Function Copy actual into plan automatically copies actual values from previous business transactions, which can also be manually planned. You cannot copy periodic allocations/assignments in actual, like Distributions or Assessments. You must carry these out in the plan. You can:

• reuse much of your actual data from the previous year in the current fiscal year
• copy actual to plan within a fiscal year and across period boundaries

Following is a description of what you can and cannot copy.

• You can copy process quantities that result from the sender side through manual activity allocation or through the entry of sender activities.
• Actual prices: the SAP System updates the actual price as plan in the target version. The system values the recorded activities in the receivers with these prices in plan.
• Primary costs: you can copy only the following manually planned business transactions:
• primary bookings from financial accounting
• transfer postings in CO

• Activity Allocations: you can copy manually booked activity allocations, but not automatic business transactions.
• Plan updates are similar to manual planning. The system updates the planned quantity only. The resulting costs are a factor of the plan quantity multiplied by the plan price.
• Order Settlement you can copy debits from business processes out of order settlements. Depending on the cost origin, the SAP /3 system updates the primary or secondary order costs in plan. The two cases to note are:
• If the target version is not plan-integrated for orders, then the system copies all order settlement costs.
• If the target version is plan integrated for orders, then the system copies only the settlement costs orders that are not plan integrated. You must insert the plan settlement into the target version for the orders that are plan integrated.

• Statistical Key Figures: the system updates statistical key figures in plan just as you have booked them in actual.