Project contracts | Dynamics 365 Finance & Project Operations Blog

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In today’s post I will discuss a very small and useful functionality which is introduced in the project management and accounting module of AX 2012. This is the new “On hold funding source type” for project contracts.

When you use the funding limits on the project contracts, the “On hold” funding source can prove to be very useful in allocating any transaction amounts which exceeds the specified funding limits for the other funding sources present in the project contract. The on hold funding source is referred to one of the internal organizations of AX 2012, which are the business units setup in the company.

Let me now elaborate this with an example.

Let us say there is a project contract with one customer as funding source and one on hold funding source. Also there is a funding limit of $2000 for the customer which is the funding source for the project contract. Take a look at the screen below for such a project contract.

Now, let us post few transactions on the project belonging to this project contract, such that the amount exceeds $ 2000 and see how the on hold funding works. The below screenshot shows an hour journal posted on this project such that the total sales amount exceeds $2000, the funding limit for the customer.

If we go to the project posted transactions and take a look at the funding allocation, this will show how the exceeded amount of $100 is allocated to the On hold internal funding source and the allowable $2000 is allocated to the customer funding source.

Now that the exceeded amounts are allocated to the On hold funding source, you can use adjustment function later to allocate these amounts back to the funding source when funding limit changes after agreement with the customer. The advantage of having the On hold funding source is that, it will allow posting of transactions even if the sales amount exceed the specified funding limits for the funding customers in the project contract.

Let us now change the funding limit to $3000 as the customer has agreed upon the same and then run adjustment for the transaction to see how the amount which was allocated to the On hold funding source, gets allocated back to the customer.

Funding limit change is shown in screen below.

After you change the funding limit for the customer in the project contract, adjust the transaction to see the impact how the transaction gets allocated back to the funding source.

Select the adjusted transaction and verify the transaction to see that the amount $2100 is now allocated to the funding source which is Forest wholesale.