Displaying the Effects of Vendor Items on Cost Center Accounting in sap

Use

All of the earlier process steps assumed that you were working in the accounts payable department. You now see what the cost center manager sees when an invoice is posted to their cost center. You execute a cost center report, and drill down to the source documents in accounts payable.

Procedure

1. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Accounting ® Controlling ® Cost Center Accounting ® Information System ® Reports for Cost Center Accounting ® Plan/Actual Comparisons ® Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance
Transaction Code	S_ALR_87013611, KSB1

2. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Controlling area	1000	2000
Fiscal year	Current year	Current year
From period	001	001
To period	012	012
Plan version	0	0
Or value(s)	1000	1000

3. Choose .

The system issues a cost center report with a total for each posted cost element.

4. Double-click on cost element 476900 (Miscellaneous costs).

In the dialog box, you see a list of all reports in which you can execute a drilldown.

5. Double-click on Cost Centers: Actual Line Items.

You now see a list of CO line items for cost center 1000.

6. Choose Settings
® Layout ® Select.

The Choose Layout dialog box appears.

7. Choose the Primary Cost Posting variant.
8. Double-click on one of your posted documents.
9. Choose until the overview tree appears.

In the Display Actual Line Items for Cost Centers dialog box, choose Yes.

In the Exit Report dialog box, choose Yes.

If you are asked whether to save an extract, choose No.