Cost center planning - price calculation

[Former Member]

Hi gurus,

(I am new to Controlling, and so please bear with me if I ask you basic questions)

My ultimate goal is to create a plan/actual variance report for the 'Painting' activity.

This is what I have done so far.

1. As a first step, I created an activity type - Painting - with the unit of measurement 'hour'.

2. I created a cost element (category 42), so I can allocate the costs incurred for this activity to other cost centers.

3. In tcode KP26, I entered the plan values for each of the periods and chose the value of the price as 0001 (default value). However, I would like to enter a price of $10/hour for this activity.

However, I dont understand how to assign a price to this activity. How do I make this configuration setting?

Also, how do I post 'actual' values for this activity type? I am asking this because the 'unit of measurement' is hour, and usually all the FI transactions are in $.

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Regards,

Vijay.

[Former Member]

Hi,

You have 2 ways of getting the planned prices for Activities in SAP.

1. Manual update in KP26:: You can manually update the prices such as Fixed/Variable (break up only for information) per unit of measure.

2.Calculating through system: With the help of the Cost Center Planning such as Activity Dependent and Activity Independent planning and Splitting (not necessarily with splitting rule but can also do calculate based on the weighting factor (Equivalence number in KP26).

Similar way you can do for actuals:

-You can manually update the actual price in KBK6

-You can calculate through system: With the help of the actual postings to the Cost Center and splitting.

Initially you can do post with plnned price and later you can re-valuate the activities with the actual price so that the delta is posted.

Umapathi G