3544477 - No Cost Center Assignment for G/L Account (COSEXP) in Goods and Service Receipts

You notice that for G/L Accounts of type Costs or expenses (COSEXP) some journal entries show a profit center but no cost center.
You are using a Reporting Principle involving mandatory Profit Center assignments (e.g. Funct of exp, profit ctr/seg or Funct of exp, profit ctr/seg, clearing).
This is particularly observed for Goods and Service Receipts.

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to the Goods and Service Receipts work center. 
2. Open the Receipts and Returns view and filter for All Documents.
3. Search for Goods and Service Receipt XYZ.
4. Via View All enter the Document Flow.
5. Open the corresponding journal entry by clicking the journal entry item.

For debited COSEXP g/l account (for example: Expenses for Finished Goods) a Profit Center ID is assigned, however, the field Cost Center ID shows blank.

• Whether a Cost Center is assigned for g/l accounts (Type: COSEXP) will depend on the Account Assignment for the Purchase Order Item.
• An Account Assignment referring to a Sales Document (Customer Contract, Sales Order, Service Order) - will not result in a direct Cost Center assignment for the Goods and Service Receipt, while a Profit Center is derived.

This is the expected and accepted system behaviour.

KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem