For transferring PRIMARY costs to CO, on a real-time basis, you need to have ‘Automatic Account Assignments’ defined in the SYSTEM. By doing this, you will always be able to post a particular cost to a specified cost center. You can also use this assignment for AUTOMATICALLY posting the exchange rate differences (gain or loss), discount, etc., to CO.

You may also have additional account assignment at different levels such as:

• Controlling area/account/Company Code in the customizing
• Controlling area/account/cost element in the master record
• Controlling area/account/Company Code/business area/valuation area in customizing

The system always goes through the ROUTE of customizing first, then to the cost element master record while ACCESSING the account assignment rules.

For transferring primary costs to CO, on a real-time basis, you need to have ‘Automatic Account Assignments’ defined in the system. By doing this, you will always be able to post a particular cost to a specified cost center. You can also use this assignment for automatically posting the exchange rate differences (gain or loss), discount, etc., to CO.

You may also have additional account assignment at different levels such as:

The system always goes through the route of customizing first, then to the cost element master record while accessing the account assignment rules.