Actual Postings in PCA

Question

Hi,
Can someone tell me the differences between the following in the way they generate postings in PCA
1.     Accounts assigned to 3KEH table – How they generate postings to profit centers
2.     Transferring Selected Balance Sheet Items - 1KEH, 1KEJ, 1KEI, 1KEK transactions
3.     Actual Data Transfer - Transfer CO Actual Data Periodically, Select and Transfer CO Actual Data, Transfer FI Actual Data, Transfer MM Actual Data, Transfer SD Billing Documents – When are these actual data transfers done?
I appreciate your help.
Ram
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        Ram R

Answer 1

Hi Ram
Please note following regarding PCA postings
1)  All cost center costs actual and plan are posted to PCA based on profit center assigned to each cost center in the cost center master data
2)  All material movement entries - inventory, consumption, change in stock, wip and COGS for a material are posted to profit center based on profit center assigned in material master record for the material.
3)  Coming to balance sheet items - flow of data would be like this provided you hv done following settings in configuration
     a)  Created accounts for balance sheet items
     b)  Created dummy profit center and given default for all balance sheet items
          except for receivables and payables, and inventory accounts
  Coming to flow of balance sheet items
1)  If u have fixed asset accounting - you must have assigned a cost center to each fixed asset master data record.  The assignment of cost center ensures all fixed asset related accounting entries are posted to cost centers and since each cost center has profit center assigned - values also flow into profit centers
2)  Now the next major item in balance sheet are for receivables and payables.  If you are using version other than version 6 you need to do following during month end for transfer of receivables and payables to profit centers
     2a)  First do F.5D in the following menu path
Menu Path: Accounting / Financial Accounting / General ledger / Periodic processing / Closing / Regroup / Balance sheet readjustment / Calculate B/S readjustment. 
    2b)  Now do transaction 1KEK
Transaction: 1KEK
Menu Path: Accounting / Controlling / PCA / Actual postings / Period-end closing / Transfer payables/receivables.
Select the company code and the period and fiscal year which you want to transfer to      Profit Center Accounting. System posts the payables and receivables to Profit Center Accounting under the reconciliation accounts of the general ledger. No FI documents are created in the process.
3)  Now do transaction 1KEH and transfer previous period balances
4)  Next, 1KEI
5)  Then 1KEJ
Remember transactions 1KEI, 1KEH and 1KEJ are to generate opening balances for receivables, payables, stocks, wip etc. 
The balances for these after go live will be transfereed to PCA on line
Coming to point 3 mentioned by you
You do this only if PCA if activated at later stages say one year after go live and u want to transfer previous cost center balances, stocks and billing documents.  You dont have to do this if u are implementing PCA along with other modules
Hope the above clarifies and .........please assign points.