Data Origins (SAP Library - Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA))

Data Origins

Use

Before you can analyze your profits by profit center, the system needs to summarize all the profit-related postings in profit centers.

The profit-related components of the period accounting method (see also Methods of Calculating Profits in EC PCA) are

revenues, sales deductions

change in stock of finished and semi-finished goods

change in work in process

capitalized internal activities

primary costs

secondary costs

This data is transferred directly to Profit Center Accounting from the following components of the R/3 System:

Transfer from Financial Accounting (FI)

Transfer from Sales and Distribution (SD)

Transfer from Materials Management (MM)

Transfer from Controlling (CO)

Transfer from Investment Management/Asset Management (IM/FI-AA)

Note

The topics listed above explain the transfer of actual data to Profit Center Accounting using a number of examples. In those examples, the part of the original posting which is transferred is shown in bold, or the posting in Profit Center Accounting is explicitly shown.

Once you have transferred actual data to Profit Center Accounting, you can analyze it immediately according to the period accounting approach using the Standard Reports in the information system.

To calculate profits according to the cost-of-sales approach, you need to access the characteristic Function area, which is derived in FI or CO. If this derivation is active in FI or CO, the function area is updated for each posting, making it possible to calculate profits according to the cost-of-sales approach in Profit Center Accounting.

Note

When Profit Center Accounting is active, the system only allows those postings which can be transferred to a profit center without errors. This automatically ensures that your data is complete and reconciled with the other components.