Profit center reporting - need help

Question

hello ,
    how do we assing b/s accoutn to profit cneters ( profit center = plant ) and how can we capture plant wise positng to b/s acc, like bank or tax accounts to profit centers in order to generae complete plant b/s and p/l statmens.
i am really stuck at this point and trying to find a way how the same accoutns gave be captued on different profit cneters for diffneret plants and how do we identify the profit cneter fot that account ( for e/g bank account or a/p account ) based on the plant.
please let me know .
thanks very much

Answer 1

Hi,
For assigning a default Profit Centers to Balance Sheet accounts you can use Transaction code 3KEH. But this will facilitate to take only one Profit Center for one Balance Sheet account.
For Bank and Cash accounts, I have seen Business Practices like assigning it to a Corporate Head Quarters Profit Center. Later if required they can do some allocation functionality at month end.
Setting up a derivation rule to split the amount based on Plant is also not feasible, because the amount posted to a Balance Sheet account cannot be divided. In case Inventory / Receivables / Payables / Fixed Assets we can use the standard SAP functionality in PCA.
In case if you working on ECC 6.0 version along with New GL functionality, there are more options there and you can use Profit Center Accounting along with Segment accounting.
Thanks
Murali.