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  Creating Cost Centers Without Active Cost Center Accounting

Use

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.

Features

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 Caution

You cannot plan or post actual costs to cost centers created in this way.

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Activities

To enter rough entries for these cost centers proceed as follows:

  1. 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 Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step Overhead Cost Controlling Next navigation step Cost Center Accounting Next navigation step Maintain Controlling Area. End of the navigation path

  2. In the Cost Center Accounting menu, choose Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Cost Centers Next navigation step Rough Entry End of the navigation path 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 Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step GeneralControlling Next navigation step Production Start-Up Preparation Next navigation step Follow-Up Posting Next navigation step Post Follow-Up from Financial Accounting Documents. End of the navigation path