Why is the functional area field not copied to the clearing item?
———————————————————————– In the structure of the FI documents you notice that some account assignments are transferred to the clearing item and others are not. Why? With independent accounting units, the account assignment is always transferred to the clearing item so it is also shown in FI financial statements. This is the case with company code (BUKRS), business area (GSBER, BUSA), funds (FUND) and grants (GRANT). However, the functional area (FKBER, FAREA) is not an independent accounting unit and therefore it is not transferred to the clearing item. (Also, the business area clearing account used here does not have any effects because it is only relevant for the business areas.) The CO-FI reconciliation postings are a subprocess. We do not think it is useful with regard to business to drag down the account assignment ‘Functional area’ to the clearing line. All CO reports for evaluations and reconciliations only take the P+L accounts or
