Derivation of FM Account Assignment Elements from CO Acct Assgnmnts

Use

If you use Controlling you can minimize the expenditure of manual entries for the account assignment element of Funds Management (funds center, commitment item, fund and if necessary functional area) by assigning them to the Controlling objects and cost elements.The FM account assignment can then be derived automatically with the posting by the account assignment derivation from the CO account assignment.This means you do not have to enter the FM account assignment elements manually when making postings in other components (such as Financial Accounting and Human Resources ).

The following graphic shows how you can use the assignment from the funds center and fund to cost center as input help.

Input Help

Prerequisites

Note the following when you want to use the assignments as input help:

  • To guarantee that the users' work consistently, you should maintain the assignments of Controlling objects and cost elements to the account assignment elements of Funds Management (FM) for all combinations.

  • For postings in other integrated components where you cannot enter a cost-relevant account assignment, derivation of the FM account assignment elements from CO account assignments is also not possible. In this case you must enter the FM account assignments manually or define your derivation strategy in such a way so that the FM account assignment elements can be derived from a different assignment. For example, the commitment item from the assignment to the G/L account.

  • The FM account assignment elements can be derived from the CO account assignment. A connection in the other direction is not supported.

  • If you specify an extra CO account assignment which is only used for statistical purposes in addition to the normal CO account assignment when making a posting, the FM account assignment is derived from the “genuine” CO account assignment. If only one CO account assignment which is used for statistical purposes is posted to, the FM account assignment is derived from this account assignment.

    In principle however, you can exclude a derivation from statistical CO objects. You make this setting in Customizing of Funds Management Government under Actual and Commitment Update / Start of the navigation path Integration Next navigation step General Settings Next navigation step Make Other Settings End of the navigation path . If you set this indicator, read the note on the field FLG_CO_RECON under Source and Target Fields .

Features

You can assign the following CO objects to the FM account assignment element:

  • Cost element (COST_ELEMENT)

  • Cost center (COST_CENTER)

  • Profit center (PROFIT_CENTER)

  • Internal order (ORDER_NUMBER)

  • Project structure plan element (WBS_ELEMENT)

To do this you define the corresponding derivation steps (derivation rules) in your derivation strategy and make the appropriate assignments.

You create the derivation steps in Customizing of Funds Management Government under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Assignments to Account Assignments from Other Components Next navigation step Define Account Assignment Derivation End of the navigation path .

Then you can assign the CO account assignments to the FM account assignment elements in the master data maintenance under Start of the navigation path Assignments Next navigation step Edit Account Assignment Derivation End of the navigation path .

If the names of cost centers and funds centers match partly or completely in your organization, you can also define an allocation instead of a derivation rule.To do this you need only insert the derivation step into your derivation strategy. Then you don’t need to make any assignments.

For more information on account assignment derivation, see Account AssignmentDerivation .