Activity Independent Costs -Splitting Equally
Dear All,
When I try to split the Activity Independent Costs among various activity types ,Independent costs are being splitted equally among the activity types,even though I have selected splitting method as 12 (i.e. Activity Quantity) while configuring the splitting structure.
Actually the system should have splitted the independent costs based on Activity qty instead of splitting the costs equally.
Please help me out as how get the splitting of costs based activity qty.
Regards
Su
Hi
Your splitting structure has 2 parts
1. Where in you define rule.. here you defined rule based on 012 (Qct Qty)
2. You create Assignments and assign your splitting rule here... I hope you have assigned the splitting rule here in the assignments
3. I hope the fiscal year from which you assigned cost centers to splitting rule in OKEW is also in line
4. Also check if you defined your target cost version in case you are doing splitting based on actual cost (KSS2)
5. Also, in splitting rule, I hope you have assigned a cost element group containing all your cost elements to this group and also your activity types between whom the costs are to be split up (In the tab "Selection for assignment)"
Once you do this, activity indep costs split based on act qty only... (KSS2/KSS4)...
Regards
Ajay M
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