Planning Costs 

Usage

You have already planned costs for your project by costing the activities. You have not assigned any activities to WBS element I/# # # # -4. You will manually plan the costs of this WBS element for current year using:

Cost planning not dependent on cost elements

Cost planning using the original cost elements based on the usage of given CO activities.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Project System ® Financials ® Planning ® Costs in WBS ® Overall Values ® Change

    Transaction Code

    CJ40

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Project def.

    I/# # # #

    Version

    0

  3. Choose Cost planning.

    4. The Change Cost Planning: WBS Element Overview screen appears. In the overview, you can enter the annual planned values. In a second column, the system displays the planned total. These are the costs calculated by the system for the network activities.

    To display the WBS element descriptions instead of the numbers, choose Settings ® Display options and select the display option you prefer.

    If you wanted to see the calculated planned costs for the next year, you would choose .

  4. For WBS element I/# # # # - 4 System Optimization, enter costs of EUR 5,000.00.
  5. Select WBS element I/# # # # - 4 System Optimization, then choose Activity input.
  6. If the Set Controlling Area dialog box appears, enter 1000, then choose .
  7. Enter the following data:
    8.

    Field

    Data

    Description

    Sender cost center

    4290

    		  

    Sender ActTyp

    1421

    		  

    Total planned consumption

    10

    Planned activity quantity in hours

  8. Choose .

    9. The system uses the planned prices of the activity types to calculate the costs.

  9. Choose .

    10. The Change Cost Planning: WBS Element Overview screen appears. In the Planned total view, the system displays the costs of the activity input for WBS element I/# # # # - 4 System Optimization, in addition to the cost-element-independent costs (5,000 EUR). The cost element planning indicator is displayed.

  10. Choose Edit ® Total up.
  11. In the dialog box, choose .

    12. The system adds up the costs, starting from the bottom of the hierarchy. In the left column, the system displays the manually planned costs, in the Planned total column it displays the total planned costs of the project.

    The cost planning is only correct if the planned values of the lower levels do not exceed the value of the higher levels.

    If you have maintained planned values over several years, enter the corresponding years in the Total up dialog box.

  12. Choose .

Result

You have planned costs for your project. You use this cost estimate as the basis of the budget allocation.

Allocating the Budget