local revenue department to all legal and natural persons that are liable for tax.

tax invoice

A document that shows a value-added tax item and which is recognised by the tax authorities as evidence that a VAT transaction occurred. Tax invoices are thus used to substantiate tax returns.

Tax invoices are used in a number of countries and come in several forms. In South Korea, for example, the tax invoice is a separate document; in Taiwan, a commercial invoice serves as a tax invoice; and in Thailand, both cases can occur.

In Taiwan, tax invoices are known as Government Uniform Invoices.

tax invoice number

The number assigned, in Thailand, to a tax invoice.

The tax authorities assign you a new set of numbers for each calendar month.

You number customer tax invoices sequentially, using separate number ranges for each tax code.

When you enter a vendor tax invoice, you record the tax invoice number printed on it by your vendor. You also assign it a tax invoice number of your own.

Again, you have to number them sequentially and without any gaps. Separate number ranges are required for different document types.

tax license

A certificate that indicates exemption from certain tax types.

The license code is used to determine the tax type that the license refers to.

tax number

A tax number used for legal persons and natural persons alike (in Turkish, vergi numarasi).

tax number

An identification number issued by the tax authorities to taxpayers.

Each country has its own system. For example, in some countries, tax numbers are only assigned to legal persons, whereas natural persons use their personal identification number as a tax number. In other countries, all persons are assigned a dedicated tax number.

In countries where taxes are levied not just at national (or federal) level, but also at local level (by states or municipalities), multiple tax numbers may be issued.

tax number

A tax number assigned, in Hungary, to legal persons. In Hungarian, it is known as adószám.

tax payment voucher

A form that you have to fill out when you make a payment to a subcontractor in possession of a registration card, under the terms of the UK Construction Industry Scheme.

The form, which goes by the number CIS25, shows how much you have paid and how much tax you have withheld.

You retain one copy for yourself and send one to the subcontractor. You also send a copy to the Inland Revenue or, if you prefer, you can send them an EDI file with the same information instead.

tax rate

The percentage rate used to calculate the tax amount.

tax registration number

A tax number that the tax authorities, in Taiwan, assign to each sales office.

It serves as an identification number for corporate income tax and is required for VAT reporting.

taxes on sales/purchases

A generic term for input and output tax.

taxes on sales/purchases group

An object that specifies, within a client, a single taxable entity for purposes of tax on sales or purchases reporting that is, an integrated company that can be made up of one or more company codes.

The party within the integrated company who is liable for the tax is the dominant enterprise. It is the duty of this enterprise to make the advance reports and annual reports declaring the sales of all the individual companies forming the integrated company.

taxpayer identification number

A tax number assigned, in the Philippines, to legal and natural persons alike.

TDO list

A directory published by the US authorities of individuals and companies with which American companies cannot trade or with which trade is restricted.

technical results analysis cost element

The cost element created for internal purposes:

• For the calculation of work in process
• For results analysis

Template

A dynamic allocation tool that uses functions and formulas to calculate numerical values and the values of Boolean expressions (true or false).

This tool is used for various purposes such as sender-receiver allocations and as an aid for formula planning. Instead of preassigned allocation data, the template uses a generic description for any data (such as the sender object, quantities, and costs). Since this data is not known at the time the template allocation is performed, it is determined dynamically when the values are calculated.

template allocation

A method of quantity-based cost allocation that uses templates.

With this method, information such as the sender, quantities, and costs do not need to be entered. Instead, they can be determined dynamically when the values are calculated using the template.

The senders of template allocation can be business processes, or cost centers or activity types. The receiver objects can be:

• Cost objects
• Receiver objects of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Business processes
• Cost centers
• Cost centers or activity types

temporal method of currency translation

A currency translation method, according to which balance sheet items are translated using the exchange rates that correspond to their valuation base in local currency:

• Historical rates for acquisition and production costs
• Current rate for daily values (including receivables and payables)

The temporal method applies the "single legal entity" theory to currency translation. It assumes that the consolidation group represents a single economic unit, and that its companies post data and prepare balances in the currency of the parent, regardless of their country of operation.

Currency translation must not affect the valuation base of the balance sheet items or the temporal consideration of revenue and expense. It entails changing the unit of measure, but not the bases of valuation and the preparation of balance sheets.

temporal posting difference

A difference that occurs when only one of the two trading partners involved posts a business transaction prior to the date of the balance sheet, and the other trading partner afterwards.

This difference is dealt with during the elimination of intercompany payables and receivables or revenue and expense.

temporal translation difference

The fluctuations in exchange rates during the course of time cause the currency translation of the value of a specifc asset to produce different results in a second currency.

The difference between these two values is called a temporal translation difference.

Example

When translating fixed assets at the current rate, there is a difference because of the swings in exchange rates between the value of the closing balance of year n and the value of the opening balance of year n+1.

temporary import under bond

A procedure in which goods are imported without payment of duty by posting a bond to guarantee that they will be exported out of the customs territory at a later time.

Examples include racing cars and exhibit materials.

temporary importation

Commodities in this customs category include goods that are brought temporarily into a customs territory, used for a period, and reexported unchanged out of the territory.

temporary refusal

A customs status in which commodities are temporarily held at a customs station.

This status can be imposed by the customs authorities, the importer, or a third party.

temporary replacement

Material that you send to the customer to use while you repair faulty goods.

In the repair order, the temporary replacement is managed as a loaner item that is a sub-item of the repair request item.

terminal

A point of sale terminal or register in which a payment card transaction is processed.

text determination procedure

A procedure that determines the text types to transfer to a document and the sequence and language in which the texts are copied.

text item

An item in a sales and distribution document that contains text only.

During sales order processing, the user can enter information for the customer or for internal purposes in a text item.

text module

Part of a service description in a standard service catalog.

Frequently needed service descriptions are broken down into text modules and stored in standard service catalogs. At the time of bid invitation or during the award phase, the complete description of a service or task is assembled from these modules.

text processing

A process involving the use of texts that have been created with a SAPScript Editor in sales documents.

Text processing in SD includes:

• Text maintenance: Creating and changing texts with the Editor
• Text determination: Copying texts from master data to sales documents, or from documents to follow-up documents, according to your Customizing settings

text type

Classification for the texts that the user can define in master records or documents.

Text types include:

• Sales texts
• Shipping texts
• Internal notes

text variable for characteristics

A type of text variable that represents data for the characteristics used in the report definition.

text variable for selection parameters

A type of text variable used to enter information for a specific report, based on the variables defined in the sets that are entered in the report definition.

A selection parameter variable can be a value variable or a set variable.

third-party business transaction

A business action in which traded goods are not handled by the warehouse but delivered directly by the vendor to the customer.

third-party order processing

Type of external procurement in which a purchase order is issued to a vendor with the instruction to supply the ordered materials or perform the ordered services for a third party.

third-party purchase order

A purchase order issued to a vendor with the instruction to supply the materials to (or perform the services for) a third party.

three-step stock transfer procedure

A procedure for transferring stock from one company code to another within a corporate group, consisting of three separate steps.

In cross-company-code stock transfers according to this procedure, the goods issue comprises two steps. The complete stock transfer involves the following steps:

• Post goods issue

In the first step of the goods issue, quantities and values are posted.

The quantity is booked out, i.e. it does not then appear as part of the stock of either the procuring company code or the receiving company code. Until the transfer of title, the material belongs to the procuring company code.

• Post transfer of title

The second step of the goods issue involves the transfer of title (transfer of ownership), meaning that the value of the goods is transferred from the procuring to the receiving company code.

• Post goods receipt

In the third step, the goods receipt is posted in the receiving company code. This involves both quantity and value postings. The quantity is posted to stock in transit, for example, or to "unrestricted" stock. In the receiving company code, postings are made to the special clearing account and a stock or consumption account.

threshold value

A rule basis and a threshold value constitute an exception rule.

time base

A statement of whether the data entered or collected for a cost object is for the entire life of the cost object (cumulative time base) or for individual periods (periodic time base).

time base and exposure to inflation variant

A system object, in Inflation Accounting, that instructs the system at what interval (for example, month, quarter, half year, or year) to adjust any given item for inflation.

It also instructs it how to adjust items that were posted partway through a given interval: Most government regulations require you to ignore the inflation accrued on any partial intervals and start calculating inflation at the beginning of the next full interval.

Example

Assume that you are required to adjust your assets for inflation at half-yearly intervals, and that you are to deal with any new assets as if you posted them on the last day of the half year. You define a TBE variant to this effect.

You acquire a new asset on 16 May. When you come to adjust your accounts for inflation on 30 June, it is the TBE variant that instructs the system to treat the asset as if you posted it on 30 June.

On 31 December, however, the asset will be subject to a full six months' inflation.

time-based field

A time-based field controls whether an additional data record is created for the respective master data if changes have occurred in one of these fields within a specified period (fiscal year, posting period).

time-dependent condition

A condition for which a validity period and a scale are defined.

Conditions in info records and contracts are time-dependent. In the case of quotations and scheduling agreements, the document type determines whether the conditions are time-dependent or time-independent.

The conditions in purchase orders are time-independent.

The system determines the effective price based on the time- dependent conditions.

time-independent condition

A condition for which no validity period and no scale can be defined.

The conditions in purchase orders are time-independent. In the case of quotations and scheduling agreements, the document type determines whether the conditions are time-dependent or time-independent.

Conditions in purchasing info records and contracts are time-dependent.

tolerance

An accepted deviation from specified values.

tolerance group

The tolerance groups represent amounts or percentages by which receivables may be underpaid or overpaid.

tolerance limit

Limit up to which invoice variances are accepted by the system without query.

If the tolerance limit is exceeded, the relevant items are blocked and payment cannot be effected. The tolerance limit can be defined in Customizing for Invoice Verification.

total consumption

The sum of planned and unplanned consumption.

Planned consumption is updated if goods are withdrawn from stock on the basis of a reservation.

Unplanned consumption is updated if goods are withdrawn without a reservation.

total variance

The variance of an order that explains difference between the debit and credit of an order.

To determine the total variance, the SAP System compares the target costs calculated in the standard cost estimate for the material to the actual costs.

Target costs are calculated on the basis of the yield delivered to inventory.

totals item

A financial statement item that summarizes a group of value items or other totals items (or both).

Values cannot be posted directly to totals items. You can only assign a text or a totaling rule to a totals item.

totals record

The cumulative display of all line items posted within one period.

totals record

The total of all line items posted under a reconciliation key that could be grouped according to criteria in general ledger accounting and other downstream accounting systems.

In the general ledger, line items can be grouped if they have the following in common:

• Company code
• Business area
• Posting date
• Debit or credit indicator
• G/L account number
• Currency and value date for G/L accounting and cost center
• Profit center
• Order number
• Project
• Application-specific fields in downstream applications

tracing factor

A user-defined key for determining cost and quantity assignments in periodic allocation.

trade-off zone

The second of three delivery schedule time zones defined in a scheduling agreement.

With the firm zone, the trade-off zone determines the degree to which schedule lines represent a binding order, or purchase commitment.

Like the firm zone, the trade-off zone is specified in days.

If the orderer cancels a schedule line that is in this zone, the vendor can invoice for the cost of input materials purchased to manufacture the scheduled quantity, but not for production costs. Schedule lines in this zone are less binding than in the firm zone.

trading partner

A trading partner is a legally independent company belonging to the group.

transaction

The classification of postings in various SAP application components based on various business points of view.

Example

• Enter an invoice
• Post a good receipt
• Create a confirmation

Using transactions, the data flow is controlled between various application components.

transaction

A business action in which a payment card is used to purchase goods or services.

The merchant is credited and money is collected from the cardholder or issuing bank.

transaction currency

The currency in which an individual document is posted.

The transaction currency can differ from the controlling area currency and the object currency. The SAP System can perform currency translations using a predefined average exchange rate.

transaction currency

The currency in which a business transaction is processed and booked.

The business transaction can be posted in the transaction currency as well as in the local currency. This can occur when the trading partners use different local currencies.

transaction difference

A change in an asset's value as a result of an activity (for example, acquisition, retirement, depreciation) can, after translation into another currency, lead to a difference.

This difference is known as the transaction difference.

The transaction difference is not affected by fluctuations in the exchange rates.

transaction figures

The sum of all postings to an account, broken down by posting period and debit and credit.

transaction group

A grouping that defines the sales and distribution transactions that can be used for a sales document type.

transaction number

A number assigned to a business dealing for identification and tracking.

transaction record

A written record, in Turkey, of a transaction involving a bill of exchange.

Businesses are required to keep copies of transaction records by law.

transaction type

The object that classifies the business transaction (for example, acquisition, retirement, or transfer), and determines how the transaction is processed in the SAP system.

The transaction type is the basis for the assignment of the business transaction to a column in the asset history sheet. Every transaction type belongs to a specific transaction type group.

transaction type

The types that are used to show the make up of financial statement items.

They are used, for example, to show:

• The changes in fixed assets, from opening to closing balance
• The changes in provisions
• The changes in equity

In FI-LC, transaction types can also be used to define statistical reports such as Revenue and Expense according to:

• Areas of activity
• Divisions
• Product groups

Extracted values such as the closing balance of an item can be defined using totals formulas.

For the sake of properly recording the transactions of the current year which influence the opening balance of the following fiscal year, the SAP System enables you to carry forward transaction types to other transaction types within the procedures for carrying forward balances.

transaction type category

A characteristic used to classify individual accounting activities and their corresponding transaction types.

There are different specifications for each transaction type category, for example:

• G/L accounts to which posting should be performed automatically
• Determination of start period for depreciation calculation
• Value fields affected in the asset

The following predefined transaction type categories are in the SAP System:

• Accounting activities affecting acquisition and production costs (acquisitions, retirements, and so on)
• Down payments
• Investment support measures
• Manual depreciation
• Write-ups

You cannot to create additional transaction type categories.

transaction/event type

A key allowing the user to differentiate between transactions and events that occur in Inventory Management (for example, goods movements and physical inventory transactions).

The transaction/event type controls the processes of document storage and document number assignment.

transaction-based allocation

An allocation method by which the costs incurred in a business transaction are calculated from the internal activities performed and then posted in real time to the sender and receiver cost centers or orders.

Allocations performed using this method include:

• Real time repostings
• Direct internal activity allocation

The SAP System supports the following allocation types:

• Direct internal activity allocation
• Distribution
• Assessment
• Target=actual activity allocation
• Overhead application for orders, cost centers, and business processes

transfer

A transfer, in consolidation of investments, that refers to a transactionin which the complete investment, or a portion, in a company is sold to another company within the same subgroup, or corporate group.

transfer control

A key that determines how the SAP System searches for cost estimates for the purpose of transferring the costs calculated for particular materials into another cost estimate.

transfer costs

The control costs and remaining variances summarized upwards in the cost object hierarchy.

Variance calculation passes the transfer costs from cost object nodes at lower levels to the highest-level nodes of the cost object hierarchy to which one of the following objects is posted:

• Cost element
• Cost element or origin group
• Cost element or origin

transfer method

A method within a transfer variant that determines how a transferred asset is capitalized in the receiving company code.

The following transfer methods are possible:

• Gross method - The historical APC (acquisation and production costs) of the asset, plus accumulated depreciation, are capitalized.
• Net method - The net book value of the asset is capitalized.
• New value method - A new value for the asset is entered manually when the asset is transferred.

transfer of reserves

The posting of gain (resulting from an asset sale) to replacement assets.

This is also called hidden reserves, or undisclosed reserves.

According to tax legislation in certain countries, the gain from an asset sale reduces the acquisition and production costs of newly acquired assets. The gain is treated as a value adjustment on the liabilites side to offset the acquisition and production costs. If these reserves cannot be transferred in the year they occur because there are no appropriate replacement assets, then a reserve can be created. This reserve neutralizes the gain from the sale. This reserve has to be transferred over the course of the following years to assets acquired during this time.

transfer posting

Umbrella term for stock postings that can cover physical transfers of stock and pure book transfers (that is, stock changes that do not involve physical movement - the material remains where it is).

Examples of transfer postings involving physical movement:

• Stock transfer between two storage locations in a plant
• Stock transfer between two plants
• Transfer of material to customer consignment stock

Examples of transfer postings without physical movement:

• Release of material from stock in quality inspection
• Transfer from vendor consignment stock to own stock
• Batch splitting
• Transfer posting material to material

transfer posting

The posting of (already posted) amounts from one account to another.

Transfer postings are made when preparing annual closing entries.

transfer price

The price charged for transfer of a product from one business unit (company code or profit center) to another.

transfer structure

A structure that controls the transfer of costs from the cost components of one cost component layout into the cost components of another cost component layout.

If the cost component layout of the primary cost component split for the cost center activity prices is not the same as the cost component layout of the primary cost component split for the products, the transfer structure can be used to specify how the cost component split of an internal activity or process for a material cost estimate is transferred into the cost component splits of the material being costed.

In contrast to the switch layout in Cost Center Accounting, which reassigns cost components within a single cost component layout, the transfer structure assigns cost components between two different cost component layouts.

transfer variant

An object used in intercompany asset transfer.

It is used to specify:

• The method for valuation of the transferred asset in the receiving company code
• The transaction types (retirement or acquisition) that are used for the transfer

Your specifications in the transfer variant can be dependent on the following:

• The type of relationship between the company codes involved (legally dependent or independent)
• The cross-system depreciation area

transit time

The time needed to transport goods to a customer.

The transit time depends on the route.

translation date

The date on which an amount is translated into another currency.

translation difference

The difference in reporting (group) currency that occurs when an amount in local currency is valued using different exchange rates between two periods.

translation entry

A collection of financial statement items that are to be translated using the same translation key and exchange rate indicator.

In the Consolidation system, you can also create several translation entries for a financial statement item if the transaction types assigned to the item are to be translated using different exchange rates.

translation ratio

The (consistent) relationship between the monetary units of two foreign currencies.

transportation group

An indicator that summarizes the characteristics of a material that are relevant for transportation.

Each material is assigned to a transportation group. For example, a transportation group can use characteristics such as "bulky goods" or "must be refrigerated."

transportation planning date

The date from which the organization of goods transport must begin.

The transportation planning date must be selected early enough so that the transport is available on the loading date to load the goods.

transportation planning point

An organizational unit in Logistics for planning and processing transportation activities.

It organizes the responsibilities in a company according to, for example, shipment type, mode of transport, or regional departments.

transportation scheduling

Determination of all dates relevant for transportation, based on the delivery date.

The system uses this to determine when transport activities must start to meet the requested delivery date.

transportation zone

A one where the ship-to party is located and that is used by the system as a factor for determining the route.

For example, transportation zones can be defined according to postal code areas.

travel expenses assignment specification

The specification for determination of the cost center to which an employee's travel expenses are to be posted (Travel Expenses Master Account Assignment)

At present, the travel expenses assignment stores the following data. The master cost center is checked in infotype 0027 (Cost Assignment) first. If infotype 0027 is not maintained, the SAP System searches in infotype 0017 (Travel Privileges) for the relevant cost center. If no cost center is specified there either, it uses what is entered in infotype 0001 (Organizational Assignment).

travel flat rate

The travel costs are evaluated per mile or kilometer according to a certain flat rate for miles or kilometers.

travel privilege

The employee-relevant parameters for travel expense accounting.

travel profile

A combination of an enterprise's travel policies as represented in the SAP System.

The travel profile helps to control compliance with trip rules when the "Travel Planning" application component is used.

The travel profile is assigned to employees individually by using infotype 0470 (Travel Profile) or on the basis of their organizational assignment the feature TRVCP.

tree type

An application for which a format tree is created in the Data Medium Exchange Engine.

For example, the tree type PAYM represents the payment program in Financial Accounting . Format trees of the tree type PAYM are used for creating DME files for outgoing payments.

trip destination

A location (town or city) in which a business trip takes place.

A distinction is made between the main destination and (one or more) stopovers.

trip provision

A guideline for determining the reimbursement of travel expenses and the method by which they are taxed.

trip provision variant

An assignment of trip provisions according to area of validity (such as public sector, private enterprise) or settlement method for travel expenses (such as US receipt accounting, US high-low accounting, or US M&IE accounting).

A trip provision variant applies for exactly one country or industry sector. However, more than one trip provision variant can be defined for a country or an industry sector.

trip provisions

The provisions regarding the determination of travel expense reimbursement and how they are to be dealt with for taxation.

The trip provisions are defined for each respective trip provision variant. Depending on different influencing factors (such as, trip type, trip activity type, trip area, and reimbursement groups), you specify, among other things, the per diem maximum and deduction amounts.

trip rule

An enterprise-specific rule that decides how a travel service provider category (transport and accommodations types) is to be used, depending on the trip destination.

A trip rule can be defined, for example, saying that for all destinations outside of Germany, a certain car rental company must be used.

trip schema

An object used for dialog control and central field control in Travel Expenses

The trip schema ensures that the different entry types correspond with the respective trip type (such as, several-day international trip).

The trip schema contains entries on:

• Trip type (domestic or international trip)
• Trip number assignment (internal or external)
• Default values for certain control parameters
• Certain entry fields for data entry

twelfth rule

An accounting rule according to Austrian law.

Depending on the number of full hours of travel on a trip day, a certain number of twelfths of the daily allowance (per diem) is paid.

two-step stock transfer procedure

A posting procedure for stock transfers made from storage location to storage location or from plant to plant.

Using the two-step procedure enables you to monitor the stock affected by the transfer because it is designated as "in transfer" at the receiving point and administered as such in the system.

The SAP system also supports posting of stock transfers using the one-step procedure.

type of business

The field of business in which a company operates.

In South Korea, you have to provide this information in statutory reports, both about your own company and about your business partners.

The National Tax Service uses this information for statistical purposes.

type of industry

The field of industry in which a company operates.

In South Korea, you have to provide this information in statutory reports, both about your own company and about your business partners.

The National Tax Service uses this information for statistical purposes.

type of reported data

A category that combines a level of detail and an object for the entry of financial reporting data.

Types of reported data are used for consolidation units and, where applicable, for consolidated entities whose financial reporting data is entered directly in the SAP System or by using PC data entry with Microsoft Access. These types are assigned to consolidation units (or consolidated entities) in the master data.