Reporting - Cost Centers Actual/Plan/Commitment

To have clear the useful of this report, we must to have clear the meaning of Commitment.

Commitments are costs that will be incurred in the future for material or services that we have requested.

For this reason, Commitments reserve funds for the future costs.

Now, we have a look to the report S_ALR_87013620.

In Selection Screen we enter the Controlling Area, Fiscal Year, Periods, Plan version, Cost Center/Group (Optional) and Cost Element/Group (Optional).

The Output report contains:

Initially in the left box you can see the Cost Center or Groups listed with the parameters you entered previously. You can choose whichever at level you want.

In the right box, by Cost element are listed:

- Actual Costs: Cost incurred

- Commitment Costs: Cost that will be incurred in the future.

- Allotted: Total Actual + Commitments

- Plan: Planned Costs

- Available: Planned Costs – Allocated.