Generating Cost Collectors 

Use

You have to release cost collectors for account assignment so that service charges can be assigned to the settlement unit using invoice receipt posting (Financial Accounting FI).

You use this function to edit the account assignment approval of settlement periods and influence their status.

or go to the settlement unit processing screen under Cost Collector.

1. Choose Generate Cost Collector.

In the initial screen, define which cost collector you wish to generate and choose Execute (F8).

2. In the displayed list, select the cost collector to be generated and choose Generate (F5).
3. The system offers further processing options:

If you want to	Then
Assign the locked system status to certain settlement units or cancel the lock	Select the object and choose Lock (F7) or Undo (F8). Note: you cannot post to locked cost collectors
Display details on a settlement unit, participation group or error message	Place your cursor on the object and choose Choose (F2)
Display additional information on the system status of a cost collector	Place your cursor on the cost collector and choose Choose (F2) You branch to Status display
Change the period of the displayed cost collector Note: the cost collectors are displayed only up to the valid-to date of the SU	Choose Change period
Make an entry for each cost collector in the cost collector memo book that can be printed in the correspondence function	Choose Cost Collector Memo Book to the left of each cost collector