Deriving Functional Areas (SAP Library

Deriving Functional Areas

Use

You can minimize the manual entries of expenditure for the commitment item by assigning the commitment items to the G/L accounts. The functional area is then derived automatically from these account assignment objects when it is posted. Manual functional area entries are not needed in this case.

Features

You can assign the functional area to other account assignment objects by:

Defining an appropriate derivation step (derivation rule) in your derivation strategy and then carrying out the respective assignments.

You create the derivation step 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 the functional area to other account assignment objects in the master data maintenance by clicking on Assignments ® Edit Account Assignment Derivation.

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

You define the functional area in the master data of other account assignment objects.

If you want to define the functional area in the master data, note that only derivation from the following objects is supported with this release in the standard delivery:

G/L account
Cost center
Internal order

For more information on functional areas in internal orders, see Functional Area in Internal Orders.

WBS element

If you want to derive the functional area from the master data of these objects, you must transfer the derivation steps delivered by SAP (Functional area from G/L account, Functional area from cost center, Functional area from internal order and functional area from WBS element) to your derivation strategy. You make the settings in Customizing of Funds Management Government by clicking on Master Data ® Assignments to Account Assignments of Different Components ® Select Derivation Rule.

You can derive the functional area from the master data of the following objects by defining the corresponding derivation steps in your derivation strategy with the Derivation Step Type Enhancement.

Cost element
Cost center
Orders

Sales order with make-to-order and requirements class
Maintenance, service and QM order
Production order; product cost collector and cost object hierarchy

Networks

Network header
Network activity

You can also define the functional area in the order type, the project profile, the project definition and in the network type. When you create the corresponding master data (for example order, network), the functional area is displayed as the default value.

Note

If you use the functional area as an independent account assignment object in asset accounting, you must define the functional area in the asset (sub-asset). If this is the case please take note of the special account assignment features described under Fund/Functional Area as Account Assignment Objects in Asset Accounting.