Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
CA-BK (Application Component) Bank⤷
BF (Package) FI Cross-application Objects
Basic Data
| Data Element | BUKRS |
| Short Description | Company Code |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | BUKRS | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 4 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 4 | |
| Value Table | T001 |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | C_T001 | |
| Search Help: Parameters | BUKRS | |
| Parameter ID | BUK | |
| Default Component name | COMP_CODE | |
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 6 | CoCode |
| Medium | 15 | Company Code |
| Long | 15 | Company Code |
| Heading | 4 | CoCd |
Documentation
Definition
The company code is an organizational unit within financial accounting.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0001
Use
Company code in which the accounting document is posted.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0002
Use
Company code in which the accounting document was posted.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0003
Use
Company code which is allocated to the controlling area.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Depending on the indicator of the assignment control, specific validations are carried out for new allocations.
If all allocations are deleted for indicator 2 (providing this is allowed for consistency reasons) and if a company code is then allocated with a currency different from the controlling area and/or another chart of accounts, then the currency and/or chart of accounts from the company code are transferred into the controlling area.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0004
Use
With this selection, you can include or exclude company codes. However, The system takes into account only those company codes in which cash management is activated.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0005
Use
The G/L account master data is maintained in this source company code. Changes can be transferred from here into target company codes.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0006
Use
You assign one or more business areas to this company code that can be posted to in this company code.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
During automatic creation of consolidation units for business consolidation, the system interprets the company code/business area assignments from the Financial Accounting (FI) organizational units and during integrated data transfer to Consolidation.
If you implement business area consolidation, you can specify during your consolidation preparations that the assignments you enter here are checked at time of posting.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0009
Use
Dependencies
The system uses the selection criteria entered here to select and display dunning notices. If you are in the change function, the system blocks the dunning notices you have selected so they cannot be processed by another user. Use the selection criteria to divide long dunning lists between different users.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0010
Use
Allows a limitation of the company codes.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0011
Use
With external documents: specify sending company code
With other forms of document: specify company code
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0050
Use
Property can be assigned to an entry in the real estate register. The company code of the assigned property is entered in this field.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0600
Use
Each order must be assigned to a company code at organizational level. The various company code settings also apply to the order.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
You cannot change the company code once costs have been posted to the order.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 0999
Use
Assignment of controlling area and company code is made within Customizing. A controlling area can be assigned to one or more company codes.
A cost center must be assigned to a company code within the framework of master data maintenance, since the assignment of the controlling area to a company code is not necessarily unique. All company codes belonging to the controlling area can be assigned, in addition to being displayed with the Expanded Help function. If an empty window appears here, no company codes are assigned to the controlling area.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Note
Field changes
You can change this field for each fiscal year. For example, you can change the field content for a new fiscal year.
Time dependency
The data in this field is always time-based.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 1000
Use
Company code in which is rolled. The field is only used for local rollup ledgers. It does not always have to be filled. The following cases are to be distinguished:
- The company code field is not filled.
- If the sender ledger is also local, the receiver company code is the same as the sender company code.
- If the sender ledger is global, no clear company code can be found and the rollup check issues an error message.
- If the company code field is filled, it is rolled on the receiver company code defined here.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 1008
Use
Use this field together with the Business area field, to identify a controlling area for the object you are working with. (Controlling areas determine which cost centers can be assigned to objects.)
NOTE: If you complete the Company code and Business area fields, it is not necessary to also complete the Personnel area and Personnel subarea fields.
Procedure
In CREATE mode either:
- type in the appropriate code, or
- request a list of company codes and make a selection by either:
. pressing F4, or
. clicking on the down arrow
In CHANGE mode, enter a different company code by typing over the existing one, or by requesting a list using the methods outlined above.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 5000
Use
It is possible to make changes at a later date to the assignment of one or more cost centers to a company code during a fiscal year.
To do so, the following conditions must be met:
- The new company code is assigned to the same controlling area as the old company code.
- The new company code has the same currency as the old company code.
Currency translation is not supported at present.
- Only planning data has been posted for the fiscal year in question.
- The cost center is not assigned to an asset, a work center, or an HR master record.
At present, the system does not check whether the cost center is assigned to an HR master record.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS 777
Use
Test data
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS DAUB
Use
Use only in DAUB...
Procedure
Example
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRSMON 0001
Use
Select this option if you want to post retroactive accounting data that affects the old fiscal year to a special period in the old fiscal year, instead of to the current posting period.
For each company code, enter the special period in the format BBBBPP (BBBB = company code, PP = special period) in this selection field. You must enter a specific value in this field, i.e. you cannot make a generic entry.
The following additional condition applies to the country versions for USA, Canada and Japan:
If the work file to be processed was created by the Third-party remittance program, you cannot post items to special periods.
For more information on posting to special periods, read the section entitled Technical Basics of Payroll Accounting in the Payroll guide.
Examples
Company code 0001 posts items affecting the old fiscal year to special period 13; company code 0002 posts them to period 14. All other company codes have already closed the old fiscal year.
In this selection field, enter the following values:
000113and000214.
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRSMON 1
Use
Postings from retroactive accounting runs for the previous fiscal year can be written to the special periods specified in this parameter. In this field, enter the company code (4 characters) followed by the special period (two characters).
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS_CM 0001
Use
In this field, you can enter the company code you want included in the display or excluded from it. You can mask the entry using "+".
For more information, see the online documentation for "Selection".
Dependencies
Example
Supplementary Documentation - BUKRS_UEB 0001
Use
Procedure
Select this field if you want to transfer the balances from the relevant company codes into Profit Center Accounting.
Examples
Dependencies
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20030114 |
| SAP Release Created in |
