Even if Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) is inactive, you can create cost centers as rough entries for use in validation. This can be useful when:
Financial Accounting has been imported from SAP, but cost accounting is not yet active.
Financial Accounting is executed in a non-SAP system.
This method lets you specify a cost center when posting costs to primary cost elements. The system checks whether the cost center exists when you create the posting document. You can generate data from the posting documents created by the SAP system for use in non-SAP systems. The cost center specified in the posting document can be used as a target account assignment. This ensures that you can only make postings to cost centers that actually exist.
In this procedure, the master data stored in the database contains only the cost center number, controlling area, and period of validity. There is no assignment to the standard hierarchy. You cannot maintain basic data, indicators, addresses, or communication data using this method.
Caution
You cannot plan or post actual costs to cost centers created in this way.
To enter rough entries for these cost centers proceed as follows:
In the control indicators of your controlling area, set the
Cost centers
indicator to 3 (component is active for existence checks).You do this in the Implementation Guide under
In the Cost Center Accounting menu, choose
and create the cost centers you require.To post plan or actual costs to these costs centers, you must enter the appropriate information in the change function for master data. You must supplement the basic data and, if necessary, the additional data (such as indicators).
You can also transfer postings created in Financial Accounting to Cost Center Accounting.For more information, refer to the Implementation Guide under