Prerequisites for Transferring Actual Data 

Before you can transfer data to Profit Center Accounting, you need to assign your CO objects and your material masters to profit centers.

When you post subsequently, the posting is made to dynamically derived profit centers (from CO objects) or to the profit center set at the time of the original posting (such as materials).

You also need to create your own accounts in Profit Center Accounting in order to be able to reflect goods movements between profit centers. You do this in Customizing.

It may also be useful to assign a revenue or sales deduction account to a profit center. For more information, see the section Cash Discount Expenses/Income and Exchange Rate Differences .

In the standard system, the following posting rules apply:

·        All the postings made to a cost element are transferred to Profit Center Accounting. If it does not find a profit center, the system posts the data to a dummy profit center  to ensure that the profit‑relevant data is complete in Profit Center Accounting.

·        If an account is a profit and loss account but not a cost element, the system transfers all the postings where the lines contain a profit center. For profit and loss accounts from logistics activities, the system determines the profit center based on the logistics objects involved, such as the production order (for work in process) or material (for price changes or inventory differences). If no profit center can be found, the system transfers the data to the dummy profit center.

·        The payables and receivables from the period in question are transferred to Profit Center Accounting. Other balance sheet and profit and loss accounts can be chosen from a Customizing table. The accounts are updated to the profit center specified or to a default profit center specified in the table.