Profitability Analysis
The universal journal (ACDOCA) is the heart of Accounting and includes all Profitability Analysis (COPA) characteristics in order to allow multi-dimensional reporting by market segment. The universal journal includes columns for the standard CO-PA characteristics and all additional characteristics included in an organizations operating concern (up to fifty characteristics). If you have already configured an operating concern, columns will be created for each of the CO-PA characteristics during migration. If you have worked with account-based CO-PA in SAP ERP, you no longer need to reduce the number of characteristics available in account-based CO-PA compared to costing-based
CO-PA, but can include all available characteristics in the universal journal. It is not possible to use more than 50 characteristics in one operating concern.
Business Process related information
If you currently work with costing-based CO-PA, you can continue to run both approaches in parallel, by making the appropriate settings per controlling area. The essential difference is that costing-based CO-PA is a key figure based model, rather than an account-based model. Account-based CO-PA
covers record types F (billing documents, B (direct FI postings), C (settlement) and D (assessment) in costing-based CO-PA.
There is no direct migration from costing-based CO-PA to account-based CO-PA. Please bear in mind the following general principles as you consider a conversion:
Transaction not available inSAP S/4HANA on-premiseedition 1511 | All transactions available, but some transactions(e.g. KE27) only support costing-based CO-PA. |
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Required and Recommended Action(s)
Analyze existing reporting requirements to understand how market segment reporting is handled today. Also include transfer of profitability information to other systems, including data warehouses.
If costing-based CO-PA is currently used, analyze what workarounds are being used to reconcile the profit and loss statement with costing-based CO-PA to determine whether these will be required in the future.