With the standard Controlling report
S_ALR_87013611 (Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance) is displayed Actual vs Plan costs for a specific periods and plan versions.
In the selection screen is filled the Controlling Area, Fiscal Year, Periods, Plan Version to use, Cost centers group/Cost centers (optional) and Cost Elements group/Cost elements (optional)
Report Output:
Initially in the left box you can see the Cost Centers or Groups listed with the parameters you entered previously. You can choose whichever at level you want.
In the right box the information of plan costs, actual costs and variance are shown at cost element level. It is shown a block with the
debit values, then a block with the
credit values and the corresponding
summarization levels.
The
Over/Underabsorption sum level is the difference between the debit and the credit. If credit is greater than debit there is overabsortion, if debit is greater that credit there is underabsortion.
After that, a block with
Statistical posting is shown if they are found with the selection criteria chosen previously.
The same occurs with the following block,
Parked Posting, if there are Vendor parked invoices with the criteria entered, the value is displayed. You could navigate to invoice details doing double click in the value.
The following information group,
Parked Posting, displays the activity sent to customers cost centers and WBS by the Cost Centers of the report.
And finally,
Statistical Key Figures block is the total SKF in the cost centers of the report.
In each moment you can select a line (item or total line) with doubleclick to perform further review. Usually the option “Cost Centers: Actual Line Items” is the best one because gives more detail.
Finally, the report results can be exported to
excel, there are two ways, depending the report level you want to print:
- Click List->Export->Spreadsheet
- Select “Excel”
- Type the path an name of the output file.
The second option is:
- - Click System->List->Save->Local File
- - Select “Spreadsheet”.
- - Type the path an name of the output file.
