Business Area field should not get translate while doing allocations in co

[Former Member]

Dear All,

In ecc 6.0 when we will be allocating expenses through assessment and Distribution the system credits sender cost center and debits receiver cost center,the same will be applicable for Business Area also.

But my client is having plant =business area for which they are making financial statements business area wise.

The client wants its business area not to get affected by above allocations ,Is there any method of restricting costs to remain in same business area and not getting translated to another business area.

Example : cost center profit center business area

expenses 1011 1001 101

allocation from cctr to cctr 1012 which is having pctr 1002 and business area 102

expenses 1012 1002 102

So my requirement is the system should not update business area 102

Thanks and regards

vijay

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Dear Srikanth Munnal...

Thanks for your reply.

Restructuring option of cost center and business area was also suggested but the client is not interested in doing so they want to change heirarchy of profit center only.

Another scenario of business area is that suppose i am doing fb60 with expense account in 1st line item having cost center ,busines area and profit center as assignments so system takes the same profit center,business area in 2 nd line item of vendor because of inheritance , but suppose expense is of plant having business area 1001 and profit center 2001 and at the time of entry for vendor line item business area is changed manually to 1002, the system is not allowing to post the document as error of profit center balancing field is there.

Now my basic question is how the system will split in line item for which cost object is changed or else can we write substitution rule for profit center derivation for cross business area transactions?

Kindly guide me .

Thanks and regards

vijay

[Former Member]

Hi Vijay,

Profit Center is derived basing on Assignments. If you have assigned a Profit Center in the Cost Center Master

Data, obviously for whatever the postings that take place in that Cost Center, will be posted to Profit Center also

(Statistical).

In your case, Cost Center 1011 and 1012 have been assigned to different Profit Centers 1001 and 1002. So,

conceptually what the system is doing is correct.

You want to restrict the postings to happen to Business Areas. I suggest you, this is not problem of

stopping/restricting the transaction postings but You have to restructre your Cost Centers and Profit Centers.

It's rather a Business Process / Structure change required than technical requirement in the system by restricting

the postings.

Pls revert back for further discussion...

Srikanth Munnaluri