Displaying Line Items in Profitability Analysis 

Use

The costs and revenues are attained under record type C (order and project settlement) in Profitability Analysis through the settlement of the service contract.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Controlling ® Profitability Analysis ® Information System ® Display Line Item List ® Actual

    Transaction Code

    KE24

    If you are processing an operating concern in this session for the first time, the Set Operating Concern dialog box appears.

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Operating concern

    IDEA

    Type of profitability analysis

    Costing-based

  3. Choose .

    4. This dialog box is only displayed once per session. Once you have made your selection, the system assumes that you will only work in this operating concern and type in this session.

  4. Enter the following data:
    5.

    Field

    Data

    Currency type

    B0

    Date created

    Today’s date

    Entered by

    Your user name

  5. Choose .
  6. Choose .

    7. You can see that the item with record type C has been posted from service management to CO-PA through settlement.

  7. Double-click on this line item.

    8. You now see, for example, the customer name and the organizational units.

    The item reference is actually the material number for the service product. You see the corresponding assignments to a plant, profit center level, and so on.

    Here you can see all the characteristics that can be analyzed in Profitability Analysis. The values for these characteristics were derived from the customer and material master records, the SD partner functions (such as the sales representative), or from CO-PA specific characteristics.

    Note that the list of characteristic values is displayed over several screens. To scroll through the characteristics, choose .

  8. Choose the Value fields tab page.
  9. To scroll down, choose .

    10. You can see detailed information about the order and billed quantities, revenues, discounts, and detailed product cost components that were derived from SD and CO-PC. Note that the list of value fields spans several screens.

    Revenue is made up of the total from contract billing and the total from the billing of the service order assigned to the contract (although the latter is only involved if you integrated the process Service Processing and Resource-Related Billing with Service Contracts into the current process).

    Customer discount is calculated from the total of sales deductions posted during contract billing or during the billing of the service order assigned to the contract (although the latter is only involved if you integrated the process Service Processing and Resource-Related Billing with Service Contracts into the current process).

    Sales commission is calculated by valuating anticipated costs from Profitability Analysis.

    Material usage is made up of the costs that were generated through the use of materials for the service order (although only if you integrated the process Service Processing and Resource-Related Billing with Service Contracts into the current process).

    Maintenance costs represent any service technician charges (although only if you integrated the process Service Processing and Resource-Related Billing with Service Contracts into the current process).

  10. Choose until the overview tree appears.