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Cost Elements

Former Member
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Hi Gurus,

Please tell me, Which GL Accounts from expense accounts and from revenue accounts should be made cost elements??

Thank You

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Former Member
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Hello

A primary cost or revenue element is a cost or revenue-relevant item in the chart of accounts, for which a corresponding general ledger (G/L) account exists in Financial Accounting (FI). You can only create the cost or revenue element if you have first defined it as a G/L account in the chart of accounts and created it as an account in Financial Accounting. The SAP System checks whether a corresponding account exists in Financial Accounting

Examples of primary cost elements include:

Material costs

Personnel costs

Energy costs

Secondary cost elements can only be created and administrated in cost accounting (CO). They portray internal value flows, such as those found in internal activity allocation, overhead calculations and settlement transactions.

When you create a secondary cost element, the SAP System checks whether a corresponding account already exists in Financial Accounting. If one exists, you can not create the secondary cost element in cost accounting

Examples of secondary cost elements include:

· Assessment cost elements

· Cost elements for Internal Activity Allocation

· Cost elements for Order Settlement

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Former Member
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Normally all the Income and Expenses accounts are created as Cost elements .

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Former Member
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Hi Emani,

Actually i asked this question, because i read that CostOfGoodsSold Accounts and some more accounts should not be made as cost elements.

Please verify or all the GL Accounts related to P&L should be made as cost elements?

Thank You

Former Member
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It depends on what modules you are implementing.

As a general rule all expense accounts should be defined as cost elements - you might want to exclude some accounts e.g. interest, dividends that are not related to your normal business operations. If you are implementing cost based COPA, the COS accounts defined for transaction GBB-VAY (in MM account determination OBYC) should not be defined as cost elements. All the other expense accounts should be defined as cost element type1.

The revenue accounts need not be defined as cost elements unless you are using internal orders / projects / COPA which are used to capture revenues. If you are using any cost object (other than a cost center - remember, revenue (cost eleemnt type 11) postings to CC is statistical) to capture revenues, you should define the revenue accounts as cost elements type 11.

Regards,

Praveen.

Former Member
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Hi Praveen,

I made all the expense accounts as cost elements(Consumption Ac, COGP Ac, COGS Ac, Price Difference Ac) but while doing transactions cost center field is disabled.

So is it right to give default cost center to a cost element?

Please revert asap.

Thank You

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