Creating Top Funds Centers 

  1. Choose Accounting ® Financial accounting ® Funds management ® Master data ® Funds center ® Hierarchy ® Maintain.
  2. Enter your FM area and choose Continue.

    3. You only store a top center if you want to edit a subhierarchy within the overall hierarchy. For more information, read Selecting Subtrees in Funds Center Hierarchy Processing.

    The system loads the hierarchy graphic.

  3. In the node area, select the symbol for funds centers (rectangle with rounded corners).

    4. In the display area, a selection frame appears, which you can move by moving your mouse.

  4. Move the frame into the display area and click when the frame is in the position where you want to have the root.

    5. The system displays the request screen for creating funds centers.

  5. Enter the funds center you want to have as the root of your hierarchy. The system defaults the FM area.
  6. Confirm.

    7. The system displays the basic screen for maintaining funds center master records.

  7. Enter data as required.

    8. In addition to the funds center manager, who must have been created as a user in the SAP system, you can use the Name field to specify a funds center manager whose name has not been so maintained.

  8. Go back.

    9. You are now in the graphic again. The data is flagged for saving. The funds center is created as a root.

  9. Save both the master data and the hierarchy relations.