SAP S/4HANA Controlling and CO-PA Configuration Key Terms

SAP Controlling and Profitability Analysis

Activity Allocation and Responsibility

Activity Allocation: You post quantity for both the sender and receiver.

Areas of Responsibility: Profit Center Accounting.

CO-PA and HANA Integration

• CO-PA: Value fields and transfer structure.
• CO-PA / HANA: ACDOCA.
• CO-PA / Product Cost: Cost of goods sold.

Controlling Area and Cost Accounting

Controlling Area: When the controlling area is defined, it follows a one-to-many (1:N) relationship.

Cost Accounting: Allocation structure.

Cost Center Management

• Cost Center: Tracing factor and cost center category. It is a structure to which all the cost centers within a hierarchy are assigned. Includes assessment and CO version.
• Cost Center/Internal Order: Real internal order and real cost center.
• Cost Center/Profit Center: The validity period of the profit center must be shorter than that of the cost center.

Costing and Valuation

• Cost Component: Costing variant.
• Cost Controlling: Define cost center categories.
• Cost Estimate: Reference variant and the cost component structure.
• Cost Fluctuations: Accrual calculation.
• Cost Object / Product Cost: Variance calculation.
• Cost-Based Percentage: Running the results analysis.
• Costing Sheet: Valuation variant and cost accounts with quantity.

SAP Fiori and HANA Technicals

Fiori: Tile catalog.

• HANA: Account type and reporting on a high level of detail. Assign both cycles to the same cycle run group and PA transfer structure.
• HANA / Accounting: Controlling Area.
• HANA / Controlling Area: The company code and area currency.
• HANA / Price Solution: Parallel valuation for legal and profit center valuation.
• HANA / Profit Center: Profit Center Accounting, business planning, and consolidation. They are defined in separate controlling areas.
• HANA / Profitability Analysis: CE1XXXX and plan data from table CE2XXXX by defining the characteristic.

Internal Orders and Ledgers

• Internal Order: Budget profile, allocation structure, and simultaneously post to a cost center. Includes periodic reposting, assigning a selection variant to an end node, and activating commitment management.
• Ledger: The leading and extension ledgers.

Material and Primary Costs

• Material Cost: Use the template, transfer control, and material master.
• Material Master Record: To update the standard price.
• Number Intervals: By business transactions.
• Operating Concern: Client level (0-70).
• Primary Cost: Fixed asset and transfer structure.