COPA Assessment

Question

Dear All,
We have some costs like salaries,travel & tour ,Admin and Sales & Marketing Costs etc .
As you all know that the above said costs are posted to relevant cost centers and now we want to allocate the costs to COPA through assessment as we don't have the option of Distribution in COPA.
I need some help on the following points:
1.While defining the CYCLE for COPA ,in the header screen of Cycle,there is a field to enter TF Basis (i.e. 1 -Costing Based
and 2- Account based) .I have selected 2 (account based) and allocated the costs.When we allocate the  costs by account based,then we can't see the these allocated costs in the Costing based COPA Reports.
Is there any option for allocation of costs in both the types of COPA ,so that we can get the costs in both the types of COPA Reports.    
2.In the Sender / Receiver tab,we have so many receivers like Products,Product Group,Customer ,Customer Group ,Sales Orgn and Plant Etc.
If we select all the above receivers for assessment,then the system throws a message that maximum 9999 receivers are possible for assessment.
How to solve this issue or should we asses the costs to only one receiver.
If we asses the costs to only one receiver ,let us take materials group,then it is not possible to see the allocated costs for other receivers like product wise,product group wise,customer wise,customer group wise and plant wise in the drill down report,when we run KE30.
Please help me on the above said points  .
Regards
Su

Answer 1

Hi,
about point 1: this indicator refer to the tracing factor. If you want to allocate costs based on value fields, you shall set costing based, if you want to allocate cost using accounts as driver, you shall set account based.
about point 2: can you try to split the process in two step, first assessing the costs to product families and then to product using top-down distribution (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/7a/4c3ccf4a0111d1894c0000e829fbbd/content.htm).
Regards,
Paolo