RRB showing goods receipt to valuated project stock as an expense to be billed?

[anders_loven]

Hi.

I noticed the below quote in the SAP help

"
From the accounting point of view, working with valuated project stock offers the following advantages over working with non-valuated project stock:

….

You can use project resource-related billing and show the goods receipt as an expense to be billed.

"

I can however not find any further information on this topic or how to set that up (which source). If someone have tried this out or just know more - it would be great if you could please elaborate a bit.

Thanks / Anders

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Anders,

From the accounting and business perspective I am not sure that would be correct, because the Project Stock is not recognised as a cost for the project, means it is not consumed yet.

Maybe the project will be over and some stock is unused, so it can be returned or sold, while you would have billed your customer already.

I would guess that from the DIP profile perspective you will need to map respective stock accounts to sales materials, same as you would do for the rest of cost elements on WBS.

Regards,

Paulo

[anders_loven]

Hi Paulo and thanks for the feedback.

Yes - an important aspect. In the use case I am thinking about the project stock materials will be project specific based on choices made in variant configuration but it need to be verified if OK from an accounting point of view.

I assume it something like that which was considered when the passage I quoted was put into the SAP help.

Another approach - if a requirement to invoice early based on costs posted would be to use non-valuated project stock.

Regards / Anders