Credit control area
The credit control area is the organizational unit in which the credit limit is controlled for customers. With its help is displayed, which company code for credit monitoring is responsible.
Functional Area
The function area is an organizational unit in Accounting and serves to represent the cost of sales method. It can comprise features of assignment object as well as document information based on a substitution process can be derived. A functional area to definition is only necessary if your company the cost of sales begins. This is in addition to the usual in Germany so far total procedure, a form of presentation of income statement. The total cost method shows the total cost of a period related cost while the cost of sales represents the cost to performance.
Financial District
The organization comprises a business unit of financial circle according to the criteria the financial statement and the financial management. It corresponds usually the company code. However, several company codes can be assigned to a financial district.
Plant
The work is the central organizational unit of logistics. Especially in review the areas of materials, inventory management, scheduling and costing it serves as a reference. Each plant has one company code be clearly assigned.
Controlling area
Apart from the purely accounting issues and logistical issues must and business aspects of the internal power supply and transport cost accounting properly recorded, evaluated and assigned can.
The controlling area is the organization unit of cost, are represented in the all-company transactions. To to allow data transfer from the accounts (real time) each company code assigned at least one controlling area be. For the interests of controlling several company codes can be combined will.
Company code and controlling area are:
• The same chart of accounts
• The same currency
• The same business
Chart of accounts
The accounting system is a systematic breakdown of different accounts and depending on the individual economic sectors (industry accounting system eg - IKR, joint accounts framework - CRG). It provides the basis an individual account plan is operational, which includes all accounts in the accounting system of a holding company with its specific Account names will be conducted. The R / 3 provide all the value streams and data flows with the help of the ledger account.
Chart of accounts - account assignment
The chart of accounts is a list of all accounts of a company code. Therefore each accounting and controlling area exactly one chart of accounts assigned to all the accounting and controlling areas that belong together must be identical. Controlling area includes a number of Company codes, company codes have also affected the same Chart of accounts to be assigned.
Built-in chart of accounts in the SAP system
The integrated chart of accounts includes the external and internal accounts. From the perspective of cost accounting is the R / 3 one single-circuit, since
• The cost accounts (cost elements) from the expense accounts of the financial acceptable.
• The transactions that affect the internal accounting, not even have to be covered.
This close link between finance and accounting ensures the integration of evidence and the ongoing coordination of both Accounting systems. Coordination between financial accounting and controlling Financial Accounting and Controlling are using the so-called tuning Ledger balanced. Its mission is to make the data of the external and collect the internal accounting so as to intensify and that they are manageable and can be mutually coordinated. |
