Funds Management and Investment management

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Could someone highlight the difference in Funds Managment and Investment Management. Which cases companies should go for one of these.

Thanks in advance,

AS

[iklovski · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Funds management is the module to manage organizational budget including sophisticated methods for availability controls. Investment management, on the contrary, focuses on cost management for specific programs. These two modules serve different purposes and therefore could not serve as pure subsitutes one to another.

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

Thanks Eli for the good response. I would like to have some more details or if you could provide me some link to any documentation would be great.

What are the advantages of choosing FM over IM

If you could highlight some specific funtionalities which are present in one but not in other would be awesome.

Thank you once again.

Kind regards,

AS

[iklovski]

Hi,

For the first glance SAP documentation will do:

For IM:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/2a/f9f273493111d182b70000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

For FM:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/f0/ca33a5260211d28a430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

With FM you can manage the budget for the enterprise; with IM - you cannot. Because your level of control is not nature of costs (G/L) and organizational/program entity (fund centre which could represent any combination of cost objects) like in FM, but a very simple one narrowed to 'program'.

Regards,

Eli