Check Active Value Flows of Actual Data (SAP Library - Profitability Analysis)

Check Active Value Flows of Actual Data

To be able to compare your plan data with your actual data in CO-PA, you should orient your planning toward reflecting the flows of actual values in your system. Pay particular attention to the following:

Plan your value fields in a way that reflects the actual value flows. For an overview of the flow of actual values, choose Tools -> Analysis -> Check Customizing Settings.

If you want to assess costs, allocate activities indirectly from cost centers, or settle planning data from orders or projects, check the following activation parameters for actual data:

Check whether the desired form of Profitability Analysis is active (choose Actual Flows of Values -> Activate Profitability Analysis).

Check whether the actual data in your system is stored in both the operating concern currency and the company code currency, and whether you consequently want to plan in the company code currency as well. If so, you need to define plan versions and planning layouts for this purpose.
Structures -> Define Operating Concern -> Maintain Operating Concern -> Attributes -> Display.

Check whether the data in your system is stored using profit center valuation as well as legal valuation, and whether you need to reflect this in planning as well. If so, you have to define special plan versions and planning layouts for this as well.
Actual Flows of Values -> Multiple Valuation Approaches/Transfer Prices -> Activate Profit Center Valuation).