Posting Overheads in FI to a Cost Center 
Use
In this process, you post salary costs for the managers of the following areas:
· Finance
· Marketing
· Production
You will see how you can post to the same cost element in different cost centers. The values are displayed in different items in your profit and loss statement. The salaries of the managers of Finance and Marketing are displayed as operating expenses; the salary of the Production manager is displayed as cost of goods sold.

In this example, you post the Production manager's salary to a cost center. To complete the repetitive manufacturing example, you have to apportion the Production manager's salary to all orders open for a specific period. When production is offset against inventory, these salary costs would be part of the inventory valuation. We will not carry out this integration in order to demonstrate that you can post to a cost element, and to show that the value concerned can appear in different items in the profit and loss statement.
Procedure
Menu Path |
Accounting ® Financial Accounting ® General Ledger ® Document Entry ® Others ® General Posting |
Transaction Code |
F-02, FB03 |
Field |
Europe |
North America |
Document date |
Today’s date |
Today’s date |
Type |
SA |
SA |
Company code |
1000 |
3000 |
PstKy (posting key) |
50 |
50 |
Account |
176500 (Wages and salary clearing) |
176000 (Salaries and wages payable) |
.Field |
Europe |
North America |
Amount |
20,000.00 |
20,000.00 |
.To close any information dialog boxes that appears, choose
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Field |
Line |
Europe |
North America |
PK |
1 |
40 |
40 |
Account |
1 |
430000 |
430000 |
Amount |
1 |
6500.00 |
6500.00 |
Cost ctr |
1 |
2100 |
2100 |
PK |
2 |
40 |
40 |
Account |
2 |
430000 |
430000 |
Amount |
2 |
9000.00 |
9000.00 |
Cost ctr |
2 |
3140 |
3140 |
PK |
3 |
40 |
40 |
Account |
3 |
430000 |
430000 |
Amount |
3 |
4500.00 |
4500.00 |
Cost ctr |
3 |
4275 |
4275 |

Since the posting key and account number are identical for all the items, you only have to enter them for the first item. If you do not enter them in the other fields, the values are copied automatically from the first item.
.You can see the functional areas that the individual items were posted to.
More.
.The combination of functional area and cost element determines where the individual amounts appear in the profit and loss statement.
·
The salary of the Finance manager is included under Administrative Costs.·
The salary of the Sales and Distribution manager is included under Sales and Distribution Costs.·
The salary of the Production manager is included under Difference in Production Costs.
until the overview tree appears.In the Exit Editing dialog box, choose Yes.