Activity Allocation and Overhead
Use
You can charge activity allocation, as well as overhead, to projects and internal orders.
Features
Overhead
In order to calculate overhead on an order or project, you have to supply the key of the costing sheet that you want to use. You enter this key in your investment measure (order, project). For more information, see the documentation for the Project System (PS) and Overhead Orders (CO-OM-OPA).
Internal Activity Allocation
Internal activity is charged from the cost center directly to the investment measure. The system uses an activity price that was set either automatically in cost center accounting, or manually.
Enter the sender cost center, the activity type, and the amount — usually the number of hours. Also enter the investment measure for which the activity was performed. During activity price calculation in cost center accounting, you already set the activity price. The investment measure is charged accordingly. For example: cost center 4100 (technical services) provided 10 hours of activity type 1410 (construction hours) for an investment measure. If the activity price for this activity type is 70 per hour in this cost center, then the investment measure is charged 700.
Overhead and internal activity allocation are secondary cost elements. You cannot settle secondary cost elements by cost element to assets, since they do no have a corresponding FI expense account. Therefore, you have to use a settlement cost element for settling these debits. For more information, see
See also:
Posting Activity Allocation