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CO: Automatic and Default Account Assignments
Standardized
Description
Automatic account assignments and default account assignments can be stored
in the cost element master record as well as in customizing. These account
assignments can be made in the cost element master record per controlling
area, and in customizing per company code and, if applicable, per business
area and/or valuation area. Both forms of account assignment are evaluated
together during the following periods:
1. Default account assignment is determined
using the company code and account number before the data for a new line item
can be entered (for example, during line-by-line entry of a document in FI).
An account assignment found by the SAP System is then displayed before the
line item entry and can be written over.
The account assignment is determined with the following rules:
- If automatic account assignments per company code, account number, and
business area or valuation area are stored in customizing, no account
assignment is derived because neither the business area nor the valuation area
are known.
- If an automatic account assignment is stored per company code and account
number only, this account will be defaulted.
- If there is no automatic account assignment in customizing, an assignment
from the cost element master record will be recommended.
2. The SAP System searches for an automatic
account assignment if no CO account assignment object is entered in a CO
relevant line item. This is especially the case for automatically-generated
line items, such as price differences, small amounts, exchange rate
differences, or cash discounts.
During the derivation, the account assignment stored at the most detailed
level is determined. This means:
- First, that an account assignment stored in customizing per company code,
account number, business area, and/or valuation area is searched for. This is
possible only if the business area and/or valuation area for the line item is
known.
- If no account assignment can thus be determined, an account assignment
maintained in customizing on the company code and account number level is
searched for next.
- If there is no account assignment stored there either, the default account
assignment from the cost element master record is used.