Controlling with SAP

John Jordan has been an SAP consultant, specializing in the SAP Financials and Controlling area for several years and owns his own company. He is the author of the successful Essentials guide Production Variance Analysis for SAP Controlling. and has also written several articles for the SCM Expert and Financials Expert newsletters and has presented at the WIS conferences.

* ... Acknowledgments ... 11 * ... Introduction ... 12 * PART 1 ... Cost Center Accounting ... 14 * 1 ... Standard and Alternate Hierarchies ... 16 * 2 ... Procedure to Swap the Standard Hierarchy ... 18 * 3 ... Cost Element Default Account Assignment ... 20 * 4 ... Automatic Account Assignment ... 22 * 5 ... Plan Activity Price with Activity Type Groups ... 24 * 6 ... Copy Cost Center Plan ... 26 * 7 ... Plan Cost Splitting ... 28 * 8 ... Actual Price Calculation ... 30 * 9 ... Target Cost Analysis ... 32 * 10 ... Cost Center Variance Analysis ... 34 * PART 2 ... Internal Orders ... 38 * 11 ... Internal Order Planning ... 40 * 12 ... Internal Order Budgeting ... 42 * PART 3 ... Profit Center Accounting ... 44 * 13 ... Profit Center Integrated Planning ... 46 * 14 ... Profit Center Assignment Monitor ... 48 * PART 4 ... Product Cost Planning ... 50 * 15 ... Standard versus Moving Average Price ... 52 * 16 ... Moving Average Historical Price ... 54 * 17 ... Changing Material Prices Manually ... 56 * 18 ... Price Unit versus Costing Lot Size ... 58 * 19 ... Optimize Costing Lot Size ... 60 * 20 ... Purchasing Info Record Prices ... 62 * 21 ... Purchasing Info Record Scales ... 64 * 22 ... Plant-Specific Purchasing Info Records ... 66 * 23 ... Cost Estimates and Procurement Type ... 68 * 24 ... Costing Sheets Allocate Overhead ... 70 * 25 ... Template Alternative to Costing Sheets ... 72 * 26 ... Copying Costing Variants ... 74 * 27 ... Cost Estimate User Exits ... 76 * 28 ... Purchased Material Delivery Costs ... 80 * 29 ... Activity Type Search Strategies ... 84 * 30 ... Cost Estimate Default Dates ... 86 * 31 ... Transfer Control Uses Existing Cost Estimates ... 88 * 32 ... Marking Allowance for Valuation Variants ... 90 * 33 ... Mixed Cost Estimates ... 92 * 34 ... Optimize Costing Runs ... 94 * 35 ... Material Status Reduces Costing Messages ... 96 * 36 ... Reduce the Clutter in Cost Estimate Screens ... 98 * 37 ... Unit Cost Estimate Base Planning Object ... 100 * 38 ... Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure ... 102 * 39 ... Searching for Cost Estimates ... 104 * PART 5 ... Cost Object Controlling ... 106 * 40 ... Valuation Class and Material Type ... 108 * 41 ... Display Automatic Account Assignment Entries ... 110 * 42 ... Valuation Grouping Code Message ... 112 * 43 ... Purchasing Account Assignment Categories ... 114 * 44 ... Post Purchase Price Variance to Purchasing ... 116 * 45 ... Default Values for Product Cost Collectors ... 118 * 46 ... Process versus Production Orders ... 120 * 47 ... Valuated Sales Order Stock ... 122 * 48 ... Valuation of Sales Order Stock ... 124 * 49 ... Target Cost Versions ... 126 * 50 ... Work in Process and Product Cost Collectors ... 128 * 51 ... Results Analysis Involves Revenue ... 130 * 52 ... Settlement and Processing Types ... 132 * 53 ... Assembly Scrap Basics ... 134 * 54 ... Component and Assembly Scrap ... 136 * 55 ... Operation Scrap Basics ... 138 * 56 ... Purchase Order Deletion Flag ... 140 * 57 ... Production Order Deletion Flag ... 142 * 58 ... Product Cost Collector Deletion Flag ... 144 * 59 ... Allow Movement Types in a Test System ... 146 * 60 ... Subcontracting Process ... 148 * 61 ... Inventory Aging Reports ... 150 * 62 ... Inventory the Lowest Value Principle ... 152 * 63 ... Change Valuation Class with Inventory ... 156 * 64 ... Movement Type Account Determination ... 158 * PART 6 ... Material Ledger ... 160 * 65 ... Multiple Valuations with the Material Ledger ... 162 * 66 ... Actual Costing with the Material Ledger ... 164 * 67 ... Period-End Closing with the Material Ledger ... 166 * 68 ... Material Master Conversion during Startup ... 170 * 69 ... Purchase Order Conversion during Startup ... 172 * 70 ... Reconciliation during Production Startup ... 174 * 71 ... Preparation for Production Startup ... 176 * 72 ... Post Conversion Activities ... 178 * 73 ... Actual Cost Component Split ... 180 * 74 ... Deactivating the Material Ledger ... 182 * PART 7 ... Profitability Analysis ... 184 * 75 ... Account- versus Costing-Based CO-PA ... 186 * 76 ... Cost of Sales Cost Element ... 188 * 77 ... Statistical Conditions and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) ... 190 * 78 ... Map Manual Account Adjustments ... 192 * 79 ... Interface Sign Logic ... 194 * 80 ... Valuation ... 196 * 81 ... Settle Production Variances to CO-PA ... 198 * 82 ... Data Storage Tables ... 200 * 83 ... Summarization Levels and Reporting ... 202 * 84 ... Customizing Monitor ... 204 * PART 8 ... Controlling General ... 206 * 85 ... SAP ERP Delivered Controlling Areas ... 208 * 86 ... Open and Close Accounting Periods ... 210 * 87 ... Controlling Period Lock ... 212 * 88 ... Closing Materials Management Periods ... 214 * 89 ... Add Object Services to Sales Orders ... 216 * 90 ... Implementation Guide Shortcuts ... 218 * PART 9 ... Information System ... 220 * 91 ... Line Item Reports ... 222 * 92 ... Detailed Reports ... 224 * 93 ... Order Summarization ... 226 * 94 ... Variance Analysis in Prior Periods ... 228 * 95 ... Origin Groups Provide Detailed Reporting ... 230 * 96 ... Cost Component Groups Improve Reporting ... 232 * 97 ... Display a List of Product Cost Collectors ... 234 * 98 ... Display Data Directly with Data Browser ... 236 * 99 ... Drill-Down to Display Table Content ... 238 * 100 ... Wildcard Search Options ... 240 * ... Glossary ... 242 * ... Bibliography ... 260 * ... Additional Resources ... 262 * ... The Author ... 265 * ... Index ... 266