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.
Manual actual postings consist of the following:
Postings in financial accounting
Goods movements in materials management
Internal activity allocations in cost 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).
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
.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
.For more information on goods receipt, reservations and goods issue, see the SAP Library, under
.For more information on internal activity allocations, see Event-Based and Periodic Actual Postings
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.