Topic Area

This topic area comprises all Business Warehouse reports for analyzing cost centers in Controlling/Cost Management.

Structure

Tasks in the Business Information Warehouse

There are two types of reports in Cost Center Accounting: Analysis reports and regular reports. While the tasks of a cost accountant include ongoing analysis of the company’s cost centers, the cost center manager is interested in periodic information on the particular cost center(s) for which he or she is responsible.

Depending on whether this person is responsible for one or more cost centers, they require detail or area reports.

The reports provide answers to questions such as the following:

These questions can be answered by the following reports:

Additional task areas, particularly for employees in Controlling:

To accomplish these tasks, BW provides Business Content information in the form of workbooks. Each task corresponds to a cluster of one or more workbooks. The workbooks contain one or more queries that yield the relevant information.

For background information on the concept of roles, refer to Roles in Controlling .

The following workbooks are available for Cost Center Accounting tasks:

In the section Use in the relevant InfoCubes, also check whether the workbook can be used in your company:

Integration

Roles are also available for the following topic areas in Controlling:

Management: Cost Centers (Regular Reports)

Management: Plant Controlling (Regular Reports)

Activity-Based Costing

Internal Orders

Inventory Valuation

Product Cost Planning

Production Cost Management