Validation
Use
You can use user-defined validations in Financial Accounting or Controlling to represent company-specific consistency checks which apply for postings to Profit Center Accounting. In FI or CO, you need to define a validation rule by specifying a time for the validation to take place and a so-called “key”. (For details see the online documentation on validations substitutions and rules ).
Example
Some profit centers are defined as subdivisions of a business area. As a result, they can only receive postings together with that business area. In this case you can define a suitable validation rule for your controlling area. Use the option Primary data with the key 0001 . You could also use validations in Financial Accounting for the option Document item for balance sheet items.
For information about implementing validations, see Customizing for CO and FI.