Assessments

[former_member361341]

Hi experts!!!

I need some help with the assessments. The client is asking me a way to the the following, here is an example:

I have four cost centers: Store, Accounting, Logistics and TI. Regularly they made assessments from Accounting, Logistics and TI to the Store, in other words, they send all the expenses of those three cost centers to the cost center of the Store. But now they want to make another process firstly, they want to make an assessment from the TI cost center to the Accounting and Logistics ones. These is to know how much those cost centers expend on TI processes. Then they want to run the first process that I explained to you. The problem is that if the process is executed, the two cost centers (Accounting and Logistics) already have the expenses provided by TI, so those expenses are going to be duplicated because the TI cost center is going to send his expenses to the Store. Is there a way to make an assessment from a secondary cost element in order to virtually anulate the movements done in the first assessment?

What solution can I give to the costumer with this request??

Please help me experts!!

Rodrigo Gonzalez

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rodrigo,

the meaning of your request "Is there a way to make an assessment from a secondary cost element in order to virtually anulate the movements done in the first assessment?" is quite unclear.

1.As Mukthar mentioned earlier you can split the process using different assessment accounts, which is quite ussefull for cost distinction purpose. When you will the actual line items on your final CC Store you will be able to distinguishe costs comming from TI rather than the other comming from Accounting, Logistics.

2.Instead if you mean that the balance of the secondary cost element has to be zero on Accounting, Logistics COst Centers, to have this result you will have to use the same secondary cost element in the two allocation steps. In this way however you will lose  allocated cost information CC wise.

Regards,

Alex

[former_member198650]

Hi Rodrigo,

Create a separate assessment cost element and use this element for the first assessment. This cost element will store the values when you run the first assessment. For the another assessment use the different cost element, this way you can identify easily how much charged with first or second assessment.

Regards,

Mukthar