COPA

[former_member326595]

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Can any one tell me what is COPA?

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Guest

[former_member326595]

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[Former Member]

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Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) enables you to evaluate market segments, which can be classified according to products, customers, orders or any combination of these, or strategic business units, such as sales organizations or business areas, with respect to your company's profit or contribution margin.

The aim of the system is to provide your sales, marketing, product management and corporate planning departments with information to support internal accounting and decision-making.

Two forms of Profitability Analysis are supported: costing-based and account-based.

Costing-based Profitability Analysis is the form of profitability analysis that groups costs and revenues according to value fields and costing-based valuation approaches, both of which you can define yourself. It guarantees you access at all times to a complete, short-term profitability report.

Account-based Profitability Analysis is a form of profitability analysis organized in accounts and using an account-based valuation approach. The distinguishing characteristic of this form is its use of cost and revenue elements. It provides you with a profitability report that is permanently reconciled with financial accounting.

source : library.

A key integration between SD and COPA takes place at KE4I transaction where the pricing conditions are mapped to value fields in COPA

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sadhu kishore

[ravi_kumar100]

Hi,

COPA is Controlling -Profitability Analysis.

If any doc u require please do reply.

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R.K

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear Guest

CO is Control that manages cost reporting, analysis and control. and PA is Profitability Analysis.

Profitability Analysis. That part of CO where operations will access its performance facors and profitability statements contain margins, standard cost variance, sales information, allocations and other related profit or loss data. This module helps analize profitability of customers, markets and products at various levels of contribution margins. Profitability is measured down to the SD billing document line and is akjusted periodically against standard costs and other costs.

• Profitability analysis, like profit center acccounting is another form of profitability acccounting. However, it is incorporated in operative cost accounting, i.e. the profitability segments in CO-PA are accounting assignment objects and are thus directly integrated in the flow of data in cost accounting.

• In contrast to EC-PCA, where profits are found for areas of responsibility whithin the company, CO-PA lets you analyze the profitability of different segments of your operative business as defined accourding to products, customers, orders or any combinations of groups of these or as organizational units, such as company codes or business areas. The aim of CO-PA is to provide decision makers with information about the market.

• Master data and basic structures in CO-PA can be defined with suffficient flexibility to meet company specific requirements. This is done by choosing the objects for evaluation (characteristics) and key figures to create a company-specific multidimensional structure for analysis.

• Unlike EC-PCA, CO-PA lets you use an account-based or a costing based approach. In the costing based approach, define value fields for analysis. In account based the values are represented in accounts.

• EC-PCA and CO-PA should not be regarded as alternative components. They complement one another and jointly provide a flexible and comprehensive profitability accounting tool, allowing you both a market oriented view and a responsibility view.

• Data Source

o Revenue Accounts

o Expense Accounts

o Allocation of Operating Expense (only across profit center)

o Stock Transfers Across PCA

o A/R Subledger (Month End Batch Job)

o A/P Subledger (Month End Batch Job)

o Other Balance Sheet Accounts

• Data Flows

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G. Lakshmipathi