Business Area & Segment

Dear Friends,
Can any one tell me what is the basic differnce between Business Area and Segment in ECC 6
Thanks & Regards
Raj

Hi,
The Business area & segment are used for the legal reporting of your account standards,
The Business area you can define & used in all the posting transaction & Accounting standard report can be derived from the business area.
Where as the Segment is defined and attached in the profitcenter master data.So whenever the posting against profitcenter will accumulated in Segment & Accounting standard report can be derived.
Regards,
Raj

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