To change cost elements in collective processing, choose  Accounting Controlling Cost Element Accounting (or  Cost Center Accounting) Master data Cost element Collective processing Display.

You can select cost elements by the following criteria:

You save selection criteria for the cost element selection in the selection variant. You can use the selection variant to select all cost elements with the same entries in one or more master data fields.

You can create, change or display the selection variants at this point.

Select one of the criteria and enter the appropriate selection parameters.

Enter a time period in which the selected cost elements are valid.

Cost elements for display must exist in the selected time period. However, you can make a selection even if the validity period for the cost element overlaps with the selected time period.

Choose Execute .

The system displays a list of all the selected cost elements.

The detail list display takes place with the ABAP List Viewer (see: ABAP List Viewer ). You can display, sort and filter the data offered by the ABAP List Viewer.

To simplify future selections you can build groups from the cost elements contained in the list. To do this, choose Create group and enter a key and a description for the new cost element group.