SAP Message BE213 - Activity not allowed across company codes

Diagnosis
WBS elements &V1& and &V2& belong to different company codes.
In principle, fixed price agreements across company codes or businessareas are allowed, but you need to bear certain organizationalconsiderations in mind to avoid errors in the balance sheet.

System Response
If the message is an error message, processing stops.

Procedure
You can switch off this error message if you:

  • Make organizational arrangements to ensure that the fixed price
  • agreements/allocations in Profitability Analysis are not settled toFinancial Accounting
    To do this, use a results analysis version for fixed price profitbilityanalysis which is not copied to Financial Accounting.
    • Switch off this message in the general Controlling Implementation
    • Guide, step Change message control.Enter application BE and maintain the entry for message number 213. Ifyou do not specify a user here, the setting you enter affects allusers.

      Example
      You calculate work in process using fixed prices. The WBS elementsinvolved belong to different company codes. Settlement to FinancialAccounting would result in an incorrect balance sheet. The balanceshown in one company code would be too high, the balance shown in theother too low.