Diff between cost element category 1 and 11

What will be the major difference if we create cost element under category 1 and under category 11.
I am facing one issue:
Sales commission expenses account - needs to be triggered while releasing sales invoice.
System is behaving differently if we create cost element category as 1 and 11.

Hi,
Cost element category 1 is used for primary cost and 11 is used for revenue cost element.
Sales commission is which have directly related to sales invoice i.e deductions then use cost element category 12 .
If your using category 1 then it should assign to cost center or internal order, if using category 11 or 12 then it should assign to Profit center.
Regards,
Sreekanth

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We are activating PS Cash Mgmt.
I want to know the difference between:
1. Maintaining the Cost Element Category as 1 and 11. Is it necessary to maintain 11 (Revenues) or maintaining 1 (Primary costs/cost-reducing revenues) will have same result.
2. In Comm. Item Financial Tran. maintained is 30. But for Commitment Item Cat. as 3 (Expenditures) or 2 (Revenues) only to be assigned for revenue.
Our Client is asking to maintain everything as 3 (Expenditures) to all the commitment items. What will be the effect on PS Cash Management if I use Cost Element Category as 1 & Commitment Item Cat. as 3 ?
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Hi,
Cost element category as 1 and commint Item caterory 3 holds good for all expenses, so you can use this, with this when you process Invoice In MIRO a Project cash management document will get generated and this will update the report against the payments in CJIA as well in S_ALR_87013574 reports etc.
Combination for creating commitment items is
Cost element category 1 --> Commitment item category as 3 and Financial Transaction as 30
Cost element category 11--> Commitme nt Item category as 2 and Financial Trns as 30.
Note : what ever the G/L accounts created wrt Chart of accounts, whether it is Expenses or Inventory or Revenues, you have to assign commitment item in the G/L Master in Create/bank/interest tab in field commitment item. If it is not assigned in all modules you will get error as commitment item not assigned.
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Seconday Cost element Category Uses and Importance.

Hi ,
Can any one explain me the seconday cost element uses and importance in cost accounting ?
Especially for the Cost element categories
21-Internal setellment.
42-Assesment.
43.Internal Activity allocation.
32-Order/Project result analysis.
when to use which cost element Category and examples.
I understand in the Cost sheet for the Overhead Calculation we use Seconday CE category 41.
But in the Allocation structure at the time of giving the Cost elements, i will get confused to assign the CE's.
This will be the great help.

Hi Prad,
21-Internal setellment - This category of cost element is used to settle the costs collected in a cost object to another cost object within Controlling. You cannot settle to FI or any toher Module using this category of Cost Element
42-Assesment
Assessment is a type of allocation of costs from one cost object to another cost object say from one cost center to another cost center.
In case of Distribution, the cost gets allocated using the origical cost elements. hence the origin of the cost will never be lost
But in case of assessment, you need to allocate the costs using a seperate cost element with category 42. In this case, the cumulative cost collected is allocated to another cost center unsing this assessment cost element. Hence the origin of the cost is not retained.
From a business requirement perspective, we need to use distribution for allocating the service costs to real cost centers. After that we need to use Assessments
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Using this type of cost element, we can plan, calculate the prices of activities and obsorb the costs to Production Orders, Service orders etc.
this plays very crucial role in cost obsorption in product costing or sevice costing areas
32-Order/Project result analysis.
One of the most important and complex area in Product costing would be Calculation of WIP/Result Analysis.
We will be able to calculate and settle the WIP or Result analysis value to FI only by using Cost elements created with Category 32
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Link between Cost element GL Account and WBS element.

Hi,
I want to get the List of all dollars sitting on the GL account attached to the selected WBS element.
For this, Any one please suggest me the table where i can get the link between the WBS element and GL account.
or
Table for link between the Cost element and GL account
and Table for link between the Cost element and WBS element.
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Suresh.

Hi,
1. There is no link between cost element and WBS
2. Link between cost element and G/L account is one-to-one. This means, that if it's a primary cost element it has the same code as the G/L account. If it's a secondary element, no link exists.
3. The table where you can see the postings on your WBS is COEP. There you will find the cost element, WBS, amounts, etc.
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Cost element category 11 problem

Dear Experts,
While creating PR using GL account xxxx this error message appears:
Revenue cannot be assigned to CTR xxxx//2222
Message no. KI 295
Diagnosis
The given object is not a valid additional account assignment for revenue or debit postings.
Procedure
In this transaction only use additional account assignments that allow revenue postings.
I've check through KA03, the CE category is "revenue" (category 11). I've tried using another CE (e.g: CE category 1)to creating PR and its works.
How to fix this issue since the user still want to use the CE with category 11?
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1) One Chart Of Accounts has one or more Controlling Areas. Is there any situation where One Controlling Area contains many Chart Of Accounts.
2) CSKA Table contains all the Cost Elements under the Chart Of Accounts. So does all these Cost Elements appear under CSKB Table. Are there any Cost Elements which doesn't fall under any of the Controlling Area and only exists under Chart Of Accounts Level in CSKA Table.
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5) Are there any Company Codes under the Chart Of Accounts which doesn't belong to any of the Controlling Area and doesn't have any Cost Elements.

Hi,
1) One Chart Of Accounts has one or more Controlling Areas. Is there any situation where One Controlling Area contains many Chart Of Accounts. Never
One controlling area can be assigned to many company codes, but all must have been assigned to the same chart of accounts only. This is the pre requisite for the so called cross company controlling
2) CSKA Table contains all the Cost Elements under the Chart Of Accounts. So does all these Cost Elements appear under CSKB Table. Are there any Cost Elements which doesn't fall under any of the Controlling Area and only exists under Chart Of Accounts Level in CSKA Table.
If some data exists in CSKA table, it mean that, it must have been created as a CE in any of the controlling area
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In CSKB, you wont get the correspondant COA for the given controlling area. If you want to know it pass field value CSKB-KOKRS to table field TKA01-KTOPL to get the assigned COA
4) In CSKB Table Cost Element Category depends on both Cost Element and Controlling Area. So does a Cost Element can be Primary Cost Element for one Controlling Area which happens to be GL Account and Secondary Cost Element for some controlling Areas.
You cannot create a secondary cost elemant using a key matching with an GL code in cross company controlling. In case of both company codes assigned to different controlling areas this can be possible
5) Are there any Company Codes under the Chart Of Accounts which doesn't belong to any of the Controlling Area and doesn't have any Cost Elements.
Only In case of CO module is not active for the a company code
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Step 1.Firstly I have queried SKA1,
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step 3. For the obtained SAKNR from step2, I have queried SKAT table.
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I have costing based copa and I am running make to stock scenario.
SD team added new condition type in their pricing.
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We are a financing business and generally split our P&L into Income, Expenses and Bad Debt. Currently all cost elements under Bad Debt are defined as 1 Primary Cost Elements but this means that the business need to enter a cost centre when posting to the accounts.
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Hi
Go through the link given below :
Cost Center , Cost element , GL Accounts , Cost sheet , Account Assignment
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_cost_centre_accounting_and_cost_element_accounting_in_SAP_controlling
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Sum1 Please tell me the Table to extract Cost element category (SAP ). Cost element category should be unique key?

Hi,
I don't see the cost element categ in CSKA (chart of account based).
Better try CSKB (controlling area based.
The Domain is KATYP and you can find cost element categ description in its value range
[genereic extraction possible for these texts...]
hope that helps...
Olivier.
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