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  • You have created the controlling area and assigned one or more company codes to it.

You have assigned the highest node of the standard hierarchy to your controlling area (see: Maintain Controlling Areas in Customizing for General Controlling ) .

  • If you want to use user-defined cost center categories, you have defined them in Customizing for Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) (see: Maintain Cost Center Categories ).

Depending on the cost center categories, you have entered default values for planning and posting primary and secondary costs or commitments data. Check these default values.

  • You have defined a standard hierarchy (see: Maintain Standard Hierarchy in Customizing for Cost Center Accounting ).

  • Check the existing search helps, if necessary, (see: Define Search Helps for Cost Centers in Customizing for Cost Center Accounting ).