Posting Expenditure to Sales Orders 

Use

In the repetitive manufacturing example (process: Posting Example for Cost of Sales Accounting: Repetitive Manufacturing), you saw how the production costs moved from the order to cost of sales. In this example, you will see how order costs are posted as operational expenses, and how this posting is reflected in the profit and loss statement.

Assume that you are carrying out a marketing campaign and you send your customers brochures. Postage costs arise for this activity. After you have posted your postage costs to the order, check where these costs are reflected in the profit and loss statement.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® Accounts Payable ® Document Entry ® Other ® Invoice - General

    Transaction Code

    F-43, FB03

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Document date

    Today’s date

    Today’s date

    Company code

    1000

    3000

    Currency/rate

    EUR

    USD

    PstKy

    31

    31

    Account

    1910

    3910

  3. Choose .
  4. Enter the following data:
    5.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Amount

    2,320.00

    2,300.00

    Calculate tax

    Select

    Select

    Tax code

    VN

    I1

    PstKy

    40

    40

    Account

    473000

    473000

  5. Choose .
  6. Enter the following data:
    7.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Amount

    *

    *

    Order

    400137

    400046

  7. Choose .
  8. Make a note of the document number.
  9. If you want to display the document, choose Document ® Display.

    10. You can see the functional areas that the individual items were posted to.

  10. To display an expense item, double-click on the item.
  11. Choose More.
  12. In the dialog box, choose .

    13. The combination of functional area and cost element determines where the individual amounts appear in the profit and loss statement.

  13. Run the report described in Running the Report for the Profit and Loss Statement. You can see that the order costs appear in the Sales and distribution costs section of your profit and loss statement.
  14. Choose until the overview tree appears.

In the Exit Editing dialog box, choose Yes.