In the standard system, all postings made to cost and revenue elements are transferred to Profit Center Accounting. Profit and loss accounts are also transferred if they affect operations in Logistics or where a profit center is entered for the underlying operation.
The functions Choose Accounts and Derivation Rules for Finding the Profit Center let you transfer additional accounts to Profit Center Accounting. In this way, you can transfer certain balance sheet accounts (payables, receivables, assets, inventories, and WIP) periodically or (except for payables and receivables) in realtime to Profit Center Accounting. You can also update other accounts, such as down payments on a WBS element, in Profit Center Accounting in realtime.
If no profit center is set for a specific transaction in one of these additional accounts, the system posts to the default profit center for that account interval. If you require greater flexibility in finding the profit center, you can also define derivation rules for this purpose.
Example
Other items which can be treated as accounts in Profit Center Accounting include payment accounts, down payments or retained earnings accounts.
Further notes
For more information about transferring balance sheet items, see the section "Balance Sheet Items in Profit Center Accounting" in the online documentation "EC Profit Center Accounting".