Profit Center issue when executing GR55

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I was reported by the business users that they see transactions with the Dummy Profit Centers when they run report for Balance Sheet and P&L Statements. They dont want to see any Dummy Profit Center Report Transactions in their financial statementsin both BSand P&LStatements.

For example a number of Documents posted against same G/L account and few of them have dummy profit centers, users doesn't want to see them.

I already checked in tables BSAD,BSID, BSIS,BSAD, BKPF,BSEG

TCodes: FAGL3KEH (No default profit centers allocated to anyone of the company codes), FBL3N, FBL5N, VF03

So we know that there is issue but I need to know the process to find it.

Can anyone help me out the procedure to find out the issue. This is very high priority issue.

Thanks,

Andy Roger

[Former Member]

Refer to the IMG Activity Documentation for the following IMG Node.

Financial Accounting (New) -> General Ledger Accounting (New) -> Master Data -> Profit Center -> Create Dummy Profit Center

Here is the documentation:

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Create Dummy Profit Center

This function lets you create the dummy profit center for the current controlling area.

The dummy profit center is updated in data transfers whenever the object to which the data was originally posted (cost center, order, and so on) is not assigned to a profit center. This ensures that the data in Profit Center Accounting is complete. You can later send the data on the dummy profit center to the other profit centers using assessment or distribution.

You create the master record for the dummy profit center using this special transaction. To change or display it, use the normal profit center maintenance functions.

The name of the dummy profit center is displayed in the controlling area settings for Profit Center Accounting.

Prerequisites

The standard hierarchy must exist for the current controlling area.

Actions

Enter the name of the dummy profit center. The rest of the steps are the same as when you create a normal profit center.

Choose the function Extras -> Set controlling area first to make sure that the correct controlling area is set.

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I am guessing this is where your dummy profit center postings are coming from (a cost center / order or some other account assignment object that is not assigned to a profit center). It should be mandatory (in your month-end close) to run reports on dummy profit center(s) and move balances, if any, to the real profit center, before you pull financial statements.