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Lecture 3 Introduction to SAP Controlling (CO)

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Learning Objectives

Understand the goal of SAP Controlling (CO)

Understand the purpose, master data and reporting of CCA

Understand the purpose, master data and reporting of PCA

Understand the purpose, master data and reporting of Internal orders

Understand the purpose, master data and reporting of Product Costing

Understand the purpose, master data and reporting of Profitability Analysis

Understand the integration of CO and FI

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SAP Controlling (CO) Goal

The purpose of the Controlling (CO) module in SAP is to provide organizations with a method of slicing and dicing data to view costs from an internal management perspective and provide a view of profitability beyond that of basic financial reporting.

Controlling allows an organization to plan and track overhead costs within the company's specific organizational structure.

Standard reports include:

Cost center performance

Profit center performance

Budget analysis

Goal

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SAP Controlling (CO) Organizational Structure

Client

An independent environment in the system

Company Code

Represents an independent legal accounting unit

Balanced set of books, as required by law, are prepared at this level

A client may have more than one company code

Controlling Area

The controlling area identifies a self-contained organizational structure for which costs and revenues can be managed and allocated.

May contain one or more company codes, which can operate in different currencies.

Company codes within a controlling area must all use the same operational chart of accounts and fiscal year variant

Represents the legal and/or organizational views of an enterprise and it forms a framework that supports the activities of a business in the manner desired by management

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SAP Controlling (CO) Organizational Structure (Cont)

Operating Concern

It represents an organizational unit in your company for which the sales market data has a uniform structure (characteristics/dimensions)

It is the valuation level for profitability analysis (CO_PA)

Multiple controlling areas can be assigned to one operating concern

Plant

The plant represents a production unit and is the central organizational unit in Materials Management and Production Planning.

A plant is assigned to a company code.

Cost Center Hierarchy

It is a tree structure representing all the cost centers belonging to a controlling area from a controlling perspective

Profit Center Hierarchy

It is a tree structure representing all the profit centers belonging to a controlling area from a controlling perspective

Org

SAP Controlling (CO) Controlling Area and Currencies

By assigning more than one company code to a controlling area you can perform cost accounting for all company codes

The controlling area and company codes can have different currencies

The currency of the controlling area can be the same as that for a company code or different from all the company codes assigned to the controlling area.

Currencies on CO

You can use three currencies in management accounting

Controlling area currency

Company code currency or local currency

Transaction currency

By default, cross-company code cost accounting displays the company code currency as the object currency

Org

SAP Controlling (CO) Global Bike Finance Structure

One Operating concern

Two controlling areas

Two company codes

Five plants

Three in North America

Two in Europe

Global Bike

Global Bike Inc

Global Bike Germany GmbH

Dallas

Client

Company code

Plants

Global Concern

North America

Europe

Operating Concern

Controlling Areas

San Diego

Miami

Heilderberg

Hamburg

SAP Controlling (CO) Reflection

What currencies would be involved in a CO transaction on Global Bike Inc?

What currencies would be involved in a CO transaction on Global Bike Germany?

Under the GBI Controlling org structure, what needs the financial management team has and why?

SAP Controlling (CO) Sub-modules

Cost Element and Cost Center Accounting (CCA)

Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

Internal Orders

Product Costing (CO-PC)

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Controlling

SAP Controlling (CO) Master Data Summary

Controlling consists of all master data, configuration, and reporting required to analyze both spend and revenues, both within and across organizations. This includes the following master data:

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Cost elements

Cost/revenue accounts

2

Cost centers

Departmental units

3

Profit centers

Business lines, product lines or divisions

4

Internal

orders

Projects or events

5

Statistical key figures

Statistics for allocation cost

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Activity types

Labor and other activity cost

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Master Data

SAP Controlling (CO) Cost and Statistical Objects

Cost Objects

True cost objects can act as sending or receiving objects during cost allocation.

Cost centers, real internal orders, real projects, networks, make-to-order production orders, cost objects, and profitability segments.

Statistical Cost Objects

Statistical objects cannot allocate cost to other objects.

Statistical orders, statistical projects, and profit centers.

Controlling

Cost Element & Cost Center Accounting Introduction

Financial Accounting is a primary source of data for Management Accounting.

Most expense postings in the general ledger result in a cost posting in Management Accounting.

These expense postings to the general ledger can be journal postings, vendor invoices, or depreciation postings from Asset Management

Cost center

Responsible cost containment

Common use

Finance

Planning

Shipping

Quality

Cost accounting

Cost Element & Cost Center Accounting Transactions

KA01 Create primary cost element

KA06 Create secondary cost element

OKEON Cost center hierarchy

KS01 Create cost center

KL01 Create activity type

KK01 Create statistical key figures

KP06 Budget entry

S_ALR_87013611 Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Var

KSB1 Cost center actual line items

Cost accounting

Cost Element & Cost Center Accounting Master Data: Secondary Cost Element (KA06)

Exist only in CO but not in FI.

Used in conjunction with various allocation techniques in CO

Used for internal allocations within CO.

Do not have any corresponding G/L accounts in FI

Used in CO to redistribute costs and these costs must be balanced

Cost accounting

Controlling

Controlling

Primarily Cost Element

Secondary Cost Element

Controlling area

Validity

Category

Cost Element & Cost Center Accounting Primary Cost Element link with Secondary Cost Element

Any transactions that create cost movements within CO are balanced entries.

When a cost is moved from one controlling objet to another, the sending object is credited and the receiving object is debited for the same amount.

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Cost Center Hierarchy (OKEON)

Cost Centers require a formal structure called a hierarchy

The standard hierarchy is a tree structure representing all the cost centers belonging to a controlling area from a controlling perspective

You can combine cost centers into cost center groups

You can then create cost center hierarchies from these groups by combining the groups according to decision making area, area of responsibility, or management area

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Master Data: Cost Center (KS01)

Use cost center for differentiated assignments of overhead costs to organizational activities based on utilization of the relevant areas and for differentiated controlling of costs arising in an organization

Define a cost center for each low-level organizational unit that has responsibility for managing costs.

The cost center is an organizational unit in a controlling area representing a clearly delimited location where costs occur

Cost accounting

Basic Data

Name and description

Cost Center Hierarchy

Profit Center

Company Code

Responsible person

Business Area

Other

Category

Currency

Cost Center Accounting Master Data: Statistical Key Figures (KK01)

Can be defined as either fixed values or total values.

Examples

Number of employees

Square footage

CO impact: None, used for reporting and allocation purposes

Represent numerical measures used as a basis for internal cost allocations and can be used by cost centers, profit centers, internal orders.

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Master Data: Activity Types (KL01)

Usually measured in a time or unit increment

Used to allocate cost only from cost centers.

Rent

Power

Telephone

CO impact: Costs can flow to other cost objects such as cost centers, internal orders, production orders, ABC processes, etc.

It is the productive output of a cost center and transfer cost between cost centers.

Cost accounting

Basic Data

Name and description

Allocation type

Allocation

Activity unit

Cost center category

Allocation cost element

Price indicator

Cost Center Accounting CO postings: Types of Allocation

Distribution

Method for periodically allocating primarily cost elements

Primarily cost elements maintain their identifies in both the sending and receiving objects

Sender and receiver cost centers are fully documented in a unique controlling (CO) document

Assessment

Method of allocation both primarily and secondary cost elements

Primary and/or secondary cost elements are grouped together and transferred to receiver cost centers through use of a secondary cost element.

Sender and receiver cost centers are fully documented in a unique Controlling (CO) document.

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting CO postings: Distributions

The purpose is to allow a cost center to charge a cost object for services or activities provided using a planned rate.

Cost allocations do not affect the General Ledger

Deals with the measurement, posting, and allocation of an organizational activity.

You need to create the corresponding tracing factors known as activity types in cost center accounting.

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting CO postings: Assessment

Assessment affords a higher level of summarization for allocations where the receiving cost center manager has no control over reducing the expense at the sender cost center.

All the debits and credits posted to the cost center will be combined on a secondary cost element for allocation.

The only way to further allocate secondary costs is to use assessments.

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Budget (Planning)

Involves entering plan figures for costs, activities, prices, or statistical key figures for a particular cost center and a particular planning period.

Goal

Calculate planning costs to define deviations later and to prepare the allocation to the cost bearers.

Based on absorption costing, it allocates all the costs in overhead area to the cost bearers in a company using different procedures

Objectives

To plan the structure of the organization’s future operations for a clearly defined period.

To control business methods within the current settlement period using plan/actual or target/actual comparisons

To monitor the efficiency after the completion of the settlement period using plan/actual or target/actual comparisons

To provide a basis for the valuation of organizational activities independent of random fluctuations

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Budget vs Actuals (S_ALR_87013611)

Controlling area

Fiscal year

From to Period

Plan Version

Cost centers

Cost elements

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Cost center reporting (KSB1)

Controlling area

Cost center

Cost element

Posting date

Cost accounting

Cost Center Accounting Reflection

Which currencies would you think a Global Bike Germany profit center document would have?

What would you recommend GBI in Germany to be its cost center structure and hierarchy and why?

What examples can you provide for GBI distribution process?

What examples can you provide for GBI allocation process?

What would you say is the main purpose of having the distribution and allocation process in SAP?

What benefits you can derive for having your cost center budget in SAP?

Profit Center Accounting Introduction

Purpose is to determine profit for internal areas of responsibility and it is integrated to the New GL

Responsible for revenue regeneration and cost containment

Common use

Region

Function

Product

Profit accounting

Profit center

Revenue

Cost

Profit Center Accounting Transactions

KE51 Create profit center

KCH1 Create profit center hierarchy

KE5Z Profit center actual line items

Profit accounting

Profit Center Accounting Master Data: Profit Center (KE51)

Profit center accounting is a statistical accounting component

It takes transaction data posted in other components and represents it from a profit-center-oriented point of view.

By assigning balance sheet items to profit centers you can analyze your company’s fixed assets by profit centers making it possible to analyze a number of key figures by profit center, thus using them as investment centers

An organizational unit in accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure of the organization for purpose of internal controls

Profit accounting

Basic Data

Controlling area

Validity

Name & description

Company codes

Other

Responsible

Hierarchy group

Profit Center Accounting Data Flow

Profits centers can receive data from:

Direct postings from GL

Automatically generated for AR and AP from document splitting

Direct posting from revenue

Derived posting from expenses

Profit accounting

Profit center

Balance sheet

Revenue

AR and AP

Expense

Profit Center Accounting Reporting (KE5Z)

Controlling area

Company code

Posting Period

Fiscal Year

Profit center

Account

Document number

Profit accounting

Profit Center Accounting Reflection

Which currencies would you think a Global Bike Germany profit center document would have?

What do you think GBI can use profit center accounting for considering they are a manufacturing company.

Internal Order Introduction

Interim cost collector

Usually used to break costs out below the cost center level.

Common use

Project cost

Campaign cost

Travel cost

Used for tracking individual or recurring events where several cost centers may share the expense

Usually short term and gets set to zero at the end.

Overhead Orders

Used to monitor costs incurred for a particular purpose

Investment Orders

Used to monitor costs incurred in the production of a fixed asset

Accrual Orders

Used to offset postings of accrued costs to cost centers

Orders with Revenue

Used to replace the cost accounting parts of SD customer orders if SD is not being used.

Internal order

Internal Order Transactions

KO01 Create order

Planning

Posting and settlement

KOB1 Actual line items

Internal order

Internal Order Master Data (KO01)

It can settle cost at its end of its life into:

Fixed assets

Projects

Profit centers

Is a self-contained mini project cost object with an interim life.

Internal order

Basic Data

Order and description

Category

Other

Company code

Controlling area

Plant

Profit center

Responsible

Currency

Internal Order Planning

During internal order planning, you enter costs, activities, and business processes that you expect to incur during the lifecycle of an order.

Using internal order planning, you can compare plan and actual costs, and carry out a differentiated variance analysis

Planning levels

Overall planning is simplest level for planning order costs which allows you plan overall and annual values irrespective of the cost elements.

Primary/secondary cost and revenue planning can be used if you have detailed information about the internal order which allows you to plan primary costs, activity inputs, and revenues.

Unit Costing can be used to carry out more detailed planning than is possible on cost elements.

Internal order

Internal Order Posting and Settlement

Posting

An internal order is a bucket that allows a better view of costs that could not be itemized in detail in a cost center.

An order can be real or statistical (informational postings only).

If it is a statistical posting, the cost object for that the internal order is attached to would receive the real posting

Settlement

Another form of periodic cost allocation.

Internal orders must be settled because they are interim collectors of costs.

The order will be periodically credited and a receiver will debited with cost.

Can occur at the end of each period or at the end of the order’s life.

Internal order

Internal Order Settlement Rule

Settlement rule establishes the sender and receiver relationship as well as how much each receiver will receive during settlement.

Receivers must be defined as valid in customizing and no impending system restrictions (such as locks) prevent settlement.

Cost centers, other orders, projects, profitability segments, fixed assets, sales order with cost collector, and G/L accounts

Orders

Internal order

Cost center

Other orders

Projects

CO-PA

FI-FA

Cost collectors

Internal Order Reporting (KOB1)

Controlling area

Order

Cost element

Posting date

Internal order

Internal Order Reflection

What would you say is the difference between a cost center and an internal order?

What would you recommend the GBI team to use internal orders for?

What the “settlement” activity has to do with the interim life of an internal order?

Product Costing Introduction

Concerned with all aspects of planning the cost of producing products or services, as well as tracking and analyzing actual costs and consist of the following three components:

Product Cost Planning

Cost Object Controlling

Actual Costing and Material Ledger

Product costing

Material

Cost of material

Labor

Cost of labor

Overhead

Cost of overhead

Product Costing Introduction: Product Cost Planning

Used to estimate the costs to produce goods or services.

If a quantity structure (bill of material and routing) is available in manufacturing Planning, then the system can automatically create a cost estimate based on this data.

If no quantity structure is available you can either enter the cost items manually with the unit costing tool or transfer them automatically from a non-SAP system using batch input.

Product costing

Product Costing Introduction: Actual Costing

Used to provide actual costs for each material at the end of the period.

Materials and their movements are valuated with a standard price during the period.

Any variances with respect to this standard are collected in the material ledger when invoices are received or orders settled.

During period end closing, the variances are used to calculate an actual price for the material in the closed period.

Product costing

Product Costing Transactions

CK40N Costing run

CKMLCP Actual costing run

Product costing

Product Costing Master Data: Material Master Views

Basic

Sales

Purchasing

Plant

Forecast

Storage

Quality

Accounting

Controlling

Product costing

Product Costing Master Data: Material Master

Contains all of the key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization.

The material master defines, among other things, how a product is sold, manufactured, purchased, inventoried and costed.

Information is grouped into views that are organized by business function.

The majority of views of master data are stored at the plant level.

Product costing

Basic Data

Material

Valuation class

Accounting and Costing

Unit of measure

Material group

Description

Controls account determination

Price control

Price per unit

Standard price

Previous price

Last price change

Profit center

Cost estimate

Product Costing Costing Run (CK40N)

Once you have carried out a cost estimate for a material, you can transfer the costing results to the material master as prices.

Three steps

Mark the standard cost estimate

Release

Update

Product costing

Product Costing Costing Run (CK40N)

Release Standard Cost

The system transfers the result of the standard cost estimate into the material master record as the material standard price.

The price is then active for Financial Accounting and is used for the valuation of the material until the next time a standard cost estimate is released.

You can release a standard cost estimate only once per period, unless you delete the previously released standard cost estimate from the database.

Mark Standard Cost

The system writes the result of the cost estimate into the costing view of the material master record as the future standard price.

You can use this price to valuate a material component in the cost estimate.

Product costing

Product Costing Costing Run: Cost Itemizations

Itemizations show detailed information about the origin of costs.

Cost element itemizations groups the individual cost items into cost elements. The cost element group the costs in order of appearance.

Cost component split groups the cost elements into cost components.

Product costing

Product Costing Costing Run: Reporting (S_ALR_87099930)

Costing run

Costing date

Plant

Product costing

Product Costing Reflection

What it means to “estimate the cost”?

What is the inventory effect after a costing run?

What impact would you have in your cost of goods sold when the engineering team may have revisions to the BOM.

Profitability Accounting Introduction

Enables you to evaluate contribution margins of external market segments which can be classified according to:

Products,

Customers,

Orders

Strategic business units,

Sales organizations or

Business areas,

Profitability Accounting components are integrated with Overhead Management and Product Cost Controlling.

Profit Center Accounting receives statistical cost postings from all other management accounting components.

Profitability Analysis can receive cost assessments from cost centers and Activity-Based Costing processes, settlements of costs from internal orders, and production variances settled from cost objects.

PA

Profitability Accounting Introduction: Data Flow

Data from sales order management is one of the key sources of information.

In costing-based profitability analysis information can be taken when an order is created or changed and when an invoice is generated for the order.

In account-based profitability analysis information can be taken when a goods issue is posted and when an invoice is generated for the goods issue.

PA

Profitability Accounting Transactions

KE30 Execute report

KE24 Line items display

PA

Profitability Accounting Reporting (KE24)

Currency type

Period/year

Document number

Company code

Dimensions

Cost element

CO order

Sales order

Customer

Product

PA

Profitability Accounting Reflection

What would be your recommendation for the GBI tem on how to use CO-PA?

What type of data would you expect to see on the CO-PA document?

SAP Controlling (CO) Reflection

It is month end at GBI and the managerial accounting group is working on its month end close, what activities would you need to review in each of the areas below

Cost center accounting

Profit center accounting

Internal order accounting

Product costing

Profitability analysis

SAP Controlling Practice

Display

Master data

Transactional data

Create cost center group

Create cost center

Create budget/forecast

Create statistical key figure

Plan number of employees

Post rent invoice

Create assessment

View assessment results

Review budget vs actuals

SAP Controlling Practice: Data relationship

Display

Master data

Transactional data

Cost center

Cost center group

Statistical key figure

Plan number employees

Assessment

Review assessment

Post invoice

Review budget vs actuals

Budget

SAP Finance User Logon Screen

Click on the icon in your desktop.

Enter the following information:

System ID: BK8

Client: 126

User ID: GBI-XXX

Enter your password

Enter Client, Server and Password

Client is a numeric field and this number represents a whole business entity.

Users are client specific which means that having a user identification in one client will only allow access to that particular client.

The system settings are stored in a file on your machine called the saplogin.ini file. This file is normally preconfigured centrally and then made available to all the users. Once you have been provided with the SAP Logon, you need a username and password to logon to the SAP system. The username and password is unique for each user and you do have the option to change your password using the New password button available on the screen.

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SAP Controlling Create Cost Center

Menu path/Tcode (KS01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Master Data ► Cost Center ► Individual Processing ► Create

Controlling area NA00

On the following screen enter CC-FI### (replace ### with your assigned number) The cost center should be valid from 01/01 of the current fiscal year. Press ENTER or click to confirm.

Enter Finance ### as the cost center name and enter your name for the person responsible. Select cost center category Service cost center H and assign the cost center to hierarchy area Internal services N1200. In addition, choose business area Bikes and currency USD.

Click to save

Cost center:______________

SAP Controlling Create Cost Center (Cont)

Menu path/Tcode (KS01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Master Data ► Cost Center ► Individual Processing ► Create

Controlling area NA00

On the following screen enter CC-IC### (replace ### with your assigned number) The cost center should be valid from 01/01 of the current fiscal year. Press ENTER or click to confirm.

Enter Inventory ### as the cost center name and enter your name for the person responsible. Select cost center category Service cost center H and assign the cost center to hierarchy area Internal services N1200. In addition, choose business area Bikes and currency USD.

Click to save

Menu path/Tcode (KS01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Master Data ► Cost Center ► Individual Processing ► Create

Controlling area NA00

On the following screen enter CC-IT### (replace ### with your assigned number) The cost center should be valid from 01/01 of the current fiscal year. Press ENTER or click to confirm.

Enter Information Technology ### as the cost center name and enter your name for the person responsible. Select cost center category Service cost center H and assign the cost center to hierarchy area Internal services N1200. In addition, choose business area Bikes and currency USD.

Click to save

Cost center:______________

Cost center:______________

SAP Controlling Create Cost Center Group

Menu path/Tcode (KSH1)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Master Data ► Cost Center Group ► Create

Create a group called GROUP### (replace ### with your assigned number). Click to continue.

Name the display hierarchy “Rent cost receivers and click

In the left-hand column, enter the cost centers CC-FI###, CC-IC### and CC-IT### and click to confirm.

Click . Then return to the main menu by clicking twice.

Cost center group:______________

SAP Controlling Create Budget

Menu path/Tcode (KP06)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Planning ► Cost and Activity Inputs► Change

Controlling area NA000, planning version 0 (Plan/Act-Version), From current period and fiscal year

Enter cost center group GROUP### replace ### with your assigned number) and hit the overview screen icon

Enter cost element 75###5

CC-FI### for rent and enter $90,000 for the current month budget.

CC-IC### for rent and enter $30,000 for the current month budget

CC-IT### for rent and enter $30,000 for the current month budget

SAP Controlling Create Statistical Key Figure

Menu path/Tcode (KK01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Master Data ► Statistical Key Figures ► Individual Processing ► Create

Enter EMP### (replace ### with your assigned number) as the key figure number and click . Make sure controlling area NA00 was selected.

Enter Number of Employees as the name and chose Number of persons (PRS) as the unit. Make sure the category FXD val is selected. Click

Click to return to the SAP main menu.

Statistical key figure:______________

SAP Controlling Plan number of Employees

Menu path/Tcode (KK01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Planning ► Statistical Key Figures ► Change

Select planning layout statistical key figures: standard (1-301).

Choose the Plant/actual version (version 0) and current period (from period), end of the fiscal year (to period) and current fiscal year.

Enter cost center CC-FI### and key figure EMP###

Click Form-Based at the bottom f the screen, then click . Enter 15 as the current plan value and click

SAP Controlling Plan number of Employees (Cont)

Menu path/Tcode (KK01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Planning ► Statistical Key Figures ► Change

Select planning layout statistical key figures: standard (1-301).

Choose the Plant/actual version (version 0) and current period (from period), end of the fiscal year (to period) and current fiscal year.

Enter cost center CC-IC### and key figure EMP###

Click Form-Based at the bottom f the screen, then click . Enter 5 as the current plan value and click

Menu path/Tcode (KK01)

Accounting ► Controlling ► Cost Center Accounting ► Planning ► Statistical Key Figures ► Change

Select planning layout statistical key figures: standard (1-301).

Choose the Plant/actual version (version 0) and current period (from period), end of the fiscal year (to period) and current fiscal year.

Enter cost center CC-IT### and key figure EMP###

Click Form-Based at the bottom f the screen, then click . Enter 5 as the current plan value and click

SAP Controlling Post AP for Rent

Menu path/Tcode (FB60)

Accounting ► Financial Accounting ► Accounts Payable► Document entry ► Invoice

Select company code :US00 and confirm that transaction is set as Invoice

Header data: basic data view, enter vendor number you created on your FI case (Cardinal Rent) today's date as invoice and posting date, Invv-### as reference, and $150,000 USD as amount.

Line items view. Enter your expense account 75###5, D/C Debit, Amount in document currency $150,000 and cost center CC-FI###. Remember to replace ### with your assigned number

Use the to see the postings

Click to post the document

Document number:______________

SAP Controlling Execute Assessment

Menu path/Tcode (KSUB)

Accounting ►Controlling ►Cost Center Accounting ►Planning ►Allocations ►Assessment

In the Execute Plan Assessment: Initial Screen, choose Extras ►Cycle ►Create. Enter cycle number C### (replace ### with your assigned number), valid from the beginning of the fiscal year until the end of the current fiscal year and click

Enter Cycle CC-FI### as text, uncheck the iterative field and click

On the Segment Header tab type in SEG###. Enter PLA### as the Assessment CEle (replace ### with your assigned number).

On the Senders/Receivers tab, enter CC-FI### as Sender cost element on the form column and cost center group GROUP### as receiver in the Group column

SAP Controlling Execute Assessment (Cont)

Menu path/Tcode (KSUB)

Accounting ►Controlling ►Cost Center Accounting ►Planning ►Allocations ►Assessment

On the Receiver Tracing Factor tab choose the value Plan Stat. Key Figures in the Var. portion type field.

The following information popup indicates that new fields are displayed.

Click , in the Selection Criteria section choose Plan/actual version and statistical key figure EMP### (replace ### with your assigned number)

Click and three times to go back, and confirm the subsequent confirmation

In the Execute Plan Assessment: Initial Screen enter your cycle C### and click . Uncheck Test Run and click

The system should notify you that processing was completed without errors. The number of senders should be 1 (CC-FI###) and the number receivers 3 (Cost center group GROUP###)

Click . Choose when asked for exiting the assessment list. Click to return to SAP main menu

Cycle:______________

SAP Controlling View Assessment Results

Menu path/Tcode (KSBL)

Accounting ►Controlling ►Cost Center Accounting ►Information System ►Reports for Cost Center Accounting ►Planning Reports ►Cost Centers: Planning Overview

On the Planning Report: Initial Report Screen, find your CC-FI### cost center. Enter current fiscal year, current period and version 0. Click and view the results of the assessment.

Repeat the process for cost centers CC-IC### and CC-IT###.

Click on twice to return to SAP main menu.

You should notice that the system did a cost reallocation of $150,000 posted originally to cost center CC_FI### to the rest of the cost centers of group GROUP### using the number of employees allocated on the statistical key figure.

SAP Controlling Review Budget vs Actuals

Menu path/Tcode (S_ALR_87013611)

Accounting ► Financial Accounting ► General Ledger ► Master Records ► G/L Accounts ► Individual Processing ► Centrally

Enter controlling area NA00, current fiscal year, current period and plan version 0

Enter cost center group GROUP### and click .

Review cost centers planning and compare with actuals

SAP Controlling FICO Use Case Assignment

Beginning of the month:

You just received the revisions to the building rent’s budget for the current month as follow:

Finance (cost center CC-FI###) for € 9,000

Inventory (cost center CC-IC###) for € 13,000

IT (cost center CC-IT###) for € 3,000

You just received the rent’s allocation for the current month as follow:

Finance (cost center CC-FI###) 10 employees

Inventory (cost center CC-IC###) 12 employees

IT (cost center CC-IT###) 8 employees

During the month:

The vendor called Cardinal Properties has a subsidiary in Germany with the following address: 1500 Unification Ave, Berlin XXXXX. The agreement for payment terms and payment is global.

The invoice’s rent for the current month is for € 20,000 with a document date of the 15th of the current month and invoice number A120057

The payment is schedule for the end of the current month for € 20,000

You are part of the Finance department for the GBI Germany company and will be supporting the month end activities to close the financial books and review the managerial accounting reports.

SAP Controlling FICO Use Case Assignment

End of the month:

Review your vendor balances and line items

Review your rent balances and line items

Create assessment for rent allocation. The cost center group for allocation follow the same directions established by corporate.

Review your allocation results and review your budget.

Org structure

Company code: DE01

Controlling area: EU00

Hierarchy area E1200

Business area: Bikes

Cost center group for allocation GROUP###

Statistical key figure EMP###

Global CoA

AP reconciliation account 300000

Rent GL account and cost element 75###5

Cash

You are part of the Finance department for the GBI Germany company and will be supporting the month end activities to close the financial books and review the managerial accounting reports.

SAP Controlling FICO Use Case Assignment

Provide an excel file documenting every master record created, transaction posted and display document revised using the following headers:

Sequence (e.g. 1)

Task (e.g. Review GL account master record in company code DE00)

Transaction code (e.g. FS02)

Master record/Document (e.g. 75###5)