Validation 

Use

You can use user-defined validations in Financial Accounting or Controlling to represent company-specific consistency checks which apply for postings to Profit Center Accounting. In FI or CO, you need to define a validation rule by specifying a time for the validation to take place and a so-called “key”. (For details see the online documentation on validations substitutions and rules).

Some profit centers are defined as subdivisions of a business area. As a result, they can only receive postings together with that business area. In this case you can define a suitable validation rule for your controlling area. Use the option Primary data with the key 0001. You could also use validations in Financial Accounting for the option Document item for balance sheet items.

For information about implementing validations, see Customizing for CO and FI.