Transferring Balance Sheet Items Periodically 
Transferring Balance Sheet Items Periodically
Use
You can transfer the following balance sheet items to Profit Center Accounting in the standard R/3 System at end of period:
For further information on how the system transfers these balances, see
Work in Process
Prerequisites
Even if you decide to
transfer balance sheets in realtime, you must first run the corresponding transfer programs, to create the opening balances.Features
When you run the transfer program for the first time, the system calculates the opening balance via the source application, and transfers it to Profit Center Accounting. In subsequent periods, the system calculates the balance and posts the difference between this and the opening balance of the period in question to Profit Center Accounting.
If line items are created during the transfer, the accompanying reports do not provide you with the difference, but the current balance for each object (material, asset, debtor, creditor) and Profit Center.
All of these programs provide a Management function that allows you to see when what data has already been transferred.
You can also delete any management information that you no longer need. You cannot delete current entries, since the system still requires these.
If you run a manual transfer, the system overwrites any corresponding data that was already transferred to Profit Center Accounting. For example, if certain material stocks have already been transferred in realtime and you want to run a periodic transfer for the same period, the system first deletes the data that was already transferred. When this happens, you lose the information on the inventory posting documents for each transaction. The periodic transfer programs only create one posting per object, which contains the previous balance (the difference in the balance for work in process).
Activities
You can find details of the different kinds of periodic transfer under:
Period Closing Activities for Payables/Receivables
Period Closing Activities for Payables and Receivables l Period Closing Activities for Material Stocks Period Closing Activities for Work in Process Period Closing Activities for Assets