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If you do not have these options marked, posting costs directly to the maintenance contract has no immediate accounting implication. Since costs are accumulated through the accounting modules or through the Service Management manual-add feature, the appropriate general ledger accounts were already debited or credited or will be once batches are posted.

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Editing the contract spending plan

If estimate costs for the contract are distributed per month, you may choose to compare estimate and actual costs at any point during the life of the contract and, if necessary, revise your estimates.
You may also have to edit cost estimates if, for example, the length of a contract changes. If a contract is shortened, any months that no longer fall within the contract date range are automatically removed from the spending plan; if lengthened, months are added. When the contract length changes, estimate costs need to be manually redistributed for each cost category.

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