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You use actual postings to enter actual costs that enable up-to-date monitoring of the costs incurred by the organization. In this way, you can identify any variances at an early stage and correct them.

Manual actual postings are the daily transaction-based postings of primary and secondary costs.

Actual postings create totals records and line items. A totals record summarizes all the costs posted to the internal order under a particular cost element. Line items consist of document rows created during posting, and document the individual posting transaction.

Features

Manual actual postings consist of the following:

  • Postings in financial accounting

  • Goods movements in materials management

  • Internal activity allocations in cost accounting

Postings in Financial Accounting

You can assign postings of primary costs directly to an internal order within Financial Accounting (for example, for external services and deliveries). The same applies to goods movements, if you are not using the Materials Management component (MM).

Goods Movements in Materials Management

In the MM component, you can make the following statistical postings to internal orders:

  • Purchase requisitions

  • Purchase orders

When you create a purchase order that is statistically posted to an internal order, a commitment is created on the order. The commitment is converted to actual costs when the goods are received. For more information see the SAP Library, under   Financials   Controlling   Internal Orders   CO - Commitments Management  .

  • Goods receipts

  • Reservations

  • Goods issues

    A goods issue that refers to a material reservation in which an internal order number is stored, automatically leads to the posting of actual costs on the internal order.

For more information on purchase requisitions and purchase orders, see the SAP Library, under   Logistics   MM Materials Management   MM - Purchasing  .

For more information on goods receipt, reservations and goods issue, see the SAP Library, under   Logistics   MM Materials Management   MM Inventory Management  .

Internal Activity Allocations in Cost Accounting

For more information on internal activity allocations, see Event-Based and Periodic Actual Postings

Constraints

To be able to post actual costs on an internal order, this must be allowed by the relevant business transaction.

For more information, see Status Management for Internal Orders.