Converting Multiple GL accounts to cost elements

Hi,
Is there any transaction where I can convert the multiple GL accounts to Cost Element Active.
Thanks and Regards
Madhu Vutukuri

Hi,
As our friend Sivakumar mentioned you need to define which GL Account range you want to create as cost elements, what cost element category it should be in OKB2.
Once you define them you need to create batch input and execute batch input transactions from the following menu.
SPRO -> Controlling -> Cost Element Accounting -> Master Data -> Cost Elements -> Automatic Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements
This will be a first time activity to create cost elements. If you did the setting to create the cost elements automatically, it creates cost elements automatically based on the settings you created in OKB2.
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks,
Kiran

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1. If automatic creation of the cost element is selected in your chart of accounts then you check it out list in transaction OKB2 where there is less scope to miss the creation of cost elements.
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I have to generate a report by querying tables SKA1,SKB1,SKAT and CSKB.
Step 1.Firstly I have queried SKA1,
step 2. for the obtained SAKNR(GL Accounts) from step 1,I have queried SKB1 table
step 3. For the obtained SAKNR from step2, I have queried SKAT table.
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Please can you let me know the procedure to fetch the Cost element category(KATYP) from CSKB based on the above 3 steps?

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a cost element (primary cost element, thats what we are talkgin about as you want to join them to FI account numbers) is created per controlling area.
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Hi,
Does it make good sense that GL account description is 50 char while Cost element description is 40 char?

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Yes SAP standard is set G/L Account Long Text length is 50 char and Cost element description is 40 char. Something like doesn't make a good sense but truely it's SAP standard. : )
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Difference between GL Account and Cost Element associated

Hi,
In the system ECC6.0, due to modification it happens that there are some difference in the description between some GL account and their associated cost element.
Is there any way to have an automatic update in order to avoid this kind of problem.
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MAtthieu

Hi Matthieu,
Take a look at the OSS note 634887 and upload in your system the programs mentioned there.
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COGS accounts as cost elements

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1. If your client specifies that he needs the data to be transfered to Controlling, then COGS has to be created as a cost element with category-1.
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Cost Element and Profit center accounting

hi to all,
in my production system, most of PL accouts have been created as cost element. but some revenue and COGS accounts have not been created even there existed transaction data.
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I wanted to know which G/L accounts should be created as cost elements since there are some G/L accounts that are usually not created as cost elements. Wats the logic that one needs to keep in mind while creating cost centres?

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G/L accounts are of two types
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There is a standard functionality in SAP.....Follow below steps..
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Debit COGS (sales order assignment)
Credit Stock
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Edited by: Pixel8 ation on Aug 3, 2010 5:16 PM

Hi,
Sorry, I probably confused things by mentioning Revenue. Your settings are correct, with Revenue defined as a revenue element (11) rather than a cost element (1).
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