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3535551 - How does the Account Assignment work for cost elements in advanced valuation - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition?

Symptom

The journal entry items generated by the foreign currency valuation still has value for field "Cost center" or "functional Area" for Cost Element,  even though, the Controlling Object Inheritance Option are set to "Always No Assignment"  for the field in the configuration "104827 Define Rules for Determining Account Assignments in G/L Processes". How does the Account Assignment work for cost elements in advanced valuation?

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open SSCUI Configure "104827 Define Rules for Determining Account Assignments in G/L Processes", select Inheritance Option as "Always No Assignment" for field "Cost Center" and "Functional Area" 
  2. In SSCUI 102639 - Manage Default Account Assignments, assign Cost Center for the Cost Element
    In app Manage G/L Account Master data, there are Functional Area defined for the Cost Element
  3. Perform Advanced foreign currency valuation, the journal entry items generated still has value for field "Cost center" or "functional Area" for the Cost Element.

Cause

If one account is defined as a cost element. This means that it must always specify a CO account assignment. Therefore, to avoid data inconsistency, the value "No Assignment" for the "Controlling Object Inheritance Option" will be ignored for Cost Element. This applies to G/L accounts that are not of the Cost Element type 

Resolution

It's standard system behavior.

See Also

KBA2628966 - Error: Account & requires an assignment to a CO object

Keywords

104827 Define Rules, 102639, Account Assignments, G/L Processes, Advanced FCV, Advanced Foreign Currency Valuation, Functional Area, Cost Element, Profit Center , KBA , FI-GL-GL-G-2CL , Closing Operations / Period-End (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions