Calculating Overhead 

Prerequisites

You have carried out the steps required for the calculation of overhead in Customizing for Product Cost Controlling.

You have carried out the following period-end closing activities in the relevant application component:

Procedures

  1. Choose Accounting ® Controlling ® Cost Object Controlling and then the desired component (such as Product Cost by Order or Product Cost by Sales Order).
  2. Choose Period-End Closing ® Overhead

    3. In Product Cost by Period, choose whether the overhead should be calculated for the product cost collector or for the cost object hierarchy.

    In Costs for Intangible Goods and Services, choose whether the overhead should be calculated for the internal order or for the general cost object.

    Choose between individual processing and collective processing if applicable.

    The screen Actual Overhead Calculation appears.

  3. Enter the required data.
  4. Set the indicators for processing control as desired.
  5. Choose Overhead Calculation ® Execute

Result

The system calculates the overhead.

The system makes the following postings from the overhead calculation:

The costs are updated under the secondary cost element specified in the costing sheet in the credit.