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Q.What do you mean by Period based accounting (GL based) and cost of sales accounting (COPA based)?‘Period Based Accounting’ is Accrual Accounting and ‘Cost of …

Saving variants Before you execute, you must SAVE VARIANTS. The next time you call up transaction KE1B, all you have to do is load the variant — and straight a…

Automatic Planning The automatic planning methods can be used to edit automatically a large amount of planned profitability segments that you first specify in …

Plan Version and Planning Valuation Strategy Below, let us look at an example to show how you can execute your yearly planning. Firstly, some preparations are …

The condition technique allows you to calculate anticipated values using percentage additions/deductions, prices, or absolute amounts. Condition types that are…

Planning PLANNING FUNCTIONS have been available in CO-PA ever since we know it. Planning is a key tool available in Profitability Analysis (COPA), which is wid…

CO-PA offers various tools that are intended to make your work in CO-PA easier or to support you. They are functions that can be applied to all areas of Profita…

We have learnt a lot about the characteristics, value fields, derivations, valuations, interfaces, data transfers, actual data, planning data, report components…

Structure of a Profitability Report for Our Example The structures and tables in Profitability Analysis are not delivered by SAP. Instead, the customer creates…

Types of Errors There are two TYPES OF ERRORS that can arise in CO-PA: Incorrect characteristics or characteristic derivations, Incorrect data transfer or inco…

The information system lets you use the drilldown reporting tool for analyzing your profitability data. The reports that you set up based on the “two axes (matr…

As stated in the previous section, let us describe the information report components that you need for a CO-PA REPORT. Key Figure Scheme You use a key figure …

Duplicate Functions  Now, you see an overview in which the condition types used in your SD pricing procedure are assigned to CO-PA value fields (see Figure bel…

Cost Center Assessments If you want to display your costs that you have not already absorbed in your balance sheet completely in CO-PA, within the scope of per…

Before you actually post CO-PA line items, CO-PA offers you the option of simulating your valuations and value flows in CO-PA in advance. You can call up this a…

Many of the modules in the SAP system now have their own information system. This includes, embedded in at least the standard reports, Report Painter or Report …

The system uses the FLOWS OF ACTUAL VALUES to transfer data from neighboring components to value fields in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). The data is grouped t…

Derivation Rule In practice, DERIVATION RULES are often used to derive a characteristic from a characteristic value of another characteristic. This type of der…

Valuation via a Pricing You can also create VALUATIONS VIA PRICING procedures that are created in other modules such as SD or directly in CO-PA. Normally, you …

In profitability and sales accounting, it is particularly important to have quick access to recent profitability information for sales-related business transact…

Methods of Characteristic Derivation  Depending on the characteristics that you have decided to use in the future, CO-PA allows different methods of deriving t…

Maintaining operating concerns  As already stated, when you create an OPERATING CONCERN, the system generates the fixed characteristics automatically, meaning …

In this section, let us look at the organizational structures and master data that are required for CO-PA. Intent and Purpose of CO-PA In addition to mapping …