Checklist for Creating Cost Elements
You must fulfill the following prerequisites before you start creating cost elements:
You have created a
controlling area
, and assigned one or more company codes to it (see:
Maintain Controlling Areas
in Customizing for
General Controlling
)
.
The
company code(s)
assigned to the controlling area all use the same
chart of accounts
.
If you want to use a user-defined
cost element attribute mix, you have defined this in Customizing (IMG) for Cost Element Accounting (see:
Create cost element
).
You have created G/L accounts in Financial Accounting for the primary cost elements (see:
Create G/L accounts
, in Customizing for G/L accounts).
Check the existing search helps, if necessary, (see:
Define Search Helps for Cost Elements
in Customizing for
Cost Element Accounting
).
Checklist for Creating Cost Elements