Periodic reposting is posting aid that enables you to adjust postings made to your cost centers or business processes, internal orders, or WBS elements. It has the same result as transaction-based reposting. The results of transaction-based repostings have a direct effect on the actual costs of the sender and the receiver, whereas periodic repostings have a one-time effect on actual costs at period-end closing.

Postings relevant to Controlling (CO) such as telephone costs, postal charges, insurance, and so on are entered in Financial Accounting (FI) and posted to an allocation cost center or a business process. These are used exclusively for cost collection. This minimizes the number of different account assignments you have to make when entering data in FI. At the end of the period, the collected costs are reposted to the cost centers or business processes which incurred the costs by of means user-defined keys (fixed values or dynamic tracing factors). The following information is passed on to the receivers:

• The original cost element (the primary cost element) is retained.

• The allocation cost center is not important for the receiver cost centers (neither is the sender business process for the receiver processes). The SAP System therefore stores data records for periodic reposting in a way that uses less memory than, for example, distribution. For this reason, the sender cost center or sender process is not updated using this method. You can only analyze from which cost center or from which business process the costs originate from the line items, and not from the totals records.

• Financials ® Enterprise Controlling (EC) ® Profit Center Accounting ® Multiple Valuation Approaches/Transfer Prices
• Financials ® Controlling (CO) ® Controlling ® Overhead Cost-Controlling ® Multiple Valuation Approaches in Overhead Cost Controlling

Defining Periodic Repostings or Periodic Allocations

Creating or Changing Cycles

Executing Periodic Repostings or Periodic Allocations Online

Displaying the Cycle Overview