Difference between Costing based and Account based CO-PA

Account based is tied to a GL account posting. Costing based is derived from value fields. Account based would be more exact to tie out to the GL. Costing based is not easy to balance to the GL and more analytical and expect differences. Costing based offers some added revaluation costing features

Implementing costing based is much more work but also gives much more reporting possibilities especially focused on margin analyses. Without paying attention to it while implementing costing based COPA, you get account based with it, with the advantage of reconciled data.

COPA accounting based is for seeing at abstract level whereas costing based is the detailed level, 90% we go for costing based only.

COPA Accounting is based on Account numbers; where as cost accounting is based on cost centers.

COPA Tables: Account base COPA tables are COEJ, COEP, COSS and COSP