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Jul 25, 2016 at 10:45 AM

Cannot delete Cost Element in KA04

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Dear Experts,

My question is related to the following Forum -

http://scn.sap.com/thread/591031

Cannot delete the Cost Element with the following error -

Deletion is not possible (dependent records exist in table COEP)

Message no. KS133

Diagnosis

To maintain the consistency of existing data, you can only delete data if no transaction data exists in the change period. You are not allowed to post either plan data or actual data.

As transaction data already exists in table COEP, you cannot execute the deletion in time period.

The Cost Element's "Valid to" is 31.12.9999 which cannot be changed in KA02. Even if I had created another Validity Period and then deleted for this new Validity Period, it still could not be deleted with the above error.

Just found some records in table COEP which was incorrectly posted.

My question is that is it possible to change the "Valid to" of the Cost Element or delete / archieve the records in table COEP, so that I can delete this Cost Element and future postings of the related GL A/Cs will not require to assign any Cost Object (e.g. Cost Center) ? Actually we still need to use such GL A/C but didn't need to assign the Cost Object.

Tks,

KH Fong