Issue of under absorption  and over absorption

Dear All,
Audit is going on in our client and auditor found that there is  and over absorption  of cost in cost center, which mean we are valuating our product at higher price and thus showing less profit in system.
They are referring the cost center report S_ALR_87013611 - Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance.
Example
Labour cost in primary cost element against cost center 1210 is Rs 5000
Power cost in primary cost element against cost center 1210 is Rs 25000
And activity cost corresponding to that cost element is
Labour   7000 Rs
Power  35000 Rs
So system is showing over absorption of  12000 (5000+25000-7000-35000)
So please suggest as how to correct this as auditor saying that absorption should be equal to Zero Always, and hence want to correct the price of material also.
Kindly suggest the solution for that.
Bittu

Thanks a lot Santosh for your reply
from that many days  i am working on your solution but not able to understand how system is calculating the Total Price it the time of KSII
I give an example kindly have a look at it.
In T-code S_ALR_87013611
Cost Elements                    Act. Costs
801000  Labour Charges  794,541.34
Debit                                 794,541.34
43001   SETUP                         1.02-
43002   MACHINE               1,535,432.85-
43003   LABOUR                1,023,218.50-
43004   ELECTRICITY             235,888.97-
Credit                              2,794,541.34-
Over/Underabsorption          2,000,000.00-
Activity Types                        Act. Acty
43001  Setup                              93.7  HR
43002  Machine                      10,236,219  S
43003  Labour                       20,464,370  S
43004  power                            62,076  KWH
In KP26
Activity Type     Plan             Capicity            UOM       Price (Fixed)
43001              200.0            20.0            HR          4.00
43002                400            30                  S         10.00
43003                500            40               S          8.00
43004                600            50                  KWH     8.00
Activity Type master is created as follows
ATyp categor     1
Price indicato     2
Act. price indicator     6
So when we do KSS2 System split Underabsorption value equally amount the cost element
Cost Center    Act Type    Control cost
1101100            43001     198,635.34
1101100        43002     198,635.34
1101100           43003     198,635.34
1101100           43004     198,635.32
                                  794,541.34
But when we do KSII
OTy Object                   AUn    Activity Quantity      Total price    Price (Fixed)
ATY 1101100/43001            HR               93.747         9,931.77         9,931.77
ATY 1101100/43002            S            10,236,219         6,621.18         6,621.18
ATY 1101100/43003            S            20,464,370         4,965.88         4,965.88
ATY 1101100/43004            KWH          62,076.029         3,972.71         3,972.71
                                                            25,491.54        25,491.54
How system is calculating total price value here kindly suggest
Regards
Bittu

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