Integration with Cost and Project Controlling
Use
If you are using Controlling, you can integrate the cost center accounting and order and project controlling monitoring systems with Funds Management.
These two components comprise different views of the same business processes. Only if the structures required in both components have similarities (such as cost center structure = funds center structure) is integration of the two components with regard to particular functions and business transactions possible.
Here we distinguish between a purely structural parallelism and parallelism in terms of content.
Structural parallelism - input facility
The FM account assignment can be derived automatically from the CO account assignment in the case of structural parallelism. This means you do not have to enter the FM account assignment manually when making postings in other components (such as
Financial Accounting
and
Human Resources
). This way integration acts as an input facility.
Business transactions within Controlling, such as overhead or assessments, are not taken into consideration in Funds Management. This means that any reconciliation between Controlling and Funds Management will always deviate by the activities within Controlling.
Parallelism in terms of content - posting integration
If you also require a parallelism in terms of content in addition to the structural parallelism, that is the cost view from
Controlling
is to be portrayed in
Funds Management
, then the business transactions within
Controlling
must also be reproduced in
Funds Management
. You can activate posting integration in Customizing for the following business transactions
only
:
Actual assessment
Actual line item reposting
Actual primary cost reposting
Actual distribution
Indirect activity allocation
Order settlement
Actual accrual calculation
Actual activity allocation
Data is recorded in Funds Management for the activated business transactions with the value type 95, without availability control and therefore does not have any effect on changing the budget. The exceptions here are the adjustment postings in CO which reference Financial Accounting documents (transaction KB61, activity RKU3).
The CO business transactions can, however, be viewed in the information system and so enable evaluations for Funds Management from a cost point of view.
Prerequisites
In order to carry out integration, you must allocate the FM account assignments to the CO account assignments. You can allocate FM account assignments to the following CO account assignments:
Cost elements
Cost centers
Orders
WBS elements
Profit centers
So as to increase flexibility, you can make assignments to cost centers, orders, and WBS elements dependent on cost elements. You can also make assignments to groups (cost element groups and cost center groups) so as to make maintenance more efficient.
See also:
Prerequisites for Integration with Cost and Project Controlling Integration
Assigning Commitment Items to Cost Elements
Assigning Funds Centers to Cost Centers
Assigning Funds Centers to Orders