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Irrespective of whether posting integration is active or whether you want to copy plan data from Controlling (CO) to Funds Management, the following prerequisites apply:

You make this assignment in the Customizing of Enterprise Structure by choosing Assignment ® Financial Accounting ® Controlling Area ® Assign FM Area.

To activate company codes, go to the Customizing of Funds Management Government and choose Actuals and Commitments Update/Integration ® Activate/Deactivate Funds Management.

To do this, you define the relevant derivation steps in your derivation strategy and then make the necessary 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.

For more information about account assignment derivation, see Account Assignment Derivation and Deriving FM Account Assignment Elements from CO Account Assignments.

These additional prerequisites apply for posting integration:

Customizing

You activate the CO posting integration in two steps in Customizing of Funds Management Government:

  1. You select the business transaction for integration under Actual and Commitment Update/Integration ® Integration ® Integration of Costs and Project Controlling ® Select Business Transaction for Integration. You can activate either all the business transactions or only the ones relevant to you.
  2. You activate the integration under Actual and Commitment Update/Integration ® Integration ® Integration of Costs and Project Controlling ® Activate Integration of Costs and Project Controlling.

When posting integration is active, you should avoid the manual entry of funds centers and commitment items when posting business transactions. Therefore, the funds center and commitment item fields should not accept input on the posting screens. One way of doing this is by hiding these fields in field status control in the Customizing of Financial Accounting.

Definitive derivation of funds center and commitment item from CO object and cost element

You should configure your derivation steps in a such way that the funds center and commitment item are definitively derived from a CO object and the cost element. By doing this, you ensure that a funds center or commitment item other than the one determined in the derivation logic cannot be assigned by a manual entry. To do this, define the Copy new value, even if new value is entered field attribute for the target field, by first choosing This graphic is explained in the accompanying text for the target field, then Copy new values, even if new value is entered.

For more information on defining field attributes, see Controlling the Processing of Derivation Steps.

Secondary Cost Elements

You should assign a special commitment item to each of the secondary cost elements in Cost Accounting. This commitment item must not be assigned to a G/L account in Financial Accounting. The advantage of this procedure is that, in the Information System, you can differentiate whether the debits come from primary postings or clearing items in Controlling.

Caution

These two components comprise different views of the same business processes. Consequently, SAP would like to point out that actuals and commitments data is updated quite differently in Controlling and Funds Management (as a result of the different requirements for internal cost accounting and budget control). For examples, see Integration with Cost and Project Controlling.

If you want to make the update of actuals and commitments data in Funds Management more like the update procedure in Controlling, you must make the necessary settings in Funds Management. For information, see R/3 Note 195122

 

 

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