Determination of Account Assignments in Central

Finance System
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If, in the Central Finance system, the MDG functions from Central Finance have been set up to map the
entities from the source to the Central Finance system, and if the source document items contain an
account assignment object (for example, a cost center or order), the system first tries to derive the profit
center from the master data of the account assignment object. For example, if cost center ‘0001’ is used in
the document, the Central Finance system will check if there is a profit center available in the master data
of this cost center.

If no profit center has been maintained for the account assignment object, the dummy profit center
assigned to the controlling area will be used.

If no dummy profit center has been assigned to the controlling area, the profit center from the original
document item is used. The system checks if this profit center also exists in the Central Finance system
and, if not, sends the document to AIF (with an error).

This is how account determination is done throughout SAP Financials and this is also the desired behavior
in the Central Finance system (that is, the profit center should be derived from the mapped account
assignment object if possible).

In document items without an account assignment object (for example, no cost center) in the source
document but with only a profit center, the profit center of the original item should be used in the Central
Finance system.

In these cases, the rules for mapping values that have been maintained in the following Customizing
activity are used: Financial Accounting  Central Finance  Central Finance: Target System
Settings  Mapping  Define Mapping Actions for Mapping Entities.

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