Direct account assignment from Financial Accounting enables you to post direct costs or directly posted revenues to profitability segments. Sales deductions, such as annual quantity discounts, or actual costs, such as shipment costs, which had originally been valuated in short-term Profitability Analysis as costing-based at period-end, can be posted at a later date to the corresponding profitability segments. This means that the costing-based costs are reconciled with the effective costs. You can display both of these valuation approaches in the profitability report.