Data Origin
Use
Before you can analyze your profits by profit center, the system needs to summarize all the profit‑related postings in profit centers.
The profit‑related components of the period accounting method (see also Methods of Calculating Profits in EC PCA ) are
revenues, sales deductions
change in stock of finished and semi‑finished goods
change in work in process
capitalized internal activities
primary costs
secondary costs
This data is transferred directly to Profit Center Accounting from the following application components:
Transfer from Investment Management/Asset Management (IM/FI‑AA)
NoteThe topics listed above explain the transfer of actual data to Profit Center Accounting using a number of examples. In those examples, the part of the original posting which is transferred is shown in bold , or the posting in Profit Center Accounting is explicitly shown.
End of the note.
Once you have transferred actual data to Profit Center Accounting, you can analyze it immediately according to the period accounting approach using the Standard Reports in the information system.
To calculate profits according to the cost‑of‑sales approach, you need to access the characteristic Function area , which is derived in FI or CO. If this derivation is active in FI or CO, the function area is updated for each posting, making it possible to calculate profits according to the cost-of-sales approach in Profit Center Accounting.
Note
When Profit Center Accounting is active, the system only allows those postings which can be transferred to a profit center without errors. This automatically ensures that your data is complete and reconciled with the other components.