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Function documentation Cost Transfer Posting in Cost Accounting Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

The function RHCCOS00 lets you calculate the costs of business events and transfer these to Cost Accounting (CO).

This means the cost center of the resource (sender cost center) is credited and the specified account assignment object (receiver), for example cost center of the organizer, is debited.

During this process, the sum total of the costs as a percentage is distributed to the possible account assignment objects (cost center, order, WBS element, or project).

Fund Accounting objects (fund, functional area, and grant) can also be transferred to CO, if Fund Accounting is active.

Caution

You can currently only enter the specifications for cost distribution and account assignment by executing the report. These specifications are only saved when cost transfer posting is performed.

See also:

Business Event Costs

Integration

You activate integration with Cost Accounting in Customizing for Training and Event Management under Cost Transfer Posting.

Prerequisites

·        You should have already maintained the costs and cost items and the relevant reference unit and valid cost element for the business event (type) and resource (type). You do this in the Costs infotype (1036).

·        The sender cost center must be maintained.

·        The cost assignment objects used (cost center, order, WBS element) are maintained.

·        Sender cost center and cost assignment object(s) are in the same controlling area.

·        The business events concerned must have the status firmly booked (active).

Features

Selection

You can set parameters to determine the data output by the report.

Objects or business event selection (pre-report)

There are a number of ways to start the report:

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                            a.      Enter one or more business event groups. The system finds all of the business events belonging to the specified group(s) and calculates the costs.

                            b.      Enter one or more business event types. The system finds all of the business events belonging to the specified type(s) and calculates the costs.

                            c.      Enter one or more business events.

Reporting period

You can specify any period for which you want to determine costs.

Document date

Enter a date in this field if you want to change the default date of the cost transfer transaction. This date is used purely for information purposes. The default date is usually the current date.

Posting date

The date in this field indicates when costs are to be posted to CO, in other words, the settlement period.  The default date is usually the business event start date. You can overwrite this date as required.

Example

You want to perform cost transfer posting for an event that started on February 2nd of a given year. However, you want costs posted in the second quarter rather than in the first quarter. In this case, you enter April 2nd as the posting date.

Currency

Enter the currency in which costs should be output and for cost transfer posting purposes.

Standard selection screen (only pre-report RHXCCOS0)

If you select this indicator and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text, the report branches to the more detailed selection screen of the main report RHCCOS00 before it is executed.

Note

On the selection screen of the main report, you can select objects by status, for example. As a rule, you need not access the standard selection screen since the pre-report has sufficient data selection options. If you do not want to go to the standard selection screen, do not activate this parameter before you choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Output

The system displays a list containing the following information per business event:

·        The individual cost items

·        The number of individual cost items

·        The individual costs per cost item

·        The origin of the costs (such as the resources for which costs were stored)

·        The cost centers of the resources (sender)

·        The account assignment object(s) (receiver, for example the organizer’s cost center)

·        The cost element

·        The reference unit (such as time)

·        The overall costs

In the list screen, you can, if necessary, distribute costs to other account assignment objects using the Change account assignment function.

Note

If you do not want to use this function, the Customizing settings made under Integration ® Billing and Activity Allocation ® Cost Transfer Posting ® Specify Organizational Elements automatically apply for determining the receiver cost center (that is, in general the cost center of the cost object of the business event).

You can perform cost transfer posting from the list screen:

If you select Transfer costs and choose Create cost transfer, the costs of the selected business events are transferred to CO.

The following process flow takes place:

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       1.      A validation check is performed on the document items. If the items are validated, a reference document is generated with the status transfer designated.

       2.      The BAPI/ALE for the cost transfer posting is called.

       3.      The status of the reference document is changed to transfer effected (yellow/amber light)

       4.      Due to the fact that the systems may be decoupled (CO and PE in distributed systems), confirmation of this transaction is necessary to ensure that the transaction has actually been executed.

For this purpose, you must call the function Compare document. The system searches for the original CO document.

Caution

It is only possible to further edit attendee data, for example, to make a cancellation, when the cost transfer operation has been confirmed in the target system using the function Compare document.

If the original document is found, the status of the reference document changes to Transfer confirmed (green light). You can display the original document by choosing View ® Ref. <-> Original document.

If the original document cannot be found, the status of the reference document changes to Transfer incorrect (red light).

Note

For more information on the procedure when the original document cannot be found, refer to Error diagnosis in note 161511.

You can execute the following functions from the list screen:

·        Display the document flow for the business event, in other words, all of the relevant allocation data that exists for the business event.

·        Display document (reference document). You can also display the original document from here.

·        Display error log (confirmations of check/execution of cost transfer posting)

·        Check whether data relevant for transfer can be posted. This function also checks whether the settlement period is closed, in which case, data transfer to CO is not allowed.

·        Cancel document: In the event of errors in the billing document, you can cancel (reverse) the document and start the billing procedure once again. This process is equivalent to generating a new document.

·        Display the resource list of the business event

·        Display resources not yet assigned to the business event, in other words, resources that have not yet been reserved for the event although they are listed under resource requirements.

Caution

If you are performing cost transfer posting in distributed systems (HR and CO in different systems), please note the information contained in Set Cost Transfer Posting in Training and Event Management.

See also:

Transferring Costs

For information on the interface, refer to:

Cost Transfer Posting in Training and Event Management

Business Process Flow of Cost Transfer Posting

Performing Cost Transfer

Checking Cost Transfer Posting

 

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