Posting expense amounts to cost center versus Project (WBS)

Question

Hi,
I am an ABAPer. I have a basic FI doubt. We are using Project system in our company. Now for expenses, the employee enters the data in third party systems. Th third party systems then provide us with the data file which will be posted in SAP.
The business says that if a given expense by an employee, has Project status released, then the amount for that expense should be posted to cost center otherwise the amount for that expense should be posted to the project(WBS).
Now what does business people mean by posting expense amount to cost center or posting expense amount to Project (WBS). Where in FI can I see the option of posting amount to cost center versus posting amount to project ? Is there any transaction we can do that ?
Regards,
Rajesh.

Answer 1

Dear Rajesh,
If there is a corresponding wage type for expenses, you would assign GL Accounts to the corresponding symbolic accounts of HR Payroll. You would run the payroll.
Which means that wage types are assigned to symbolic accounts and symbolic accounts point to GL Accounts.
In HR, expenses are dealt mainly in Travel Management for travel expenses etc.
in SAP Easy Access Menu, Accounting -> Financial Accounting -> Travel Management -> Travel Expenses
F-41 and F-43 are one and same except the fact the F-41 has defaulted with document type KG (Vendor credit memo) and F-43 with KR (Vendor Invoice) which you can change. You should use Document Type KR for Vendor Invoices.
The payments will be released once you run payment program to run due A/P open items.
Regards,
Naveen.