Transfer Prices: Settlement and Results Analysis
Use
You use settlement to allocate some or all of the costs determined for an object to another object.
You can use results analysis to determine work in process (WIP) and cost of sales in the profit center valuation for the delivering cost element.
Integration
If you also use Profitability Analysis , you can settle the results analysis data in the profit center valuation to a Profitability Segment .
Preconditions
Settlement
You have defined a settlement rule in the service provider.
If you want to settle to profit center valuation, you must maintain a results analysis key for the relevant service provider.
Results Analysis
Choose a results analysis key which contains a valuation method with parameter Q for the project structure.
You must maintain a suitable results analysis key for the relevant service provider.
Note
Results analysis only takes account of service providers with results analysis keys. No settlement takes place for service providers without results analysis keys. The costs and revenues remain where they are.
Do not flag the service provider as a billing element.
Features
Settlement
If you have maintained a results analysis key for the service provider, settlement takes place in the profit center valuation. In the group valuation or the legal valuation, settlement is by way of the hierarchy, not in the service provider or transfer price receiver.
If no results analysis key has been maintained for the service provider, settlement takes place in the profit center valuation. The costs and revenues remain where they are. In the enterprise valuation and legal valuation, settlement is by way of the hierarchy to the ordering element from the transfer price agreement. No other settlement receivers are permitted.
Results Analysis
The system carries out results analysis in the profit center valuation.
In the other valuations, the system rolls the costs up to the next Profitability Analysis object.
The results analysis data from the transfer price agreement is only recorded in results analysis in the profit center valuation if the results analysis key in the WBS element covers profit center valuation.
Note
The system records the results analysis data for an internal billing element in the profit center valuation only. No results analysis data is recorded in the legal valuation or enterprise valuation.
Activities
Having carried out results analysis, you can settle the results analysis data to Profitability Analysis. In the case of internal revenues from transfer prices, only the profit center valuation is settled. This means you can analyze the result from the point of view of the profit center manager.