Use
To allocate telephone costs, you should use the
periodic reposting allocation method. Periodic reposting has the advantage of requiring very little runtime to operate.Periodic reposting uses the original cost element, meaning the primary cost element remains intact. When you allocate telephone costs, the allocating cost center is unimportant for the receiving cost centers. The R/3 System therefore stores data records for periodic reposting in a way that uses less memory than for, say, distribution. The sender cost center is not updated with this method.
To allocate telephone costs in Controlling (CO), you can use the following allocation methods:
The allocation methods differ in the manner they transfer information from external accounting to internal accounting.
Procedure
To define a
periodic reposting, carry out the following steps:Creating Cycles
You can also create the cycles you require in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Cost Center Accounting. Under Actual Postings ® Period-End Closing ® Periodic Repostings, choose the IMG activity Define Periodic Repostings. In the dialog box, choose Create Actual Periodic Reposting.
Creating Segments
The posted actual values that were posted on the sender are to be allocated in full to the receivers. Therefore, you choose rule 1, Posted amounts and a Portion of 100%. In addition, you accept the default setting Actual values.
The tracing factor for periodic reposting is the number of telephone calls carried out by the receiver cost centers. These are variable portions. Therefore, under Tracing factors, you accept rule 1, Variable portions.
Since you are using a variable receiver tracing factor that is based on statistical key figures, enter a
5 under Type of variable portions (actual statistical key figure). You save the statistical key figure representing the number of telephone calls in the next step, "Determining Tracing Factors".Under Scaling negative tracing factors, accept the default setting of
1 (no scaling).
Defining Tracing Factors
You can specify the fields for sender and receiver data that are to be in the segment, and in the tracing factors in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Cost Center Accounting. Choose Actual Postings
For more information on creating cycles, see the IMG for Cost Center Accounting under Actual Postings ® Period-End Closing ® Periodic Repostings ® Define Periodic Repostings and under Definition of Periodic Repostings or Period-Based Allocations.