Displaying How the Accounts Payable Item Affects Cost Center Accounting

Displaying How the Accounts Payable Item Affects Cost Center Accounting

All the earlier procedures assumed that you are working in the accounts payable department. The next procedure demonstrates what a cost center manager sees when an invoice is posted to his or her cost center. You execute a cost center report and from there, drill down to the source documents in accounts payable.

Select in the SAP R/3 System screen Accounting ® Controlling ® Cost centers.
On the Cost Center Accounting screen, select Information system ® Report selection.
On the Application Tree Report Selection Cost Center Accounting screen, select Plan/actual comparisons.
Mark Cost center: Actual/plan/variance and select Execute.
On the Cost centers: Actual/plan/variance: Selection screen, enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Controlling area	1000	2000
Fiscal year	Current year	Current year
From period	001	001
To period	012	012
Plan version	0	0
Cost center value(s)	1000	1000

Select Execute.

The R/3 System displays the cost center report with a total for each cost element posted.

On the Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance: Result screen, place your cursor on the cost element 476900, in the Act. Costs column and double-click.

The R/3 System displays a dialog box that shows all of the reports you can drill down into.

Mark the line Cost Centers: Actual Line Items and select Choose.

The R/3 System displays a list of CO line items.

On the Display Actual Cost Line Items for Cost Centers screen, select Choose Display variant...

A dialog box Display variant: choose appears.

Mark the line Primary cost posting and select Copy.
Select the document you just posted by double-clicking.

The R/3 System displays the document overview screen.

Return to the main SAP R/3 System screen.

Do not save an extract before leaving the report.

End of process chain.