The account assignment logic for controlling objects has been extended and
is now standardized for cost elements and revenue elements.
Orders, cost centers, projects, cost objects, networks, special orders for
make-to-order production and profitability segments can be used as account
assignment objects within CO. From the CO perspective, profit centers are
always an additional assignment to the objects listed above, and in some cases
the objects are derived from profit center.
These rules ensure that the values posted in financial accounting are reconciled on an account basis with the non-statistical postings made in CO. For reasons of upward compatibility, an object to be reconciled, which can carry actual values in CO, is therefore automatically derived under certain circumstances in addition to the entered account assignments:
The CO interface checks the described rules for every account assignment. In addition, separate rules are often required, for example, that an order or a cost center are also posted to when assigning revenue. These checks can be set up using validation. The validation is performed on the account assignment indicator for the Co objects which are filled from the CO interface as follows:
The account assignment types for cost center, project, cost object, network, real-estate object, sales order, profitability segment, and reconciliation object are set when the account assignments are validated and interpreted when the CO document is created. You cannot change these objects yourself. They can be used together with validation to validate additional account assignment combinations.
Example: Revenues should always be posted to a cost center or an order.
Condition: Debit category (field COBL-INOUT) = 2
Validation: Account assignment type cost center <> 0 or
Account assignment type order <> 0.