Assign Business Area To Consolidation Business Area

Significance: In this step we assign the various business areas that we want under a particular consolidation area under that particular consolidation business area. It must be noted that a business area can be assigned to more than one consolidation business area in order to enable better reporting and controlling activities.

T-Code:

Path:SPRO>IMG>Enterprise Structure>Assignment>Financial Accounting>Assign Business Area to Consolidation Business Area

The following are the steps to be followed:

Click on “Position” at the bottom of the screen.

Enter the business area you want to assign.

Click on the button next to Cons. Bus. Area to select from a list of Consolidation Business Areas.

Select the Consolidated Business Area you want to assign it to.

Similarly assign any other areas that you want to assign and choose “Save“.

Define Consolidation Business Area

Significance: This is another controlling tool like Business Area, but on a much larger scale. A consolidation business area is a consolidation of a number of business areas that satisfy certain geographic or demographic criteria(for example, belong to the same state, country, continent, etc. or belong to business areas in cities only/villages only etc.). This helps in a much more macro-controlling aspect as compared to business area.

T-Code:

Path: SPRO>IMG>Enterprise Structure>Definition>Financial Accounting>Maintain Consolidation Business Area

The following are the steps to be followed:

Select “New Entries” on the Application Bar.

Input the desired number of consolidation business areas and choose “Save“.

Enterprise Structure – Index

Enterprise Structure customisation comprises of steps required to customise the settings that affect the Financial and certain other aspects of the entire organisation, i.e. steps that have an enterprise-wide effect. These are the first steps that are carried out before any other steps can begin.

The following Enterprise Structure steps will be dealt with as individual posts in the posts following this one. Visitors can click on the links below to directly navigate to any of the individual steps, or can use the steps outlined below in their order(which is the suggested order of customisation) given below, to get a better understanding of the inter-linked sequence that the steps follow.

1. Define Company

2. Define Company Code

3. Assign Company Code to Company

4. Define Business Area

5. Define Consolidation Business Area

6. Assign Business Area to Consolidation Business Area

7. Define Financial Management Area

8. Assign Company Code to Financial Management Area