Cost of Sales Accounting

Since the functional area is updated in new General Ledger Accounting as well as SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, you no longer need to use a special purpose ledger to portray cost of sales accounting. When you activate new General Ledger Accounting, the following functions are changed automatically:

Derivation of the Functional Area
Unlike in classic General Ledger Accounting, the system determines the functional area in new General Ledger Accounting as soon as documents are entered. This changes the timing of the substitution of the functional area, from event 0005 to event 0006. For more information about the derivation of the functional area, see SAP Note 740519. In the case of processes for which no entry screen is used for individual documents (for example, periodic processing), you additionally need to activate derivation of the functional area.

Note
You can deactivate the automatic change to how functional areas are derived. You do this in Customizing for Financial Accounting (New). For this, choose Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) Tools Enhance Determination of Functional Area .

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The update of the functional area in CO totals records is activated.
Activation of the update of the functional area in CO totals records offers the advantage that, for totals-based CO allocations in actual data (during assessments, distributions, revaluations, and order settlements), the sender objects in CO are credited according to their functional area. For more information, see SAP Note 764485. However, changing how the system derives the functional area as described above forms the prerequisite for using this function.

Note
The activation of the update of the functional area in the CO totals records is optional and can be deactivated under Controlling General Controlling Include Characteristics in CO Totals Records .

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