Business Area in Enterprise Structure

Can someone please explain the purpose of Business Area/Business Unit in the Enterprise Structure? I'm wondering, functionally, how it is different from personnel area and personnel subarea, as we use the PA and PSA to distinguish between departments and business units, respectively. Are there integration differences, or is there not a significant difference?
Thanks for any replies and help.
-Nick

Hey Nick,
If you bring up the help on Business Area within the IMG, you get the following:
Define Business Area
Use
In this section you create business areas. A business area is an
organizational unit within accounting that represents a separate area of
operations or responsibilities in a business
organization.
When defining a business area, you enter a four-character alphanumeric key
and the name of the business area.
In a client, you can set up
several business areas to which the system can assign the postings made in all
company codes defined in
this client. To ensure consistency in document entry, you should give business
areas the same name in all company codes.
You make all other specifications for your business areas in the Financial
Accounting Implementation Guide.
So as this and Theo also indicated above, this is relevant for FI.
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