Instance where Secondary Cost Element Linked to GL also

Hello Gurus,
What are the instances where secondary cost element is a GL also.
Regards
Rohit

Dear Rohit,
You will not find any instances were secondary cost element is linked to GL.
Secondary cost element can be use within co. Linking cost element to GL means integration between FI and CO.
That can be possible only for General Ledger (FI) and Primary cost element (CO)
Rupesh Kumar Singh

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Line item report on secondary cost element (cat - 21)

Hi Gurus,
Secondary cost element with category 21 is used for internat settlement from order to wbs or wbs to cost center. But can we see line item report on this cost element. Or we cannot see any line item report on this cost element. it is just used for internal settlement purpose.
Please clear this doubt. thank you

Hi Mohit,
I hope you can have line item report @ order and WBS element stright away...
for orders use: KOB1 transaction code for actual line items, where you have the facility of entering CE or CE group to find the vaues related to particular cost elements in the order. If you are flexible with CEs related to 21, give there otherwise create a CE group specific to 21 category and enter the group and find the results you want.
same way for WBS elements/projects: we have transaction code CJI3 for actual line items, here also we can enter CE or CE groups
Not only for actual line items, we have the option of viewing plan line items, budget line items, and commitment line items @ both order and WBS level with different transaction codes other than mentioned above, like KOB2, KOB3, CJI4, CJI2 etc
I hope it helps a lot if I understand your query right
Regards..
Jose

Secondary Cost Element Values doesn't display in Profit Center Report

Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem with our Profit Center plan/actual/variance reports wherein it doesn't display the postings I made to the Secondary cost element when I executed an assessment cycle (KSU5). I already set in the configuration that all postings to be done in the cost centers, should have a parallel posting to the profit center assigned to it. I can see the postings in my cost center reports, but not in my profit center report. Could I have missed out on any procedure to enable the secondary cost element parallel posting in my profit centers? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

it might be the configuration of the library or some parameter in the report (record type should be 0 and 2 for actual values, where 2 stands for distributed values and 1 and 3 for planned values)
but it also might be that the reconciliation is done between different CC and same PC
- check your CC organisation asignment
- if sender cost center and receiver cost center have tha same PC it is probably the reason
- I had that problem my self and didn't solve it
cheers
matej

Report on Secondary cost elements

Hi all,
Can any one tell me how to see line item report on the secondary cost element that are used in asessment cyles and also how to display the documents that are generated for these secondary cost elements after running the asessment cycles.
Thanks

Hi MKR,
I am assuming that your assessment cycles are tied to cost center as senders, so even though you don't look by assessment cycle you could use transaction S_ALR_87013611. Set the selection criteria for the Controlling Area, month year/period combination and version you need, leave the cost center fields blank and enter as cost element the secondary cost element(s) of your cycles. After executed, double click on the total actual cost amount associated individually to each cost element and an additional screen would be displayed, from where you can select the option to display actual line items report. The list of line items is displayed. If you have the ALV functionality additional columns can be added in the display to segregate the information based, transaction type, origin, etc.
Hope it helps , if it does please award points.
Thanks,
GG

Secondary cost element........

Hi,
Is it necessary to create number of activities = to number of secondary cost element.
or
only one cost element is enough for all activities for posting to cost center.
Regards,
Imran

Dear,
Secondary Cost Element
When cost element carries cost with in CO, then they are called secondary cost element.
Example.... - Take Product Costing
On manufacture of the goods the cost of the above product (production order) is arrived at accumulating material cost + operational cost + overheads (%), additive cost if any.
The cost of operation is accumulated in cost centre be it production / production service / service cost centres, while booking FI entries.
Those operational cost has to be allocated to production order based on operational activities carried on and its cost involved in it. Those operation activities in CO are termed as activity types and has to link the same in KP26 with rates and cost centre (ie., sender cost centre and receiver production order).
In order to find the production order cost, the allocation of cost from sender cost centre to production order for the operational activities carried on and its cost associated with it, have to be loaded, hence in CO the cost centre allocate that portion of operational cost to production order, and this cost is carried by a cost element (since there are no FI involvement and entries are flowing within CO by crediting sender cost centre and debiting receiver production order a cost element has to be created.... say "Operational Cost - Activity" the entry will be
Operational Cost - Activity (Production Order) Dr Rs.XX
To Operational Cost - Activity (Cost Centre) Cr Rs.XX
The entries are with in CO. And the cost element created is secondary since it does not has an link with GL Account in FI correspondingly.
In CO the production order and cost centre are co object including but not limited to.
and further notes and configs see below link.
http://www.copacustomhelp.state.pa.us/infopak/nav/finance/controlling/301/index.htm
Hope clear to you.
Regards,
R.Brahmankar

Secondary cost element report

Hi experts,
i just looking for secondary cost element reports ?
regards,
Sanju M S

HI,
Go to T.code : S_SL0_21000007 and,
Go to bellow link
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/SettlementandCostElementReports
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/a9/ab76ce414111d182b10000e829fbfe/content.htm
Thanks,
Raviteja

Secondary Cost Element Setting Criteria

Hello all SAP usrs
I am quite green for Controlling.
I have a question need all your help.
Could I know what criteria to be used to set secondary cost element? Also I would like to know the usage of the secondary cost element. Please share some knowledge on it. Thanks!
Best Regards！
Gavin

Hi Gavin
Secondary cost elements are like production costs, material overheads, production overheads, they can be created and administered in only CO. These are used in internal cost allocation, overhead calculation, settlement transactions., it does not flow to FI...
When cost element carries cost with in CO, then they are called secondary cost element.
Example.... - Take Product Costing
On manufacture of the goods the cost of the above product (production order) is arrived at accumulating material cost + operational cost + overheads (%), additive cost if any.
The cost of operation is accumulated in cost centre be it production / production service / service cost centres, while booking FI entries.
Those operational cost has to be allocated to production order based on operational activities carried on and its cost involved in it. Those operation activities in CO are termed as activity types and has to link the same in KP26 with rates and cost centre (ie., sender cost centre and receiver production order).
In order to find the production order cost, the allocation of cost from sender cost centre to production order for the operational activities carried on and its cost associated with it, have to be loaded, hence in CO the cost centre allocate that portion of operational cost to production order, and this cost is carried by a cost element (since there are no FI involvement and entries are flowing within CO by crediting sender cost centre and debiting receiver production order a cost element has to be created.... say "Operational Cost - Activity" the entry will be
Operational Cost - Activity (Production Order) Dr Rs.XX
To Operational Cost - Activity (Cost Centre) Cr Rs.XX
The entries are with in CO. And the cost element created is secondary since it does not has an link with GL Account in FI correspondingly.
In conclusion there is need to creatre a secondary cost element when when you want to disribute the cost with in CO module not in FI
Reagrds,
RKD

Using Primay cost element instead of secondary cost element for expenses tr

Hai SAP Guru
WE are developer company, so when a land is acquired we create the project under business development with nomenclature "BD/LG/01" with corporate profit centre linked to it (as we are not sure if the project takes of due to various issues.)
When the project commences we create another project structure with nomenclature "BE/LG/01u201D with new profit centre.
So when we transfer the cost lying in u201C BD u201D project to u201C BE u201C project by giving settlement profile, the cost get transferred using secondary cost element. when we see the statement through CJI3 report the cost would have get transferred but when we
see the report through Finance Profit Centre report the cost would have not transferred.
So in order to get the report in profit centre, can we use primary cost element instead of secondary cost element, if we use the primary cost element what the consequence and what care needs to be taken for settlement.
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Display of secondary cost elements in KSB1

Hi
One of our customers wants to delete the view of Secondary Costs to a particular cost center in Actual View of Cost Line Items (through T Code KSB1). The costs flow to the secondary cost elements based on the activity type carried out. The system is calculating the total cost and then deducting the secondary costs again from the total cost as a result of which the overall costs are in the negative. The customer wants to display the total costs only and not the flow to the secondary cost elements, even, though the data is posted for the current fiscal year for the said cost elements.
Some transaction data already exists for the secondary cost element. We tried to changed the settings in allocation cost settings to Allocation Type 4, Manual Entry, no allocation for a future date, but still the costs are flowing to the cost element. Pls suggest a way out.
Would assign points if the problem is sorted.
regards
Sanil Bhandari

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Difference between type of Secondary Cost Element Category?

Hi,
I checked the system, and during the secondary cost element (CE) creation, I can select some of the CE category as follows:
21 Internal settlement
31 Order/project results analysis
41 Overheads
42 Assessment
43 Internal activity allocation
50 Project-related incoming orders: Sales
51 Project-related incoming orders: Other
52 Project-related incoming orders: Costs
61 Earned value
My question, what kind of report that I can read entries with these kind of CE?
Reason: I want to check what has been posted to these secondary CE.
Or
Could anyone explain the use of above-mentioned CE category in brief?
Thanks.

Cost element that is used to allocate costs for internal activities.
Most often used categories are
21 Internal settlement
(When ever an order is settled e.g internal order settling to cost center through this type of cost elements)
31 Order/project results analysis
(WIP in production orders are calculated and posted using this category)
41 Overheads
(Used in costing sheet to do an overhead allocation)
42 Assessment
(whenever cost is allocated between cost centers through allocation method - Assessment)
43 Internal activity allocation
(found in production orders when a routing activity is confimed the charge goes to the production order through this cost element)

Reports for display secondary cost element

Dear SAP consultant
After run settlement cycles we going to display reports for secondary
cost elements but it is return zero balance, i know that when i am trying
to drill down it will get the whole data. but it is not practical because
the huge amount of data that transferred to this report. In the other
hand it will display the data with +/- sign which is not be helpful.
Is there any report to display the result from settlement run on the
secondary cost elements.
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Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jan 12, 2011 4:12 PM

hi
goto S_SL0_21000007 > select as per your requirement > give Cost Element Group for Sec CE and execute
Kkumar

In controlling secondary cost element cost is considerble for financial rep

in controlling secondary cost element cost is it considerble for financial reporting requirment. In controlling for pm orders based on planning in kp26 they are booking man hours activity price. when at time of confirm of the order planning converted to actual.
Client is giving activity price based on primary cost, when we plan the activity price It will double booking what we incured in primary cost. let me clarify for financial report requirment can we consider secondary cost or not

Hi,
Secondory cost is a re allocation of Primary cost. It should not be considered if you are considering primary cost. Secondary cost is used for analysis and should not be confused with Primary cost
Ex. Cost gets collected to cost centers, The activity is a carrier which carries cost to Process/ production order. So that doent mean that the cost is gernerated twice once you book the financial and second when you acutally allocate the cost.
In controlling we allocate the cost in a more meaningful way to get the required analysis which will support the decision.
So both the cost should not be considered
This may be useful
Regards
Shantanu

Secondary Cost Element data in CO-PA

Hi,
I have a doubt in CO-PA, regarding the flow of secondary cost element costs.
I want to report the costs flowing through the Secondary cost elements (activity costs) in Profitability Analysis.
Can someone advise me on process to do this.
Thanks in Advance,
Safi

Hi,
Please define a group for Secondary cost elements or identify the secondary cost elements and define an Assesment cycle using KUU5 in that go to Extras-Cycles-Create and define the cycle and attach segment in cycle with appropriate sender and receivers and then execute the cycle to see the values flown into COPA
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Update Functional Area on Secondary Cost Element

Hi gurus,
I'm trying to update Functional Area on Secondary Cost Element. I've created a LSMW to make it but when I run the bacthinput the system give me a message in order to inform me that this changes might need a lot of time because there are several internal changes to do.
The problem is that no functional area is updating, and I'm trying with just an item and the system needs a lot of time to update just one Funcional Area, more than a hour!
So, I don't know if some of you already had the same problem or is a problem with performance of system, because in Develop System I didn't have any issue to update this information.
Is there any form to update this information than LSMS or Individual transaction?
Kr
Jorge

Hi Jorge
I was trying to change it manually in KA02 and there are tasks the systems does before confirming.
This is the root cause.
"Field changes to field Functional Area lead to
complicated tests of the data involved, which
may take some time. Do you really want to change
the field online? "
There is an option to change it in background.
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For financial report requirment can we consider secondary cost element cost

For financial reporting requirment can we consider secondary cost element cost to profit and loss a/c

In our senario _ cost is booking cost centers and revenues booking concern profit centers .
for Financial reporting requirment can I include secondary cost to profit and loss a/c
what is the impact on the report
exp: salary booking in primary cost,than Per hour man hour cost computed by costing dept for allocate to concern department
it is cost center activity price we specify in kp26 at the time of pm order confirm it will confim the activity quandity price will from planning area only, so for salaries in primary g/ls already captured, if we consider secondary it may double booking
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