How To Fix UCF6804 - Total of changes to investment shares must be negative

UCF6804 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: UCF6 - Messages for Consolidation of Investments

• Message number: 804

• Message text: Total of changes to investment shares must be negative

What causes this issue?

In the <ZK>Partial Divestiture</> and <ZK>Total Divestiture</>
activities, the sum of the changes to investment shares must be negative
for each investee unit. However, the sum of the changes to investment
shares is positive for one or more of your investee units.

If you have activated the <LS>Deviating Shares</> function in the
settings for the consolidation area, the sum of the changes must be
negative for both the regular share and for the deviating shares. This
condition is <ZH>not</> met for the following percentage for the
divestiture that you have entered: &V1&.

System Response

The system terminates processing.

How to fix this error?

Check the investment shares. The sum of the changes to investment shares
must be negative for each investee unit.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

UCF6804 - Details

• The SAP error message UCF6804, "Total of changes to investment shares must be negative," typically occurs in the context of investment management or financial transactions involving investment shares. This error indicates that the system expects the total changes to investment shares (such as increases or decreases in share values) to result in a negative value, which usually means that the total changes should reflect a decrease in investment shares.
  
  Cause:
  
  
  Incorrect Data Entry: The most common cause is that the user has entered values that do not conform to the expected logic of the transaction. For example, if you are trying to record a reduction in investment shares, but the values entered suggest an increase, the system will trigger this error.
  
  
  Transaction Type: The type of transaction being processed may require that the total changes to investment shares be negative. If the transaction is meant to reflect a sale or reduction in shares,