Reposting fixed costs to variable costs

Hi Gurus,
one of our subsidiary company uses target=actual method in the cost center accounting. Sometimes they forget to plan some cost elements during the planning process. If some costs incurred on these unplanned cost elements, SAP put all of these costs to the fixed costs during the period-end closing (activity allocation).
So far so good, but is there any possibility to repost these costs to variable costs on cost center level???
Thx

Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
We know the splitting method but this company don't use it. For this reason I asked about a possibility if it is possible to repost the amounts from fixed to variable costs afterwards.
I would be grateful for an other solution.

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