Creating Cost Centers Without Active Cost Center Accounting (SAP Library - Master Data in Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA))

Creating Cost Centers Without Active Cost Center Accounting

Use

Even if Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) is inactive, you can create cost centers as rough entries for use in validation. This can make sense when:

Financial Accounting has been imported from SAP, but cost accounting is not yet active.
Financial Accounting is executed in a non-SAP system.

Features

This method lets you specify a cost center when posting costs to primary cost elements. The R/3 System checks whether the cost center exists when you create the posting document. You can generate data from the posting documents created by the R/3 System for use in non-SAP systems. The cost center specified in the posting document can be used as a target account assignment. This guarantees that you can only make postings to cost centers that actually exist.

In this procedure, the master data stored in the database contains only the cost center number, controlling area, and period of validity. There is no assignment to the standard hierarchy. You cannot maintain basic data, indicators, address or communication data using this method.

Caution

You cannot plan or post actual costs to cost centers created in this way.

Actions

To enter rough entries for these cost centers proceed as follows:

1. In the control indicators of your controlling area, set the Cost centers indicator to 3 (active for existence checks). For more information, see the Implementation Guide Controlling ® Overhead Cost Controlling ® Cost Center Accounting ® Maintain Controlling Area.

2. In the Cost Center Accounting menu, choose Master data ® Cost center ® Collective processing ® Rough entry and create the cost centers you require.

To post plan or actual costs to these costs centers, you must enter the appropriate information in the change function for master data. You must supplement the basic data and, if necessary, the additional data, such as indicators.

You can also transfer postings created in Financial Accounting to Cost Center Accounting. For more information, see the Implementation Guide for Controlling ® General Controlling ® Production Start-Up Preparation ® Follow-Up Posting ® Post Follow-Up from Financial Accounting Documents.