Problem in changing business area in asset master record - urgent

I am facing this problem while trying to change the cost center of an asset to another cost center belonging to a different business area. We are on ECC 6.0.
I have activated time independent management of organizational units for my company code, and business area and cost center field is becoming editable. But when I try to change the cost center, the system asks whether I want to overwrite existing time dependent data. When I click "No", it asks to enter the validity start date for the new cost center.
Here is where the problem comes. When I try to save the asset, the system tries to generate a FI posting, and cannot find the profit center (made mandatory in document splitting).
I have checked in debugging (in a separate program used for substitution) that initially prctr field for bseg is populated, but in spite of that while posting the document, the system cannot determine the profit center.
If any one has faced this problem and knows the solution, kindly help.

Pls check if you have maintained profit centers under General Ledger Accounting (New) > Master Data> Profit Center--> Assign Default Profit Center to Accounts
Rgds
Nitika
Edited by: Nitika Bali on Mar 28, 2008 10:39 AM
Edited by: Nitika Bali on Mar 28, 2008 10:40 AM

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