Cost Center Posting on the Balance Sheet

[Former Member]

I'm at a client that does not have New GL active.  They want to use the cost center field on the balance sheet for informational purposes only.  It won't be connected to CO.  They are on the latest version of SAP ECC.  I have done this at other clients and it worked fine.  My question is if we start using the field and say a year or 2 from now they activate NEW GL, are there any implications of having these postings out there?

Any experience with this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Jim

[iklovski]

Hi,

There is no problem whatsoever of using cost centre as informative field on balance sheet accounts.

Regards,

Eli

[vivek_srivastava12]

Hi Jim,

The same type of issue I have in my project.

I will never never recommend opening CC field for Balance Sheet Item. This will create lot of problem in future such as if client start using CO then their CO reports will go for toss.

I will strongly recommend two option:

1. Use any one of the free fields such as ref Key 1, 2 or 3, Text Field or Assignment

2. Create a Z field , add it in coding block and update this value in BSEG table

Hope this help!!!

Br,Vivek