PCA - Value flow from other modules

Question

HI All,
Can somebody explain how values flow from MM, SD, AR & AP into PCA. How are the account assignments derived and where value flow is done manually??
Thanks, Ashok

Answer 1

Hello
The following data is transferred to Profit Center Accounting:
·        Revenues and sales input - through assignment of sales document items
·        Direct costs - through assignment of production orders and cost objects
·        Overhead costs - through assignment of account assignment objects from Overhead Cost Controlling (cost centers, orders etc.)
FI
When you post data directly in Financial Accounting, all primary data requires an additional assignment to a CO object.
The assignment of this CO object (cost center, order, and so on) to a profit center ensures that the data is passed on to Profit Center Accounting. The profit center cannot, however, be entered directly when the FI posting is made.
It is recommended that you define your cost elements so that the profit center field appears on the account assignment screen in Financial Accounting. This makes it possible for you to verify the assignment. You can do this in Customizing via the basis parameters for business transactions.
SD
The assignment of a sales order to a profit center is passed from the sales order to the delivery note and then on to the billing document. The change in stock if posted to the profit center upon goods issue.
The following data is transferred from bills and debit and credit memos to Profit Center Accounting.
Revenues
Sales deductions (shipping, discounts etc.)
Accruals (e.g. from rebate agreements)
The profit center is assigned at the item level of the sales order. As a default, the system proposes the profit center of the material in the supplier plant. If you require a different assignment, you have the following choices:
·        You can define your own substitution rules for profit center determination
·        You can enter the profit center manually
MM
All the goods movements are created in Materials Management and, where necessary, reflected from a Profit Center Accounting point of view via a special account determination.
The profit center to which the data should be posted depends on which materials and which CO objects are involved.
The following MM activities are reflected in EC-PCA.
Example: Goods Receipt for Purchase Orders
Example: Goods Receipt for Production Orders
Example: Invoice Receipt
Example: Goods Issue for Delivery Note
Example: Change in Material Prices/Revaluation
Example: Inventory Differences
CO
All the secondary transfers between CO objects are selected and represented in the assigned profit centers.
You can represent the data in Profit Center Accounting by reflecting the original document directly, since only credits and debits arise on the CO objects involved in the transfers.
Also, The system can transfer the following activities from CO:
Example: Order Settlement
Example: Assessment/Distribution
Example: Assessment to Profitability Analysis
Example: Internal Cost Allocation
Example: Transfer Postings
Example: Calculation of Imputed Costs
Example: Transfer Price Allocation Between Partial Projects
Example: Settlement of Work in Process
Example: Production Variances
AA
The system selects all the profit‑related data from Investment Management and Asset Management from the creation, use and sale of assets.
When a new asset is constructed, the data of the capital investment measure is transferred to the profit center of the order or project on which it is based.
Imputed depreciation is transferred to the profit center to which the cost center of the asset is assigned. Likewise, profits or losses from the sale of assets are also transferred to the profit center of the cost center.
In Customizing for Asset Management, one depreciation area is assigned to Controlling. The data of this depreciation area is transferred to Profit Center Accounting.
Hope this gives an idea.
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