Functional Areas (FA) in Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

Dear all,
We use Functional Areas (FA) to separate fixed costs in Profit Center Accounting (PCA). Originally, in FI, fixed costs are posted with Cost Center which is linked to FA. Now we find out that some cost centers missed their link to FA and hence not all fixed costs transferred to FA in PCA. We fixed the missed links, but the main question now is, how can we transfer information about FA for already existing documents? Is there any way to update profit center documents and totals? Or erase and transfer them once again?
Thanks in advance for the answers.

Please see the following SAP note. I corrected my ledger with help of Following Note
1- 106180 (Correcting functional areas in the PCA Ledger)
2-677630 (Correcting functional areas in FI documents)
3- 115840 (Correcting functional areas in special purpose ledgers)
4- 87064 (Reconciliation Ledger: Cost-of-Sales Accounting Problems)

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