Steps to define Business Area
This is a organization unit with in SAP which is used for internal accounting purpose.This is outdated at the moment , Still come clients using them . Now many people are using profit center & cost centers
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Definition → Define business Area
Select “Standard business area’ and copy it
Update Business Area details as shown below and click enter
and then save changes by entering transport number
We have successfully created business area, after this lets define functional area.
Steps to define Consolidated Business Area
Using this function , we can consolidate two / three business areas into one .
Basically this is meant for reporting purpose.
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Definition → Maintain Consolidated Business Area
Select 1000 and copy as
update you consolidated business area details and click Enter
Steps to define Functional Area
Again this is optional one , But still we can define it for our practice.
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Definition → Functional Area
Select ‘0001’ and copy it
update your Functional Area details and save details
We have now completed definition part of financial accounting . I would like to go to assignments section and want to setup the links between org elements which I have created so far .
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Assignments
Assign company code to company
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Assignments→ Assign company code to company
Select your company code and enter Company details and save
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Assignments→ Assign company code to Credit control Area
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Assignments→ Assignment of business area to consolidated business area
Navigate to IMG → Enterprise Structure -->Assignments→ Assignment of Company code to FM area
