You can transfer the following balance sheet items to Profit Center Accounting in the standard R/3 System at end of period:
Payables and receivables
For further information on how the system transfers these balances, see Period Closing Activities for Payables/Receivables .
Material stocks
Assets
Work in process
Even if you decide to transfer balance sheets in realtime , you must first run the corresponding transfer programs, to create the opening balances
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. These are summarized line items.
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 that contains the balance from the previous period (or the difference to this balance for work in process).
You can find details of the different kinds of periodic transfer under:
Period Closing Activities for Payables/Receivables
Period Closing Activities for Material Stocks
Period Closing Activities for Work in Process
Period Closing Activities for Assets