Actual data created using profit center valuation (transfer prices) is updated in the same tables in CO-PA as data created using legal valuation. These are tables CE1xxxx and CE3xxxx, where "xxxx" is the name of the operating concern.

During data update, the system creates, valuates, and posts the line items for legal and profit center valuation separately.

External billing documents are updated in both legal and profit center valuation.

Since the profitability segment is the same for all valuation approaches, derivation only needs to be carried out once for all the line items. Valuation, on the other hand, is carried out separately for the line items for legal and profit center valuation. If necessary, the values in each valuated line item are translated to the operating concern currency (currency types B0 and B2) and the company code currency (currency types 10 and 12).

Finally, the system issues document numbers and posts the line items. Note that the line items belonging to a billing item are all posted with the same document number. The different valuation approaches are indicated by the different currency types.

This update process is the same for settlement of internal orders, sales orders, and projects, as well as for direct postings from Materials Management (MM) and Financial Accounting (FI).

Internal transfers are only relevant for profit center valuation and are therefore only updated with currency types B2 and 12 in CO-PA.

Incoming sales orders, customer rebate agreements, manually created CO-PA line items, and external data are only updated with legal valuation.

Production variances can only be updated in detail according to variance categories for legal valuation in the operative version 000. However, production variances as a total can also be updated in profit center valuation. This is possible by extending the FI posting (production variances to factory service accounts) to Profitability Analysis. This is made technically possible by assigning the production variance account to Profitability Analysis during automatic account assignment. In this way, the production variances are also placed as a total in an extra value field that can be used in all active valuations. The value fields are assigned via the PA transfer structure FI, as in other FI direct assignments.

The following table summarizes how the individual actual value flows are updated in CO-PA:

You can plan in either the profit center valuation view or the legal valuation view. You need to specify the desired valuation approach (currency type) when you define the plan version. As a result, line items are only updated with one currency type in each plan version.

You can define reports for analyzing data according to the legal or the profit center valuation view or both.