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Prerequisites

You are in the cumulation run

Procedure

Function

Menu Path

Useful Information

Creating a Cumulation Run

  1. Choose Costing Run ® Create
  2. Choose General Data ® Cumulation Data
  3. Specify the initial period for the cumulation run
  4. If a closing entry required, set the indicator Posting Run
  5. Choose Create Following Run, if a follow-on run for the cumulation run should be created
  6. Select appropriate versions for the legal, company, and/or profit center valuations
  7. Select whether planned or actual prices are to be used for the valuation of activities and business processes
  8. Choose a valuation alternative to use for the ending inventory valuation
  9. Choose the tab Assign Plants and assign the relevant plants to the run

Steps 4 to 8 are optional

Structure linkPerforming a Selection

   

Cumulate

  1. Under Process and Cumulate choose Parameters
  2. Specify the processing options
  3. When dealing with large amounts of data you can have the system perform the function in the background
  4. Save the variant and choose Execute

Result

The system adds all receipts, consumption and price differences together over all of the periods to be cumulated

Structure linkDetermining the Costing Sequence

   

Structure linkPerforming Single-Level Material Price Determination.

   

Determining Prices

  1. Under Process and Determine Prices choose Parameters
  2. Specify the processing options
  3. You can execute the function in the background for large amounts of data
  4. Save the variant.
  5. Choose Execute.

Prerequisites

  • You have set activity update indicator 2 (Activity update relevant for material price determination). This is done in Customizing under Actual Costing/Material Ledger - Activate Actual Costing
  • You have chosen Actual Prices in the initial cumulation screen

 

Result

The System determines cumulated actual prices for the cumulation time period

Structure linkPerforming Multilevel Price Determination

   

Performing Delta Postings

  1. Under Process and Delta Postings choose Parameters
  2. Specify the processing options
  3. You can perform the function in the background for large amounts of data
  4. Save the variant.
  5. Choose Execute.

Prerequisites

  • You have made the closing entry for the cumulated periods
  • You have executed the single and multilevel price determination and also completed the price calculation
  • You are in a cumulation run to be posted

Result

The system has calculated a cumulative periodic moving average price In this step of the cumulation run, the System determines the difference between the cumulative periodic moving average price and the periodic moving average price. No postings to Financial Accounting are made during this step.

Displaying Delta Postings

Choose the delta postings view.

Double click on a node to display all delta postings for this node in the lower right area of the screen.

 

Performing/Reversing a Closing Entry

  1. Under Process and Post Closing choose Parameters.
  2. Choose processing type.
  3. Save the variant.
  4. Choose Execute.

Prerequisites

You have

  • Determined single level and multilevel prices
  • Calculated the prices
  • Determined the delta postings

 

Results: Closing Entry

The System posts the difference between the cumulated periodic moving average price and the periodic moving average price to a delta account in Financial Accounting

Results: Reversal

The System reverses the posting to the delta account

Structure linkMarking Prices for Future Valuation

   

 

 

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