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Periodic Adjustments

In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), you can carry out periodic adjustments on your data by

• valuating the data already posted using the most up-to-date information. For example, you may have new information about the cost of goods manufactured and want to pass this information on to CO-PA. This function is called "periodic valuation".

• assign postings that could only be made at higher levels when they were first posted (such as the division level) to more detailed profitability segments (such as sales organizations). This function is called "Actual top-down distribution".

Actions

• To perform periodic valuation, you first need to make settings for valuation for the point of valuation "2" (periodic valuation of actual data).

• If you want to perform actual top-down valuation, you only need to make Customizing settings if you always want using one value field as the reference base for distributing the values does not fulfill your requirements. If this is the case, you can use calculated values as the reference base.