Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
CA-BK (Application Component) Bank⤷
BF (Package) FI Cross-application Objects
Basic Data
| Data Element | GSBER |
| Short Description | Business Area |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | GSBER | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 4 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 4 | |
| Value Table | TGSB |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | ||
| Search Help: Parameters | ||
| Parameter ID | GSB | |
| Default Component name | BUS_AREA | |
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Bus. Area |
| Medium | 15 | Business Area |
| Long | 20 | Business Area |
| Heading | 4 | BusA |
Documentation
Definition
Key identifying a business area.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0001
Use
In this case this is the business area for inventory management.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0002
Use
The business area is used when posting to the bank sub-account.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0003
Procedure
Enter the number of the business area to which the item is to be assigned.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0004
Use Asset Management
In this field, you can allocate an asset to a business area. Regardless of how the screen layout has been defined, you must enter a business area if you want to generate business area balance sheets in the company code in question.
Further information: System Administration Guide
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0005
Use
The interest due is assigned to a business area by specifying the business area, that is, all postings are made to this business area.
Alternatively, you can select the business area breakdown contained in the documents to be processed. In this case, you post to the respective business area. Otherwise, you always post to business area blank.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0006
Use
It allows the interest to be posted to a particular business area. If you do not enter a business area, you post to business area blank.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0007
Use
Lockbox
Procedure
Only specify this business area if you want to assign it for all line items for bank accounts and bank sub-accounts for every check in this lockbox file or every posting line on the bank account and the bank sub-accounts.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0008
Use
The business area you specify here can be posted to in the company code assigned to it.
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 - GSBER 0009
Procedure
Enter the value that should in future be proposed as a possible entry.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0010
Use
The business area is only used for payments if a payment is required by business area.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0077
Use
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
When creating a maintenance order übernimmt the System uses the business area as default in the order header additional data.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0100
Use
A cost center requires a business area allocation in dependency of the company code it is allocated to. If a balance sheet or P&L is to be created for each business area for the company code used (see definition of the company code), you have to enter a business 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 - GSBER 0101
Select option BUSAREA
BUSINESS AREA
Definition
The company code can be divided into freely
definable logical sub-areas via the business area.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0140
Dependencies
The business area is determined via the division defined in the material master record.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0145
Use
Using the business area allocation function in the asset master record, the system determines the business area affected for each asset posting. This is particularly necessary when business area balance sheets have to be produced.
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0200
Dependencies
You must specify the business area if you are working in the project system with networks.
When you create a network, the business area is taken from the MRP controller data, if it has not already been determined from the following objects:
- the reference network (if you have copied a network)
- the WBS element assigned to it
- the project definition.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 0600
Use
Procedure
Examples
Dependencies
You cannot change the business area once costs have been posted to the order.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 1008
Use
Use this field together with the Company code 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 business areas and make a selection by either:
. pressing F4, or
. clicking on the down arrow
In CHANGE mode, enter a different business area by typing over the existing one, or by requesting a list using the methods outlined above.
Supplementary Documentation - GSBER 5000
Use
It is possible to make changes at a later date to the assignment of one or more cost centers to a business area during a fiscal year.
To do so, the following conditions must be met:
- 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.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19991102 |
| SAP Release Created in |
