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basic
data
a) Enter a key for the newly created controlling
area.
b) Enter a name for this controlling
area.
Assignment
Control
d) Define the assignments of company code(s) and controlling
area.
Currency
setting
e) Enter the currency type for your controlling
area.
You can only
maintain the currency type if you have set a 1:n-relationship between company
code and controlling areas in assignment control.
You can choose from
the following currencies:
- Company code
currency
- Controlling area
currency
-Group
currency
-Hard
currency
-Index-based
currency
-Global company
currency
If data already
exists for at least one of the assigned company codes, you cannot change the
currency type (and therefore, the currency).
Note
If you are using
parallel currencies in Financial Accounting and you want to use a currency
other than the company code currency in your controlling area, you should a
currency type in your controlling area that corresponds to the parallel
currency. You should not use just the same currency key.
f) Enter the currency in which the amounts in the system are to
be recorded.
The currency you
enter must correspond with your currency type selection.
If you have not
selected currency type "10", the system activates the Varying
company code currency indicator.
You must fill the
Currency field if you want to use cross-company code
cost accounting.
For cross-company
code cost accounting with different company code currencies, SAP recommends
that you use a common parallel currency of the company codes as the
controlling area currency. This ensures that Controlling postings are made in
currencies that are relevant for Financial Accounting.
g)If you are working with transfer prices,
you should save a currency and valuation profile (C&V profile), to ensure
that the data is updated consistently.
Choose Active to
activate calculation with group or profit-center transfer prices.
Additonal Settings
h)Enter achart of accounts for the
controlling area.
If you want to implement a cross-company code
cost accounting, you must fill the Chart of accounts
field.
i)Enter a fiscal year variant.
The fiscal year variant must already have been
defined in Financial Accounting.
j)Enter the name of the cost center group
that is to be the standard hierarchy of the controlling area.
An existing hierarchy can only be used as the
standard hierarchy if it:
- Is unique, that is, it is not used in any
other controlling area
- Does not contain any individual values;
- Is defined as a cost center hierarchy, that
is, there is no other hierarchy with the same name (for example, cost
elements).
You can only replace the standard hierarchy in
your controlling area with another hierarchy, if
- No cost centers have been created for the
existing standard hierarchy.
- The new hierarchy satisfies the prerequisites
described above
Reconciliation ledger
k)To activate the reconciliation ledger,
choose Recon. ledger active.
For a new controlling area, this indicator is
set as a default.
You execute the
a)You can set a default document type for
reconciliation postings.
This document type can be changed during the
reconciliation posting in the posting period.