CCA Vs PCA

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

In one of my client's company code, cost center accounting and profit center accounting is activated. Since i had a doubt that, is there any specific reason for activating both CCA and PCA?

And i found that in field status group G004, cost center field is mandatory and in G029 profit center field is mandatory. is this correct?, for the field status variant, which is assigned to the above company code.

And when i am posting an expense voucher i am giving cost center AAA and profit center AAA, then the system over writing the profit center AAA with the dummy profit center. since i am not able to post the voucher with profit center AAA.

Please help me in this regard since it is an serious issue.

Thanks,

Srinu

[Former Member]

Hi

the reason for activating the both cca and pca is business requirement. the cca deals with the costs only where as the the profit center deals with both the revenues and expenses. and besides this, the pca enable to prepare a financial statments by pc wise as well.

2.the reason for not posting to your pc AAA may be the cost center might be assigned with different cost center.

3.otherwise the may be a substitution rule may be activated as such.

regards,

satya

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Please clarify a simple query..

If IOA, CCA, and PCA is active in my company code what are all the fields should be maintained as required entry in FSG G004 and G029.

G004 Internal Order Suppress/Required/Optional ?

G004 Cost Center Suppress/Required/Optional ?

G004 Profit Center Suppress/Required/Optional ?

G029 Internal Order Suppress/Required/Optional ?

G029 Cost Center Suppress/Required/Optional ?

G029 Profit Center Suppress/Required/Optional ?

i have tested one scenario---for G004 i have made all the above 3 fields as mandatory and tried to post revenues to one revenue GL account --and i have given input for all the 3 fields, and still iam getting an error like "Account 300000 requires an assignment to CO object".

The above error should come only in the case of no inputs to either cost center ot internal order only---right?

Please guide me in this to fix the field status for the above said FSG.

Ravi Shankar Venna can you please assist me in this regard.

Thanks,

Srinu

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Any update on this?

Thanks,

Srinu

[iklovski]

Hi,

The fact, that you defined these fields as mandatory, does not imply you _ have filled_ the values for these fields in the relevant document. The message you received indicates that the value for CO object was not filled, though the account is defined as cost element. If you cannot fill it manually (due to some automatic posting), you might use OKB9 functionality or define deaults in the cost element (KA02).

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

Hi Eli,

Thanks for your reply.

But unfortunately we cannot give any default values at either cost elemant level, or OKB9 level.

Even though we have activated PCA, we have not assigned these profit centers to any CO objects. (i.e. Internal Order).

According to our business process is concern user has to key in the values in the earlier said fields manually, since there is no one to one matching between IOs and GL account/Cost Elemant.

Everytime depends on the transaction these assignments might get changed according to the nature of expenses and relavancy to the concern heads.

Please guide me if i am wrong in this........

Thanks,

Srinu

[iklovski]

No, everything sounds fine and logic. As I said the defaults are usually given for automatic postings. In your case, you simply have to provide the cost object manually as system requires.

[Former Member]

First , reasons for having CCA and PCA together where u may have 2 different structures between CCA(multiple CC code) link to PCA(single PC code). This is just an example of course there are lots of other considerations, so the question is what is your objective in the first place.

Then for your error. Have you checked the Cost center master file AAA is defaulted AAA profit center ?By default if the CC master data is maintained with a default PC then the profit center code will be posted correctly based on the default code.