Commercial Project Reports 

Purpose

Various evaluations are available for you to use when analyzing and monitoring commercial data; you can, for example, vary the degree of detail. This means you can run recurring standard reports and create reports for more unusual information needs and tasks. You can analyze all data online as soon as it is entered and trace its origin back to the document level. You can analyze data in summarizations by, say, responsibility area.

The commercial project reports display only those objects in which commercial data, such as costs, was posted.

Features

You can access different evaluations to meet your various information needs.

●     Access the cost/revenue/payment hierarchy reports to obtain an overview of the whole value flow in the project. The hierarchy reports are based on drilldown.

●     For detailed information at cost element level about costs and revenues, look at the cost element reports. You can use the cost element reports to summarize line items, in the form of totals records, according to your own criteria.

●     You can use the line item reports to evaluate individual actual, plan, commitment, and budget values.

●     With the CO document display, you can view documents relating to actual cost accounting postings and, subject to certain conditions, plan postings.

Unlike the line item reports, this display always shows the completed document, regardless of which cost accounting objects are affected.

●     With the project summarization, you can evaluate transaction data within a controlling area according to different views and summarization characteristics. You can access this data in the information system, thereby improving information system performance. Summarization reports are available for hierarchy reports and cost element reports.

The table provides guidance on how to choose the report you need:

Information Required	Report
Internal business volume in settlement	Hierarchy report
Order plan values as commitments	Hierarchy report
Budgeting and cost planning	Hierarchy report
Payment data	Hierarchy report
Incoming orders	Hierarchy report
Open orders	Hierarchy report
Costs to complete (CTC)	Hierarchy report
Detailed actual, plan, and commitment values by object	Cost element report
Debits and credits by object	Cost element report
Plan data from the network costing, by cost element	Cost element report
Quantities	Cost element report
Statistical key figures	Cost element report
Credit from settlement	Cost element report

 

Regardless of which report you access first, you can navigate between the various reports using the report-report interface.

However, as projects vary widely in what they do and how they do it, you can create your own reports; use the drilldown to create hierarchy reports and Report Painter to create cost element reports. Alternatively, you can adapt the layout and content of existing reports to meet your own requirements.

The system first translates the cost report values into controlling area currency and displays them accordingly, regardless of the currency in which the values were entered. If you want to evaluate the report in a different currency or in more than one currency, you can define appropriate reports of your own. The system we deliver contains a sample hierarchy report and a sample cost element report which you can use as templates.

For more information, read Currencies in the Information System.

The hierarchy reports are based on drilldown. For more information, read the CA General Drilldown documentation.

Cost element reports are Report Painter or Report Writer reports. For more information, read Report Painter Reports.

The line item reports are based on the ABAP List Viewer. For more information, read the ABAP List Viewer documentation.

For more information on the report-report interface, read Report-Report Interface.