3639664 - FAQ about Settlement to COPA

1. Why does it get a PA segment on the sales order and corresponding goods issue after upgrading to SFIN ? Why do the variances during settlement of production order get posted to a PA segment after upgrading to SFIN ? 
2. Why does settlement of variances to CO-PA create 2 record types if both account-based and costing-based CO-PA is active?
3. What are the related transactions for different cost objects settle to COPA?
4. Does price variances be settled to the profitability segment by default during production order settlement?
5. Why settlements do not transfer billed quantity? 
6. How to post the price differences for account-based Profitability Analysis to a cost center rather than CO-PA?
7. How does system work to send variance to COPA? 
8. Is there currency conversion at time of settlement?
9. When settling a production order, the variances/differences are posted to the default account and not split as expected.
10. Why settle the same order two times, the value is different? 
11. What are related tables for settlement?
12. During processing of settlement, a sequence of characteristics is locked against changes in the characteristic derivation in the standard SAP system.
13. When running settlement for an internal order, the functional area is not correctly derived.
14. How to redetermine the profitability segment at the time of the settlement to CO-PA.
15. Variance calculation.

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP ERP

SETTLEMENT, KO88, COPA, VA88, Settlement rule, exchange rate, Variance, KO8G, CJ88 , KBA , CO-PA , Profitability Analysis , Problem