Procedure
1. On the Cost Center Accounting initial screen, choose Information system
® Reports for Cost Center Accounting.2. Select the desired report and start it.
3. Make entries in the selection screen as described in
Executing Report Painter Reports.4. If you activated variation in the report definition, the Variation screen appears for variation maintenance.
5. In the dialog box Additional Entries: Variation you decide which nodes and/or
Cost Centers from the selected Cost Center Group are released. The default settings from the dialog box are based on the entries from report definition:If you choose the indicator Do not breakdown, only one report for the highest node of the selected group is released.
If you choose the indicator Breakdown, reports are released for all nodes and cost centers.
If you choose the indicator Individual values, reports are released exclusively for the individual cost centers in the group.
6. If you wish to make additional special settings for variation, choose Detail.
7. Enter the variation area in the following dialog box.
The variation area contains the hierarchy levels in the report. A hierarchy level represents a level in the cost center group which you have selected for the report. The top node in the cost center group is located on hierarchy level 1. Cost centers represent the lowest level. They are always on a hierarchy level that has a value greater than 1. By setting an interval of 1-3, you establish a variation executed for the highest three hierarchy levels in the cost center group.
The numbering of the variation levels goes from highest to lowest (top-down). The summarization levels in a report, on the other hand, are numbered from lowest to highest (bottom up). The number of asterisks (*) before a report row identifies the summarization level. The manner of viewing a variation is thus different from that for the summarization levels.
8.
Activate or deactivate the Individual value indicator.The Individual value indicator determines whether the variation should be carried out to the cost center level.
The following relationship exists for variation indicators and variation area/individual value.
Indicator |
Variation Area |
Individual value |
Breakdown |
1 to 99 |
Active |
Individual values |
1- |
Active |
Do not breakdown |
1 to 1 |
Inactive |
If the entry from report definition or the last entry for the variation is identical to one of the indicators, the dialog box is displayed with the corresponding indicator when variation maintenance is called up.
If Individual values was chosen, this setting is displayed in the variation maintenance dialog box and in the corresponding detailed screen, but this cannot be changed. The reports will always be executed only for the cost centers in the selected cost center group.
If the entry from report definition or the last entry for the variation is identical to one of the indicators, the dialog box will be displayed with the corresponding indicator when variation maintenance is called up.