Costing variant/valuation variant

dear gurus,
    can any body explain the costing variants,valuation variant,costing sheet,costing type,how it is integrated in production order in controlling tab.can any body explains the customizing part of product costing and overview.
if any body is having the product costing material please send to [email protected]
    please through some light on product costing
                                                                        -gide

Hi,
Every cost estimate we create is based on the costing variant.
In the costing variant we define the control parameters and settings for costing
  Settings contains info such as prices that will be used to cost the materials and activities
Control parameters are used for the automatic determination of of qty str ie Bom and Routing
Every costing variant contains a valuation variant and a costing type , date control , qty str control.
Valuation variant:
Valuation variant defines the price with which the material and activities are valuated
determines 1.which price is taken from material masterrecord to calculate the material cost
2.
which price is taken from cost center accounting to calculate the costs for internal activities
3. which price is taken from purchasing info rec to calculate the the costs for ext activities / subcontracting
4. which costing sheet is used to calculate the over head costs
Costing type:
costing type defines the valuation view to be costed and defines the purpose of costing.
Date control :
       controls the validity of the cost estimste , qty str date.
Valuation class:
For material costing the valuation class controls the cost element to which the planned cost of the material are assigned and the cost element under which the actual costs are updated when the material produced is delivered to stock
Valuation category:
  specified the criteria according to which partial stocks are distinguished from one another
Price control indicator:
  the price control indicator specifies whether the stock of the material is valuated with standard price or moving avg price
  costing sheet:
            The costing sheet links all the functions for overhead calculation.
    In the costing sheet we determine the following
    1.The direct costs to which the over head is applied
    2.The condition under which the over head is applied
    3.Whether the over head is applied as a percentage basis or on a qty basis
    4.The amt of overhead percentage
    5.The validity period of the over head
    6.Which object is credited ( order , cost center) and which cost element in the case of actual posting
   We enter  the costing sheet in the valuation variant in customising
Regards,
nandha

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