Mistake in creating cost elements

Question

Dear Guru's,
By mistake, Sale revenue GL accounts have been created as cost elements under "01" category instead of 11 category.
Due to this mistake, Sales values are not flowing to COPA,
Please help me in this regard, how to correct it.
Regards
Anuj

Answer 1

Hello,
If you have dependent data (actual and/or planning data) on the cost
element for the fiscal year there is no way to change the category type
until the next fiscal year. This is to prevent inconsistency in the data
for a given fiscal year.
What I can advise is to change the validity period of the cost element
as of the next fiscal year in KA02 to change the master data in
relation to the cost element type. This should be no problem.
In case you need to execute this change for periods where you already ha
postings on the cost element, all the previous postings to this cost ele
within the fiscal year need to be reversed or deleted. In most cases thi
not easily possible - so it mainly depends on how many postings you have
made to this cost element. In case you can remove the previous CO-docume
use note 175522 by deleting the postings with report ZKACOR21.
Delete all the actual postings for the particular cost element\fiscal
year combination so that there are no dependant entries in the CO tables
There are entries in the following tables COEP, COSP, COSS and
COKA.
Notes 37093, & 38955 that explain how to delete cost elements
where there is dependent data.
"the cost element can only be deleted, if you delete first the entries
of following tables: COEP (CO object:  period-related line items),
and with the information document number and line item of COEP you can
delete the entries in table COBK (CO Object: Document header). The name
of the summarized table is COSP (CO Object:  Cost Totals - External Post
ings). The last table is the most important one it is the control table.
The Transaction KA04 will select this table before deleting a cost elem
ent. Its name is COKA. If you delete all entries it should be possible
to delete your cost element."
Even if the COEP table line items are 'zeroed out, they are still
considered as line items. Please review your COEP table.  If there
is a posting to the cost element, you can reverse the posting so that
that the cost element has a zero balance, ('zeroed out'). Then please
review attached note 175522 and try running report RKACOR21 described
in the note. Please try this in your test system first.
Please try this way to delete table COKA/COSP entries:
-run report:RKACOR20(refer to note 45122) to delete the CO documents
for the GL doc and its reversal document
-run report:RKPLNC27 (refer to note 549760) to delete zero records in
table COSP (with parameters:object number,fiscal year,version)
-Then run report:RKPLNC25 to delete dependency record in table COKA.
br, Guido