SAP Message BE214 - Transaction not valid across business areas

Diagnosis
WBS elements &V1& and &V2& belong to different business areas.
Because business area balance sheets are to be created for company codeV3, you need to bear certain organizational considerations in mind toavoid 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 214. 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.