Division and Profit Centre Relationship?

Hi,
Is anyone able to provide a definition of the objects DIVISION and PROFIT CENTRE and also what their relationship is with each other?
Thanks,
M.

Division : A way of grouping materials, products, or services. The system uses divisions to determine the sales areas and the business areas for a material, product, or service.
A product or service is always assigned to just one division. From the point of view of sales and distribution, the use of divisions lets you organize your sales structure around groups of similar products or product lines. This allows the people in a division who process orders and service customers to specialize within a manageable area of expertise.
Profit Centre: An organizational unit in Accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure of the organization for the purpose of internal control.
Operating results for profit centers can be analyzed using either the cost of sales approach or the period accounting approach.
By analyzing the fixed capital as well, you can expand your profit centers for use as investment centers.

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I want to print the description of Sales document type and Profit center on output
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If you have the sales document number VBELN then pass this VBELN in to table VBAK and you can get the sales document type VBAK-AUART.
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Where do I assign a plant to a GL account and Profit Centre.

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a plant is not direct assigned to a profit-center and not to a G/L account.
A plant is assigned to a company code (in customizing), a GL account can be created (account master data) within a company code (if its used in this CC), a profit-center is assigned to one/more company codes (profit-center master data).
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I want to know what are the differences between business area balance sheet and profit centre accounting.
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hi,
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My client wants to make the above mentioned fields mandatory while entering any business transactions. viz. MM,FI / SD transactions. He wants to capture the details Business area wise as well as Profit Centre wise.
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How do I know wich Sales organitzation (VKORG) belongs to a Profit centre(PRCTR), which table relation do I need to do to find it, or from wich table do I get this relation because I haven't found anything.
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