Actual Postings to Activity Types (SAP Library - Manual Actual Postings (CO-OM-CCA))

Actual Postings to Activity Types

Use

When you execute actual postings you can assign directly to the activity type of a cost center. You can use an activity type as an account assignment object in the following application areas:

Personnel costs for Payroll Accounting

You can use the sender activity type specified in the time sheet, or in Time Management to further assign personnel costs to Payroll Accounting

Depreciation postings on the activity type in Asset Accounting (see: Depreciations).

For periodic postings of depreciation costs in the general ledger you can, in addition to cost centers and orders, also assign costs to the activity type stored in the asset master data.

In the same way, you can also assign costs directly to activity types for G/L account postings in Financial Accounting (see: Posting Documents).

In Controlling you can execute repostings of line items for activity types (see: Reposting Line Items).

Note

Note that the R/3 System ignores the costs assigned to activity types during a later Distribution.

To allocate activity, you can use either direct activity allocation or indirect activity allocation.

Caution

To ensure an exact assignment of the costs to the activity types, you assign costs in the actual just as in the plan. You should therefore post either in the actual and in the plan to the cost center, or in the actual and in the plan to the activity types of the cost center.

Caution

Direct account assignment of activity types has an effect on actual cost splitting (see: Actual Cost Splitting). The R/3 System requires that the costs assigned directly to the activity types are assigned correctly, and in full, to the activity types. Directly assigned activity types do not therefore take part in the first splitting step. The R/3 System simply splits the cost into fixed and variable. In the second splitting step, the R/3 System also splits the activity-independent costs on the directly assigned activity types (see: Example of Splitting After Account Assignment to an Activity Type).

Prerequisites

To assign costs to an activity type, go to Customizing for General Controlling and choose the IMG activity for creating a controlling area, under Organization ® Maintain Controlling Area). Select AA: Activity Type under Activate components (see: Control Indicators).

If you want to assign costs to activity types for G/L postings in Financial Accounting you should select Activity Type as an entry field in the field selection lists for the corresponding General Ledgers and posting keys. To do this, see Customizing for Financial Accounting, under Financial Accounting Global Settings ® Basic Settings ® Document ® Line item ® Controls ® Define Posting Keys and Maintain Field Status Variants).