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Dec 02, 2011 at 04:22 AM

Why we need to activate PA segment in OKB9?

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Hi,

I believe the PA transfer structure is good enough to channel the value flow from GL acccounts to COPA value fields but i am not sure why we need to activate the PA segment in OKB9 further? Technically speaking, the PA transfer structure setup should be sufficient enough to take care of the value flow from GL accounts to value fields. Is this step really required?

The following is the SAP documentation about this step and it is really confusing when they say it is not desirable to activate this setting in the last sentence below :-

Generally, a profitability segment is found and updated in Profitability Analysis automatically when the corresponding sender document is created (such as when you enter FI documents with direct assignment to Profitability Analysis, or when you create sales orders or billing documents). Therefore, it is not desirable to have the system find a profitability segment for all the accounts relevant to profits by assigning accounts in this Customizing step.