Setting Up an Operating Concern 

Use

After defining the characteristics and value fields, you can create the operating concern itself. To do this, you have to maintain the attributes and data structures for the operating concern. You define a fiscal year variant and the desired currency settings in the attributes. You select the desired characteristics and value fields in the data structures. After you have made this choice, you generate the data structure.

From a technical standpoint, data structures determine the structure of the database tables (ABAP Dictionary). These are created when you generate the data structures. These tables are independent of the client, which means they are equally accessible in every client of a system.

Prerequisites

The following individual activities are required:

  1. Enter the name of the operating concern.
  2. Define the attributes.
  3. Specify the types of Profitability Analysis.
  4. Select the characteristics.
  5. Select the value fields.
  6. Save. (This will store the structures of the characteristics and of the value fields in the ABAP dictionary.)
  7. Activate. (This checks and activates all created tables in the ABAP Dictionary. Any consistency problems occurring are displayed in an activation log.)
  8. Generate the environment. (This generates all required programs, update modules, views, and so on, that are related to the tables created.)
  9. Activate Profitability Analysis (Customizing ® Flows of Actual Data ® Activate Profitability Analysis)

Procedure

The following steps do not cause a new operating concern to be defined. Instead, the existing structures are displayed.

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Controlling ® Profitability Analysis ® Structures ® Define Operating Concern ® Maintain Operating Concern

    Transaction Code

    KEA0

  2. In the Operating concern field, enter IDEA.
  3. Choose the Attributes tab page.

    4. You now see that the operating concern currency is EUR and that the company code currency and the profit center currency have been activated.

    The fiscal year variant is K4 (calendar year with 4 special periods). The fiscal year variant is of significance for the documents transferred into Profitability Analysis. It ensures that the correct billing period is used. As a rule, you should use the same variant as that used for the assigned controlling areas. It is only by doing so that you can, for example, assess cost center costs to Profitability Analysis.

  4. Choose the Data structure tab page.
  5. Choose Display.

    6. On the screen Display Data Structure: Characteristic Screen, you find the same characteristics as in the previous activity Displaying Characteristics in the Operating Concern.

  6. Choose Change view.

    7. A further table with the title copy from then appears, listing all characteristics defined for the system. In the change mode, you could now transfer additional characteristics to the operating concern IDEA.

  7. Choose Extras ® Display fixed fields and the system’s fixed characteristics appear.
  8. Choose .
  9. Choose Goto ® Value fields to access the view of the value fields.

    10. Under Data structure, you also see the chosen value fields for the operating concern IDEA, and on the right, under Copy from, you see additional value fields that you were able to add to the operating concern IDEA in the change mode.

  10. Choose .
  11. Under Data structure, choose .

    12. The dialog box tells you that all tables for the operating concern are active.

  12. Choose .
  13. Choose .

    14. If the operating concern had not been generated, you would then have to choose Generate environment.

    If the operating concern is not generated, no postings can be transferred to the data tables of the operating concern. Instead, an error message would be issued for every business transaction that relates to CO-PA.

  14. Choose until the overview tree appears.