During actual price calculation, the system calculates iterative prices for activity types or business processes based on actual costs and actual activities. The calculation takes into account all activity exchanges between cost centers or business processes.
Price calculation , which you can carry out during planning, is based on planned costs and activity. The resulting prices are used to valuate actual activity.
After running actual price calculation, you can choose to revalue actual activity at actual prices. This revaluates the activity using the difference between plan and actual prices. By revaluing the actual activity with actual prices, you can fully balance sender cost centers and sender business processes.
Note
A reposting of internal activity allocation can also be carried out in a different period (see: Reposting Internal Activity Allocation ). Due to the negative activity flow between the old receiver and the sender, the old receiver may contain a negative quantity.
During reposting of internal activity allocations in other periods, then, use cumulated price calculation because other types of price calculations will produce inconsistent results (see Price Calculation Methods ).
If you are working with transfer prices (parallel value flows) actual price calculation and recalculation are possible in all valuations. In the output list of the price calculation, you can choose to display the prices in all valuations.
For more information on transfer prices, see
Multiple Valuation Approaches in Overhead Cost Controlling
and also the
SAP Library
under
You must meet the following requirements before you can recalculate actual activity at actual prices:
Activate the relevant indicator in the version
In the fiscal year parameters for the
version , you can specify the method of price calculation (see
Price Calculation Methods
), or whether to allow recalculation of actual activities with actual prices, and how the recalculation is to be executed. The
Recalculation
field controls the recalculation of actual activity at actual prices. See
in Customizing for
Cost Center Accounting
or
in Customizing for
Activity Based Costing.
You have the following options:
Recalculation in a special business transaction
The system posts the difference between the plan and actual allocation valuations using a separate business transaction (actual price calculation). This makes it easier to track variances between valuations using actual and plan prices.
Recalculation in the original transaction
The system posts the recalculation in the original transaction. The variances between calculations at actual and plan prices can then no longer be tracked. Use this option if you do not have plan prices, meaning the original allocation was not valuated.
Maintain the price indicator in activity type planning or process output planning
The system takes default values from activity type master data for the plan and actual price indicators (see
Activity Type Category
and
Processing Activity Types
) or the business process master record (see
Price Indicators
). You can change both indicators when planning, providing no plan values exist. However, you must use a planning layout with the characteristics
Actual price indicator
and
Plan price indicator
(see
Standard Planning Layout
).
If you do not fill the
Actual price indicator
field, the system automatically valuates activity using the plan price.
Note
If you need to split the costs on activity types or business processes and divide them into fixed and variable portions (say, for reporting), you should carry out actual splitting with update before you carry out the actual price calculation (see Actual Cost Splitting ).
You can also carry out splitting during actual price calculation. To do so, select
Execute actual splitting internally
in the
Settings for Price Calculation
. Note, however, that this procedure does not post the splitting data.
If the activity receivers are orders, you must recalculate the orders before you carry out the price calculation with recalculation using actual prices. To do so, go to the
Internal Orders
initial screen and choose
To carry out actual price calculation, from the Cost Center Accounting menu or Activity Based Costing menu, choose:
See also:
Note
For more information on how to calculate actual prices and interpret the results, see also:
Calculating Actual Activity at Actual Prices
Price Calculation With Cost Component Split