Symptom
You are trying to release billing document to accounting and you get KI280 error:
"Define a cost element category for account xxxx"
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Reproducing the Issue
Release billing document to accounting
Cause
In SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, if you post a non statistical SD condition to the G/L account, it is automatically posted into profitabilty analysis. So it is ensured that the complete revenue is posted in profitability analysis. For the G/L account, a cost element category must be assigned. Otherwise releasing billing document to Financial Accounting is not possible.
Resolution
This is standard design. You need to assign cost element category to the account.
Keywords
KI 280, cost element category, billing, accounting, FI. , KBA , CO-OM-CEL-E-2CL , Postings (Public Cloud) , Problem