Disntinguish between functional area and cost center

Hello,
what's the real pupose of defining func. areas and assigning to cost centers.
ok, we can capture all the costs of all cost centers , fine, but even the cost center will do that and we can report at cost center grp level or at any grp level, but still not clear abt the true significance of it as compared to cost cneter which does the same. Also how should we go about defining functioanl areas
please advice.
points will be awarded.
thnaks very much.

Hi,
Double click on the error message & check the message Number..
Then go to
Spro>MM>Pur
Attributes of system messages & change the Message from Error to Warning..
Thx
Raju

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As required, i have to change the Functional area in cost center master data.
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Transaction data exists; note long text
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A change of the functional area can lead to inconsistencies when reversing documents.
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the reversal document may be posted with the new functional area.
My question is how to change the new functional area to the old one after reversing documents.
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For the transactions already posted you will not be able to change the Functional Area. Also if those documents are getting reversed now after the change, the reversal document will get posted to the new Functional Area only.
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Double click on the error message & check the message Number..
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Can any body explain about difference between business area and profit center accounting .

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Business area will have many profit centers. For example Vehicle is a business area in a company. Vehicle can be cars and Bikes etc. Here Vehicle is business area and Cars and Bike are profit centers. In broad Vehicle is a profit center. But as it has sub areas those are profit centers. So profit centers cannot be replaced with business area and vice versa. We can replace business area by Profit centre, only condition is that it should be in same controlling area. The business area is more like a business unit of a company. You can have multiple profit centers within a business area.
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1: a P&L statement does not only contain cost-center related postings, you can have different CO-objects (Internal order, WBS-Element,...)but all of them contain the functional area in its master record.
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<b>Pls Send Some Good Doc's on Business Area and Cost Center.
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Hello
Check these help links
For Business area:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/5f/1fac7c4aee11d189740000e8322d00/frameset.htm
For Cost Center
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/0b/2a623f507d11d18ee90000e8366fc2/frameset.htm
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Hi,
Business Area determines where the revenue should be allocated when you sell a material or a service.
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HI
Read below
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centers, materials, etc can be used for profit center
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Business Area - Business area forms an important part of
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is also used for to know the profits as aProduct
wise,Segment wise,geographical location wise.If anything
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Ajay,
Thanks for your reply.
Actually this is a requirement for our BW system. I checked all the records to find their OBJNR start with "OR", but we need to get the function area information. Do you know how can I get that?
The link below listed all the fields we have on BW side, actually it has function area, but it returns blank, we tried to apply one OSS note in the source ECC system, but still no value returned for this field. So we have to find another way to get the function area.
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When we use Profit center what is the necessity to go in for Functional area ?
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Go through this link your required information can be available
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