Function documentationLine Item Report

 

Line item reports enable you to select individual posting documents. Controlling contains line item reports for the following components:

  • Cost Center Accounting

  • Internal Orders

Features

You can use the following line items reports for the analysis:

  • Actual line item report

    You can display line item reports for archived actual costs (see: Reading Standard Reports from Archives).

  • Plan line item report

    You use these reports to update plan line items. To do so, in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step General Controlling End of the navigation path, choose Start of the navigation path Organization Next navigation step Maintain Versions End of the navigation path and activate the Integrated planning indicator in the settings for each fiscal year.

  • Commitment line item report

    You can use this report in both Cost Center Accounting and in Overhead Orders.

For more information on cost center line item reports, see Cost Centers: Actual Line Item Report, Cost Centers: Commitments Line Item Report and Cost Centers: Plan Line Item Report.

For more information on business process line item reports, see Business Processes Plan Line Items and Business Process Actual Line Item.

Note Note

If there are any incorrect line items, you can trigger an adjustment posting directly from the report by choosing Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Correction request End of the navigation path (see Requesting an Adjustment Posting from the Intranet (AC)).

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Selection

You can select line item reports according to the following parameters:

  • Object (cost center, business process, order)

  • Range of objects (a given number)

  • Object group

  • Cost element

  • Cost element interval

  • Cost element groups

  • Posting period

  • Debit date for commitment.

The selection screen enables application-wide use of the line item report. In the selection screen you can limit the selection according to object type, partner object type, and other selection criteria. You can access the line item report from the selection screen.

You can use the enhancement COOMEP01 to add to additional fields in the line item report. To do so, in Customizing for the relevant application component, choose Start of the navigation path Information System Next navigation step Standard Reports Next navigation step Enhancements for Line Item Reports End of the navigation path.

Standard Variants

You can format the list using display variants contained in the standard system. You can also define your own display variants.

For more information on displaying the line item report, see The Line Item Report Display.

Note Note

If you are working with transfer prices (multiple valuation approaches) you can select the required valuation approach (with which the line item report is displayed) in the initial screen for the line item report. You do this on the line item report initial screen by choosing Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Data source End of the navigation path.

For more information on transfer prices, see Multiple Valuation Approaches in Overhead Cost Controlling.

In the SAP standard display variants, the value fields in the controlling area currency were replaced with the value fields in the report currency. This enables you to display/print line item reports in any currency. For more information on report currency, see the IMG for Cost Center Accounting under Start of the navigation path Information System Next navigation step User Settings Next navigation step Specify User Settings End of the navigation path.

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