Calculating Overhead Rates 

Use

You now apply overhead to the actual costs incurred by the confirmation of the activities for detailed engineering.

You determine the overhead costs in the period in which you confirm the detailed engineering.

Prerequisites

In Customizing of the Project System under Controlling, costing sheet ZECPP01 has been maintained. The parameters for the overhead calculation are summarized in the costing sheet.

This costing sheet is assigned to all activities of detailed engineering. The assignment is made indirectly via project profile ZECPP01.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Project System ® Financials ® Period-End Closing ® Single Functions ® Applied Overhead ® Individual Processing, Actual

    Transaction Code

    CJ44

  2. If required, enter controlling area 2000, then choose .
  3. Enter the following data:
    4.

    Field

    Data

    Project definition

    A-20###

    With orders

    Select

    Period

    Month of the earliest start date

    Fiscal year

    Year of the earliest start date

    Test run

    Deselect

    Detailed lists

    Select

  4. Choose .

    5. You now see the log containing the results of the actual overhead calculation.

  5. To analyze the individual overhead values, choose .

Result

The system calculates the overhead costs and updates them by cost element on the project activities under overhead cost elements.