1572210 - Changes of Functional Area Not Reflected in Financial Report

• You assign G/L Account XXX to Functional Area XYZ. (XXX represents the G/L Account ID, XYZ represents one Functional Area).
• After the change you check a financial report, for example the Profit Detail by Contribution Margin Scheme report.
• You expect that all transactions on account XXX now appear as assigned to Functional Area XYZ. However, in the report transactions to this account appear in association with a previously assigned functional area. Or the account Functional Area ABC but also the previous Functional Area XYZ.

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1. In the Business Configuration work center access the Settings for Income Statements by Function of Expense and Earned Profit Analysis fine-tune task, either from the Overview (if your system is already live) or from an Implementation project. 
2. Press Edit functional are determination.
3. Find Account XXX and verify that the Functional Area XYZ is now assigned to the account.
4. Open a financial statements report, such as the Profit Detail by Contribution Margin Scheme (Earned Profit) report and choose suitable entries for the variable screen.
5. Add the Functional Area and G/L Account characteristics to the rows.
6. Filter for G/L Account XXX.
7. You notice transactions on this account associated with a different functional area. 
8. Or, G/L account XXX cannot be found in the report as the previously used functional area is not used in the chosen Contribution Margin Scheme. 

Changes of Functional Area assignments are only reflected for transactions created after the Functional Area assignment change. All transactions posted before the new assignment are still displayed with the previous functional area assignment.

This is expected system behavior.

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