SAP CONTROLLING
(Project oriented)
Basic settings for controlling
Ø 
Defining
Controlling Area
Ø 
Defining
Number ranges for Controlling Documents
Ø 
Maintain
Planning Versions
 Cost and
Revenue Element accounting
v 
Creation
of primary cost elements from financial accounting area
v 
Creation
of primary cost elements from controlling area
v 
Display
of cost element master records
v 
Change
cost element master records
v 
Primary
cost element categories
v 
Secondary
cost element categories
v 
Creation
of primary cost element groups
v 
Default
account assignments
v 
Creation
of Activity Types
v 
Grouping
of Activities
v 
Creation
of SKF
v 
Grouping
of SKF
Cost Center Accounting
ü 
Defining
Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
ü 
Creation
of Cost Centers and cost center groups
ü 
Display
cost center master records
ü 
Change
cost center master records
ü 
Creation
of cost center groups
ü 
Posting
to cost centers
ü 
Reposting
of co line items
ü 
Repost
of Costs
ü 
Planning
for cost centers – Manual
ü  Activity dependent planning
ü  Activity independent planning
ü  Activity Output Planning
ü 
Creation of Own Planner profile
ü 
Planning for cost centers – Excel
upload
ü 
Overhead
Calculation
ü 
Creation
of secondary cost element master records
ü 
Cost
center reports
ü 
Period
end closing activities in cost center accounting:
§ 
Assessment
§ 
Distribution
§ 
Periodic
Reposting
§ 
Indirect
activity allocation
Integration of financial accounting
with materials management:
ü 
Definition
of organizational units in materials management i.e. plant, storage location
and purchase
ü 
Organization
ü 
Assignment
of organizational units to each other
ü 
Definition
of tolerance groups for purchase orders
ü 
Definition
of tolerance groups for goods receipt
ü 
Definition
of tolerance groups for invoice verification balance sheet items.
ü 
Definition
of vendor specific tolerances
ü 
Creation,
display and change of material master records
ü 
Creation
of plant parameters
ü 
Maintenance
of posting periods for materials management
ü 
Maintenance
of parameters for invoice verification
ü 
Maintenance
of plant parameters for inventory management and physical inventory
ü 
Definition
of attributes for material types
ü 
Assignment
of GL accounts for material transactions in financial accounting
ü 
(Integration
of MM with FI)
ü 
Creation
of purchase order, posting of goods receipt, invoice verification and
ü 
Goods
issue for production – With Different 
Scenarios
Integration of Controlling with
Production Planning:
v  BOM
v  Routing
v  Work Center
v 
MRP run.
Product Cost Controlling
v  Introduction to product cost
controlling 
v  Data Flow in Product costing
v  Areas in Product cost controlling
v  Cost objects
v  Define Cost Sheet
v  Product Cost Planning
v  Cost estimate with quantity structure
v  Work in process Calculation
v  Standard Product Cost Calculation
v  Actual Product Cost Calculation
v  Settlement of Variances to Accounts
Product Cost Planning:
Ø 
Creation
of bill materials
Ø 
Define
overhead keys
Ø 
Creation
of activity type master records
Ø 
Planning
for activity hours
Ø 
Activity
type price calculation
Ø 
Creation
of work center master records
Ø 
Creation
of routings
Ø 
Defining
cost sheet( overhead structures)
Ø 
Assignment
of cost sheet to costing variant
Ø 
Creation
of cost estimate with quantity structure
Ø 
Marking
Ø 
Releasing
Ø 
Creation
of cost estimate without quantity structure
Ø 
Collective
Cost estimation
Product Cost by Order
·        
Define
costing variant
·        
Check
Costing Variant to Manufacturing Orders (PP)
·        
Define
Goods Received Valuation for Order Delivery
Work In Process Calculation:
§  Define Results Analysis Keys
§  Define Cost Elements for WIP
Calculation 
§  Define Results Analysis Versions
§  Define Valuation Methods (Actual
Costs)
§  Define Line IDs
§  Define Assignments
§  Define Update
§  Define Posting Rules for Setting Work
in Process
Variance Calculation:
§  Define Variance Keys
§  Define Default Variance Keys for
Plants
§  Define Target Cost Version
§  Assign Variance Key in Material Master
Settlement:
§  Create Settlement Profile
§  Create PA Transfer Structure
§  Maintain Number Ranges for Settlement
Documents
Special Scenarios in Product Costing
v 
Special
Procurement Key
v  Primary cost component split and
auxiliary cost component split
v 
Joint
& By Product
o  
NRV
Method
o  
Apportionment
Method
v 
Mixed
Cost Estimation
v 
Split
Valuation
v 
Sub-Contracting
v 
External
Operations
v 
Scrap
Valuation individual and combined scenarios
§ 
Assembly
Scrap
§ 
Component
Scrap
§ 
Operational
Scrap
v 
Origin
Group
v 
Overhead
Key & Overhead Group
Product Cost by Period:
§  Check Costing Variant for Product Cost
Collectors
§  Check Order Types
§  Define Costing Accounting relevant
default for order types and plants
§  Activate and Generate cost log in
Repetitive Manufacturing
§  Define Goods Received valuation for
order Delivery
Product Cost by Period 3 Scenarios
§  Product Cost by Period with work in
process
§  Product Cost by Period without work in
process
§  Product Cost by Period with production
Order
§   
Product Cost by Sales Order
Ø  Check Account Assignment Categories
Ø  Check Requirement Classes
Ø  Check Requirement Types
Ø  Check Control of Requirements type
determination
Ø  Check Costing Type
Ø  Check Costing Variant for Product
Costing
Ø  Define Results Analysis Keys
Ø  Define Cost Elements for Results
Analysis Keys
Ø  Define Results Analysis Versions
Ø  Define Valuation Methods for Results
Analysis Versions
Ø  Define Line IDs
Ø  Define Assignment for Results Analysis
Ø  Define Update for Results Analysis
Ø  Define Posting Rules for Settling to
Financial Accounting
Ø  Create Settlement Profile
Ø  Create PA Transfer Structure
Ø  Product Cost by Sales Order -  Scenarios
Ø  Product Cost by Sales Order with
Valuated Stock where Sales order is Cost Object
Ø  Product Cost by Sales Order with
Valuated Stock where Sales order is not a Cost Object
Ø  Product Cost by Sales Order with Non
Valuated Stock where Sales order is a Cost Object
SAP Actual Costing and Material Ledger
v  Activate Valuation Areas for Material Ledger
v  Assign Currency types to Material
Ledger Type 
v  Assign Material Ledger Types to
Valuation Area
v  Maintain Number Ranges for Material
Ledger Documents
v  Activate Actual Costing
v  Assignment of Accounts for Automatic
Postings
Integration of financial accounting with
sales and distribution:
Ø 
Definition
of sale s organization
Ø 
Definition
of distribution channels
Ø 
Definition
of divisions
Ø 
Assignment
among various organizational units in SD
Ø 
Definition
of partner functions
Ø 
Definitions
of shipping point and loading points
Ø 
Definition
of pricing procedures
Ø 
Determining
the shipping points
Ø 
Determining
the pricing procedures
Ø 
Maintenance
of SD condition types
Ø 
Maintenance
of condition records
Ø 
Assignment
of GL accounts for sales transactions( integration of FI with SD)
Ø 
Creation
of sales order
Ø 
Initialization
of stock
Ø 
Posting
the delivery of goods
Ø 
Creating
the sales order
Ø 
Goods
delivered to Customer
Ø 
Billing
Profitability analysis
ü 
Introduction
to profitability analysis 
ü 
Data
Flow in profitability Analysis
ü 
Maintaining
the operating concern
ü 
Direct
posting from FI/MM
ü 
Assignment
of controlling area to operating concern
ü 
Activating
the profitability analysis
ü 
Define
number ranges for actual postings
ü 
Mapping
of SD conditions types to COPA value fields
Ø  Maintain Characteristics
Ø  Maintain Value Fields 
Ø  Define Profitability Segment
Characteristics
Ø  Maintain Characteristics Values
Ø  Define characteristics Derivation
Ø  Define and Assign Valuation Strategy 
Ø  Define Keys for accessing material
cost estimates
Ø  Assign Costing Keys to any
characteristics 
Ø  Assign Value  Fields 
Ø  Define Number Ranges for Planning Data
Ø  Maintain Versions
Ø  Assign Quantity Fields
Ø  COPA Summarization
Ø  COPA Realignment 
Ø  COPA Derivation Rules
Ø  COPA Cost Sheet
Ø  COPA Valuation Strategy
Ø 
Creation
of reports
Ø  Viewing the reports
Ø  Account based COPA
Ø  Costing based COPA
Internal Orders
Ø 
Use
of Internal order types
Ø 
Settlement
profile
Ø 
Planning
profile
Ø 
Budget
profile
Ø 
Tolerance
for budgeting and availability control
Ø 
Order
types
Ø 
Real
orders and Statistical Orders 
Ø 
Creation
of secondary cost elements for Internal and External Settlements
Ø 
Planning
for internal orders
Ø 
Entering
budget information
Ø 
Actual
data posting
Ø 
Displaying
internal order information
Ø 
Displaying
budget control availability 
Ø 
Information
Reports
Ø 
Settlement
of Real internal orders to cost centers  
 Profit
Center Accounting
v 
Basic
Settings for Profit Center Accounting
v 
Creation
of Dummy Profit Centers
v 
Maintenance
of control parameters for actual postings
v 
Maintaining
planning versions for profit centers
v 
Maintaining
the number ranges for profit center documents
v 
Creation
of profit center master records
v 
Display
of profit center master records
v 
Changing
the profit center master records
v 
Creation
of revenue cost elements
v 
Automatic
Assignment of Revenue elements for Profit Centers
v 
Assignment
of profit centers in cost center master records
v 
Creation
of account groups in profit center accounting for planning
v 
Planning
for profit and loss account items
v 
Planning
for balance sheet items
v 
Posting
of transactions into profit centers
v 
Generating
the variance reports for profit and loss account items
v 
Generating
the variance reports for balance sheet items.
v 
Derivation
rules creation for revenue elements
v 
Derivation
rules creation for Balance Sheet accounts
Period End Closings 
Day end closings
Month end closings
Year end closings
Inventory Valuation
for YEC.
 
 

