SAP Note 12097 - Posting retirement (revenue) to profit center.

Symptom

You want to automatically post the profit/loss from asset
retirements to a profit center.
A valid cost center is entered in the asset master record.
There is a profit center identified in the cost center, and the
profit or loss account is entered as cost element (from type 11 -
revenue, or 12 - sales deduction).
Although everything was set up correctly, the system posts to
a dummy profit center instead of the profit center specified
for the cost center.

Cause and prerequisites

The cost center was not entered as additional account assignment
along with the profit center as an optional entry field in
the screen layout control of the profit/loss accounts.

Solution
You also have to enter the cost center as an optional entry field
as an additional account assignment in the screen layout control
(field status group) of the profit or loss account. In addition,
you have to change the flag for actual revenues
via the CO menu - Controlling -> Cost center acctg ->
Master data -> Cost center -> Change - Basic screen - Indicators.
Remove the flag for 'Actual revenues' in the area for
blocking (that is deactivate the block).

Additional key words

KI 235

Key word: Retmt./profitc