Copa-doubts

Dear SAP Experts,
I have few doubts in copa and would appreciate your response in regards of that.
1. Actually i have configured costing based copa at client side with standard costing i.e actual costing / material ledger is not activated. Now the question is whether copa value fields will be updated with actual value or only standard value with price diffrence be updated in value fields.
2. All the expenditure which posted to cost centers and further assessed thru ksu5 in month end. How these expenditure will flow to copa value fields.
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Regards / Ashok verma
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Hi,
1. Actually i have configured costing based copa at client side with standard costing i.e actual costing / material ledger is not activated. Now the question is whether copa value fields will be updated with actual value or only standard value with price diffrence be updated in value fields.
COPA value fields will be updated with standard value only.
To update price difference in value fields ML should be active. Then at period end you can run revaluation KE27 to update the price differences
2. All the expenditure which posted to cost centers and further assessed thru ksu5 in month end. How these expenditure will flow to copa value fields.
It should be KEU5 (not KSU5). Here in KEU1 you define the cycle i.e. the receivers (characteristics) and senders (cost centers).
Using the other configuration parameters you can decide how the value fields will be populated.
It is difficult to explain the entire logic in a short message. You should try this in test system .create a cycle using KEU1 and then run it using KEU5. This will create record type D in COPA.
regards
Waman

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Karol W

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with the title.This title doesn't seem to be
appropriate. "Data Copying" which is the title in the
previous relases docs sounds more appropriate where
this CTAS is given as an example not as a sole way.Again, I agree. It is all a matter of [mis-]interpretation and perspective.

Copa-doubts

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