第2个回答 2013-04-08
Business areas are used for internal purposes to create B/S and P/L statement or alternatively can be used to meet external segment reporting requirements.You can set up several business areas to which the system can assign postings made in any company code defined within a client.So it may be used to facilitate external segment reporting across company codes,covering the company's main areas of operation (product lines,subsidiaries).It's known, With EC-CS, you can perform legal and management consolidations,the basis for this are business area, organization units company,and profit center.Generally speaking,Europe companies like to output the reports by business area;On the contrary,America Companies like to output the reports by profit center.