Profit center lock indicator has no effect

Hi all,
I have following situation:
A cost center X is assigned to a Profit center Y. Profit centre Y has status "Inactive:change" and is valid from 01-01-2002 to 31-12-2008. Also, the lock indicator has been set and the assignment to company code 0011 has been de-activated.
Cost centre X is valid from 01-01-2008 to 31-12-9999.
I would expect that:
1) It would not have been possible to assign profit center Y to cost center X due to the limited validity date of profit center Y
2) Posting to cost center X (and profit center Y) would lead to an error message for documents with a posting date in 2009
However, SAP allows me to assign profit center Y and make postings in 2009 without a problem. The help texts and several notes I found all suggest my expected system behaviour. So am I doing anything wrong or how can I prevent assignment of profit center Y and postings being made to it in 2009?
Thanks in advance!
Rene

Hello,
If you have created a profit center in inactivate status, they system cannot read the details of the same and you are not able to assign the same to a Cost Center.
If the lock indicator is being set in profit center, you cannot use the cost center to which the locked profit center is being assigned. It will stop you at the time of posting the FI journal.
If you have removed the check box for a company code in profit center, it will stop you from being posted to the cost center to which the profit center, where the tick for company code has been removed.
Only profit centers which are in active state can be assigned to a cost center.
If you have locked a profit center and trying to assign the same to a cost center, the system throws the warning message at the time of assignment. But, however, you can further proceed with that.
If the validity period of the profit center is 01.01.2008 to 31.12.2008 and assigned to a cost center, in turn you are using that cost center as an real assignment object, it will stop from being posted the document, stating that the profit center is not valid for that period.
Please let me know if you have any further concerns.
Thanks,
Ravi

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