Derivation of FM Account Assignment Elements from CO account ass (SAP Library

Derivation of FM Account Assignment Elements from CO Account Assignments

Use

If you use Controlling you can minimize the expenditure of manual entries for the account assignment element of Funds Management (funds center, commitment item, fund and if necessary functional area) by assigning them to the Controlling objects and cost elements. The FM account assignment can then be derived automatically with the posting by the account assignment derivation from the CO account assignment. This means you do not have to enter the FM account assignment elements manually when making postings in other components (such as Financial Accounting and Human Resources).

Th following graphic shows how you can use the assignment from the funds center and fund to cost center as input help.

Input Help

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Prerequisites

Note the following when you want to use the assignments as input help:

To guarantee a consistent interactive user guide you should maintain the assignments from the account assignment elements of Funds Management (FM) to Controlling objects and cost elements for all combinations.
For postings in other integrated components where you cannot enter a cost-relevant account assignment, derivation of the FM account assignment elements from CO account assignments is also not possible. In this case you must enter the FM account assignments manually or define your derivation strategy in such a way so that the FM account assignment elements can be derived from a different assignment. For example, the commitment item from the assignment to the G/L account.
The FM account assignment elements can be derived from the CO account assignment. A connection in the other direction is not supported.
If you specify an extra CO account assignment which is only used for statistical purposes in addition to the normal CO account assignment when making a posting, the FM account assignment is derived from the "genuine" CO account assignment. If only one CO account assignment which is used for statistical purposes is posted to, the FM account assignment is derived from this account assignment.

In principle however, you can exclude a derivation from statistical CO objects. You define this setting in Customizing of Funds Management Government under Actual and Commitment Update/Integration ® General Settings ® Make Other Settings. If you set this indicator, read the note on the field FLG_CO_RECON under Source and Target Fields.

Features

You can assign the following CO objects to the FM account assignment elements:

Cost element (COST_ELEMENT)
Cost center (COST_CENTER)
Profit center (PROFIT_CENTER)
Internal order (ORDER_NUMBER)
Project structure plan element (WBS_ELEMENT)

To do this you define the corresponding derivation steps (derivation rules) in your derivation strategy and make the appropriate assignments.

You create the derivation steps in Customizing of Funds Management Government under Master Data ® Assignments to account assignments of different components ® Define account assignment derivation.

You can carry out the assigning of FM account assignment elements to CO account assignments in the master data maintenance by clicking on Assignments ® Edit account assignment derivation.

If the names of cost centers and funds centers match partly or completely in your organization, you can also define an allocation instead of a derivation rule. To do this you need only insert the derivation step into your derivation strategy. Then you don’t need to make any assignments.

For more information on account assignment derivation, see Account Assignment Derivation.