Business area and plant

what is the difference between business area and plant although we can treat plant as a business area

Plant & Business area are 2 different kind of entities managed by FI & MM
Business area is different lines of operations of a Company. We can create business areas product wise, geographical divisions etc for which we would like to have internal reportings in Finance.
Plants are created in the Logistics (General) module & are assigned to the company code. The R/3 System uses a combination of plant and division to assign the relevant business area.
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    dear experts, 
                what is difference between bus.Area and plant?
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    Plant and Business Area are not the same.
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  • Difference between Business area and profit center accounting

    Hi Frnds,
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