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SAP Cost Element Tables : TKA4 , TIV5B and TKA4E

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SAP Cost Element Tables : TKA4 , TIV5B and TKA4E

SAP Cost Element tables are part of SAP ERP system. These tables are designed to store and manage the Cost Element is the database system. Cost elements within an organization are representative of diverse costs and expenses incurred by the company during a fiscal year like materials, labor, and material costs.

SAP Cost Element tables are very useful in the generation of reports of cost elements data. This permits a company the analysis of financial performance and identification of cost reduction or performance improvement areas. Historical cost element data creates archives of data within the system that assists the tables in the creation of budgets as well as aids in forecasts.

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S/4 HANA Finance - Dealing with SAP Cost Elements

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With  S/4HANA Finance , the universal journal includes a single field account that covers both the general ledger (G/L) account and the cost element. As companies migrate to S/4HANA Finance, the system merges their existing G/L accounts and cost elements.

The transactions for the creation and maintenance of cost elements become obsolete, replaced by a single transaction for account maintenance. However, this technical change does not mean that the idea of a cost element has disappeared with S/4HANA Finance. Learn what changes come with S/4HANA Finance and what remains as before.

Key Concept

The cost element design within the controlling area is a vital part of setting up your controlling (CO) system. In S/4HANA Finance, as the accounts and cost elements are merged, the following changes result:

  • The  primary cost elements  represent the  profit-and-loss accounts  used to classify your journal entries. In all accounting approaches, you use cost elements to represent wages and salaries, material expenses, depreciation, and many others. If you use account-based  profitability analysis  (CO-PA) or if you have make-to-order processes requiring results analysis and settlement, you also use cost elements for revenues or sales deductions. In S/4HANA Finance, the G/L account and the primary cost elements merge into one.  
  • The  secondary cost elements  record the  value flows  within CO, such as the charging of utility costs from a support cost center to an operational cost center or the charging of machine-hours to a production order. Additional examples include the charging of consulting time to a  Work Breakdown Structure  (WBS) element or the settlement of research and development costs to CO-PA. In S/4HANA Finance, accounts are created for every secondary cost element so that all value flows are visible in the universal journal and thus in reports such as the trial balance.

A Controlling (CO) implementation typically starts with the decision regarding which profit-and-loss (P&L) accounts require primary cost elements and which don’t. There are typically a handful of P&L accounts that do not need to be reflected in CO—either because they have no impact on the operational business or are needed for a particular purpose, such as recording work in process (WIP).

However, for the majority of P&L accounts, the implementation team creates a separate primary cost element for each account. It makes sure that the correct CO account assignment can be updated as each journal entry is posted. This approach allows capturing salary postings by cost center or material expense postings by Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element.

All these changes with S/4HANA Finance, where the accounts and cost elements merge, and the master data settings for the cost elements become part of the general ledger (G/L) account master.

This means that where you used to create primary cost elements using transaction code KA01, you now are directed to transaction code FS00 (Display G/L Account Centrally). While this all sounds quite radical, the fundamental nature of the account does not change, and you continue to use the field status groups to control which account assignments are valid for each business transaction as before.

The merge of accounts and cost elements does have an impact on your authorization profiles. You can create accounts with no CO impact if you have authorization for G/L account maintenance (these are typically given by account, company code, and account type). However, if you want to create an account that is simultaneously a cost element, you need authorization for both the G/L account and the cost element (authorization object K_CSKB).

The combination also means that you need to keep the period locks in sync and make sure that the account types that allow postings match the CO business transactions that allow postings at any given time.

Setting Up Your Accounts in S/4 HANA Finance

Figure 1  shows the account master data in S/4HANA Finance (transaction code FS00), which is a combination of the account maintenance and the previous cost element maintenance transactions (transaction code KA01-3).

G/L account showing the account type for the primary cost element

Figure 1: G/L account showing the account type for the primary cost element

The main change to this screen is that you can choose between P&L accounts that do not require a cost assignment by selecting the account type Nonoperating Expense or Income and P&L accounts that are associated with a CO account assignment by selecting the Account Type Primary Costs or Revenue.

In my example, you have a raw material expense account, and any raw material posting to this account needs to be assigned to a CO account, such as a cost center, order, or WBS element. If you are migrating, your field status groups will already be set up to include these CO account assignments.

As you go through the screens, notice that the old Default Assignment tab in the cost element master record is gone, so the only way to set up the default account assignments is to use transaction code OKB9 or follow IMG menu path Controlling > Cost Center Accounting > Actual Postings > Manual Actual Postings > Edit Account Assignment. If you have entered default account assignments in your cost element master data, the migration process creates entries in table TKA3A for these default assignments. You can check them using transaction code OKB9.

The account type alone does not define how the account is used in CO. This is done by assigning a cost element category to each account. To check the cost element category, select the Control Data tab as shown in  Figure 2 .

Control data for G/L account showing the cost element category for primary costs

In this tab, you see that your raw material account has the cost element category 1 (Primary costs/cost reducing revenues). (This value appears in the CElem category field.) You want similar accounts or cost elements for wages and salaries, asset depreciation, material movements, and many others.

You can also use cost elements of category 3 and 4 if you work with accrual postings. If you are using account-based profitability analysis (CO-PA), you also want cost elements of category 11 for revenue and category 12 for sales deductions.

You also use these cost element categories if you have make-to-order processes requiring results analysis, where revenue or direct costs are assigned to a project or sales order. If you have settlement processes that capitalize expenses as either asset under construction or finished goods inventory, you also want cost elements of category 22 for external settlement.

Note that the old restriction that WIP accounts must not be cost elements continue to apply (in other words, the account type for the WIP offsetting entry must be Nonoperating Expense or Income).

With the settings for the primary cost elements made to the relevant accounts, it’s time to think about the secondary cost elements. Before I go into detail here, it’s worth recalling how a primary cost element differs from a secondary cost element. A primary cost element is an extension of a P&L account, and the offsetting entry is always to a balance sheet account (so a salary expense will offset to accounts payable, a revenue posting will offset to accounts receivable, and so on).

A posting to a secondary cost element balances to zero, but under the same account. Hence, a direct activity allocation credits the cost center and debits the order under the same cost element.

The switch is in the sender (here cost center) and the receiver (the order), and this, in turn, may trigger a shift in profit centers or functional areas, all of which are captured as partner relationships in the universal journal.

In the past, secondary cost elements were created using transaction code KA06, but in S/4HANA Finance, you again are redirected to transaction code FS00 (Display G/L Account Centrally). During migration, secondary cost elements are migrated into the G/L account tables (SKA1, SKB1, and SKAT) for all company codes assigned to the CO area.  Figure 3  shows the G/L account master data for a secondary cost element for the allocation of machine costs.

G/L account showing an account type for a secondary cost element

Again, you can see the cost element categories by selecting the Control Data tab.  Figure 4  shows that this cost element can be used for internal activity allocations (in other words, to charge machine costs from a cost center to orders or projects).

Control data for G/L account showing cost element category for secondary costs

As you think about your secondary cost element categories, think about these sender-receiver relationships. These relationships give you a cost element category of 43 for internal activity allocation (as shown in  Figure 4 ), 21 for internal settlement, 41 for overhead rates, and 42 for assessment. You’ll see an example of such a sender-receiver relationship and the associated value flow when I explain how a secondary cost element appears in the trial balance at the end of this article.

If you’ve been working with the classic General Ledger, these movements are recorded in the reconciliation ledger if they cross-company code boundaries and are moved to the classic General Ledger at the period close using transaction code KALC. If you’ve been working with the SAP General Ledger, you probably have set up real-time integration to create journal entries for these movements. Both these approaches are obsolete in S/4HANA Finance.

You always see such movements reflected in the universal journal so that you won’t need a reconciliation ledger. Because the secondary cost elements are now G/L accounts, you won’t need to map the CO business transactions to reconciliation accounts in FI.

The secondary cost elements appear in your financial accounts whenever you perform the transactions listed above, provided that you include the new accounts in your financial statement versions. You can find the link by clicking the Edit financial statement version button shown in the ribbon in  Figure 4 .

If you are building up your financial statement version from scratch, you can still use transaction code KA23 (Cost Elements: Master Data List) to list all the cost elements and their attributes in your system. This makes grouping them for reporting purposes much easier than trying to use the F4 help.

Other secondary cost elements exist that don’t represent such sender-receiver relationships. If you work with Result Analysis, you still need cost elements of type 31 (order/project results analysis). If you are working with Project System, you still potentially need cost elements of types 50, 51, 52 (project-related incoming orders), and 61 (earned value).

Working with Accounts and Cost Elements in S/4 HANA Finance

Figure 5  shows a sample trial balance in S/4HANA Finance. You see the classic view showing the balances by company code and account on the right, but also the option to drill-down by Account Type, Accounting Document, and Activity Type on the left.

This view enables you to drill down by account type (material, asset, vendor, customer) in Financial Accounting but also by activity type (for example, the machine hours that are allocated using the account or cost element shown in  Figures 3  and  4 ) in CO. This same merge is available in all-new financial reports in S/4HANA Finance.

Sample trial balance in S/4 HANA Finance

However, while the accounts and cost elements are merged in the new reports, you continue to see the term cost element on many of the screens. You find the term cost element in the assessment cycles, the settlement profiles, the costing sheets, and other areas. These configuration transactions work exactly as before.

You can use the example shown in  Figures 3  and  4  to perform time recording or order confirmations via the work center. You can enter only accounts of cost element category 41 in your costing sheets and accounts of cost element category 42 in your assessment cycles, and so on.

What’s important is that your secondary cost elements provide the transparency you need for your analysis. Mainly if you’ve only worked with costing-based CO-PA in the past, there is a tendency to allocate and settle under a single cost element and rely on the value fields to give you the detail you need for reporting. You may want to create separate secondary cost elements to distinguish between marketing expenses and sales and administration expenses in your assessment cycles.

In  Figure 6 , for example, select the account for raw material costs that you looked at in  Figures 1  and  2  within the trial balance ( Figure 5 ) and drill down by cost center to show all the cost centers to which raw materials were posted within the selected time frame.

Trial balance showing raw material account and assigned cost centers

By comparison, in  Figure 7 , a more classic approach is taken in which the cost center line-item report transaction code KSB1) is used to select all postings to the raw material cost element with these cost centers in the same time frame.

CO line-item report showing raw material cost element and associated cost centers

What’s happening here is that the system is using compatibility views to simulate the existence of CO line items even though the CO data has been subsumed in the universal journal. This means that you won’t need to rework your existing reports after migration to S/4HANA Finance.

Indeed, if you use the relationship browser in the CO line-item display, you find it appears to show an accounting document and a controlling document. However, both documents are views on the universal journal that display the data as if the old structures still existed. You could continue to explore the trial balance, focusing on single accounts, such as raw materials and selecting other account assignments (such as orders and projects) or looking at different accounts, such as revenue accounts and drilling down to the CO-PA characteristics.

Instead, look at the account for the secondary cost element in  Figures 3  and  4 , then drill down to the sender and receiver objects that were updated during these postings.

Trial balance showing activity allocation and associated postings.

In  Figure 8 , note that you’ve drilled down to the sender cost center (1303) and the sender activity type (1420), which gives you a credit balance. The offsetting line is a debit balance. To see the account assignment, you have to pull the order number by choosing the appropriate option in the navigation panel. This is a straightforward example, but it gives you an impression of the fundamental changes available with S/4HANA Finance.

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SAP Cost Elements

SAP Cost Elements

  • Primary cost element
  • Secondary cost element

We will discuss each of these types in more details below.

During creation of SAP cost elements, they should be assigned to a category which is known as cost element category. So, the primary cost elements category technically determines which transactions can be used for a particular cost element.

For example, primary SAP cost elements or revenue cost elements use the following categories:

  • 1 Primary costs/cost-reducing revenues
  • 3 Accrual/deferral per surcharge
  • 4 Accrual/deferral per debit = actual
  • 11 Revenues

Whereas secondary SAP cost elements use the following categories:

  • 21 Internal settlement
  • 31 Order/project results analysis

Above are just few examples of the cost element categories. Different categories can be used as per the business requirement of companies.

Cost elements are defined in the controlling module of SAP and are assigned to various objects such as cost centers , internal orders, etc. Basically, their function is to classify and analyze the cost for internal reporting purposes. The integration between the expense accounts in financial accounting and cost elements in management accounting is essential for reconciliation purposes. Therefore, posting to a primary cost element is done through a posting to a G/L account. All the primary cost elements have a corresponding P&L G/L account in FI .

Primary Cost or Revenue Elements

The primary elements should be assigned to a corresponding object in CO such a cost centers, an internal order, etc. This is necessary for the identification of the origination of the cost. The revenue element is also a primary cost element but unlike primary cost elements it has a corresponding revenue G/L account in the chart of accounts under the P&L. The prerequisite for creation of these elements is to have a corresponding G/L account(s). Without them the SAP system will not allow to create primary cost or revenue elements.

Let’s look at some examples. Material costs, personnel costs, salary costs are different type of costs which are posted to P&L of G/L accounts which in turn are allocated to primary cost elements.

Secondary Cost Elements

These elements are only used in CO for the identification of internal costs for settlements or assessments. Unlike primary cost elements which have corresponding G/L accounts, secondary SAP cost elements do not have G/L accounts associated with them. They are used in overhead calculation, internal cost allocation, settlements, etc. If the SAP system finds that there is a corresponding GL Account during creation of a secondary cost element, it prohibits its creation.

Let’s look at some examples. Production cost, material overheads are allocated internally or settled internally through primary cost centers and internal orders for internal requirements of the business.

How to Create SAP Cost Elements

Primary cost elements.

There are two ways to create primary cost elements: manual and automatic.

Launch the transaction KA01 or navigate to the following path in SAP Easy Access Menu:

Accounting – Controlling – Cost Element Accounting – Master Data – Cost Element – Individual processing – KA01

Create SAP Cost Element – Initial Screen

On the initial screen enter the controlling area in which you want to create a cost element. Next, enter number of the cost element that has to be created with validity dates and click on Master Data button.

Cost Element Number has to be Entered Manually

The system will take you to the next screen. Here, you should give the name and description of the cost element and choose cost element category number on the Basic Data tab. Next, you should click Save button.

SAP Cost Element – Basic Screen

After saving, the cost element will be created.

The system creates cost elements automatically as you create G/L accounts. The numbers of cost elements are the same as numbers of G/L accounts.

If you want to enable automatic creation of SAP cost elements, it is necessary to set up some settings in the chart of accounts customizing. Start the transaction OB13 or navigate to the following path in SPRO transaction:

Financial Accounting (new) – General Ledger Accounting (New) – Master Data – G/L Accounts – Preparations – Edit Chart of Accounts List

cost element assignment table

Now, we need to define cost element categories that the SAP system will use during automatic creation of cost elements. It is possible to define different cost element categories for various G/L accounts. To do it, start the transaction OKB2 or navigate to the following path in SPRO transaction:

Controlling – Cost Element Accounting – Master Data – Cost Elements – Automatic creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements – Make Default Settings

Enter the chart of accounts on the initial screen and press OK button. Next, you should enter account numbers in “Acct from” and “Account to” columns and corresponding cost element categories in “CElement cat.” column. When you enter numbers of G/L accounts in “Acct from” column, the SAP system will select one or several accounts according to the account number given in “Account to” column. Then, it is necessary to save these settings.

Automatic Generation of Cost Elements Settings

Now, let’s see how to create secondary cost elements. Start the transaction KA06 or navigate to the following path in SAP Easy Access Menu:

Controlling – Cost Element Accounting – Master Data – Cost Elements – Create Cost Elements – Create Secondary Cost Element

Overall, the procedure is similar to creation of primary cost elements. G/L Accounts are not needed for creation of secondary cost elements as these elements are used exclusively for internal cost analysis.

Create Secondary SAP Cost Element – Initial Screen

Posting to primary SAP cost elements is automatic and is done when you enter a document in financial accounting. For example, in transactions such as FB01 where users need to enter a cost center. Secondary cost elements cannot be directly posted like primary cost element. They are used for internal allocation between cost objects such as cost centers, internal orders, WBS elements, etc.

Did you like this tutorial? Have any questions or comments? We would love to hear your feedback in the comments section below. It’d be a big help for us, and hopefully it’s something we can address for you in improvement of our free SAP CO tutorials.

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10 thoughts on “SAP Cost Elements”

When I extracte table from SAP Can I add seconds cost element on my spreadsheet?

Can you please tell in which SAP transaction you are doing this?

Wonderful material but still need some more examples to understand the depth of secondary cost elements. thanks

Need more explanation for secondary Cost element , as it may use to reallocate supportive cost to production cost center (I believe ). Overall explanation is good

Can you please send us detailed information about secondary cost elements with various examples so that i can understand in-depth as i would like to understand in-depth knowledge of CO and will go for certification…

Thanks Irfan

Secondary cost elements will be the topic of one of the future tutorials.

that is useful blog i ask you to edit : Secondary Cost Elements Now, let’s see how to create secondary cost elements. Start the transaction KA06 or navigate to the following path in SPRO transaction: to : Secondary Cost Elements Now, let’s see how to create secondary cost elements. Start the transaction KA06 or navigate to the following path in SAP Easy Access Menu:

Thank you for noticing and reporting this typo! The tutorial was updated.

Hi Cleo. How long would I need access to the SAP IDES for the free MM training

i do not know why but in my sap IDES, there is no susch a route as: Accounting – Controlling – Cost Element Accounting – Master Data – Cost Element – Individual processing – and if i try get there through a tcode KA01,instead it opens FS00 EDIT GL ACCOUNT CENTRALLY what is the problem? is it because i do not have access?

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Planning Costs for WBS Elements

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • List methods for cost planning with a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Methods of Cost Planning for WBS Elements

Planning costs in projects.

Linda, the project controller now checks the created project by James, the project planner. She discusses with him how the costs should be calculated for the project.

Different Methods of Cost Planning and Calculation

You can plan costs for a project in the SAP Project System (SAP PS) based on WBS elements and/or network activities.

Various cost planning options for a project are shown: overall planning, detailed planning, unit costing, Easy Cost Planning (ECP), and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).

The following are various ways in which you can plan costs for WBS elements:

Overall planning

This is the most basic form of cost planning, where the costs for WBS elements are entered manually. You can choose to break down your figures by fiscal year.

Detailed planning

This type of planning (of primary costs and activity inputs) is based on cost elements and periods.

Unit costing

For each WBS element, you use a scheme for entering quantities, such as materials, internal activities, external activities, variable items, and so on. This type of planning is cost element-based.

Easy Cost Planning (ECP)

ECP is a user-friendly method for performing element-based cost planning by means of a quantity structure. You can then use execution services to enter commitment and actual data relating to planned costs.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)

This is a method used to plan costs in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (for example in Microsoft Excel) and transfer the data directly to the SAP S/4HANA planning tables in the back-end system.

In addition to manual planning in the WBS, you can assign different types of orders (internal orders or maintenance orders) to WBS elements that are flagged as account assignment elements. This assignment can then be used to display the planned costs of the orders for the project. You can also assign activities to WBS elements and plan costs using these activities.

Easy Cost Planning for WBS Elements

Planning costs with easy cost planning (ecp).

Easy Cost Planning (ECP) enables you to plan costs for WBS elements. You can access ECP for projects from the Project Builder. You choose a WBS element from the structure and then create costing items for this WBS element. Cost planning with ECP is cost element-based. The cost planning periods are determined from the basic start and the basic end date of the WBS element. To enter costing items, you can also use planning forms. When you do this, characteristics, such as work in hours, are valuated. The characteristic values from the planning form are linked to quantities, values, or actions in the costing items (for example, to the quantity of an internal activity). Once you have transferred the values, the costing items appear under the relevant WBS elements in the structure.

A screenshot is shown of Easy Cost Planning (ECP) for WBS elements.

ECP can be used to create a simple, preliminary costing for projects. The pre-planned costs are then replaced, for example, by a quantity structure of networks and activities. You can also use ECP to create planned data for the project execution phase. In this case, you can use execution services to enter commitment and actual costs for the planned costs.

How to Execute Easy Cost Planning (ECP)

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What is Cost Element Accounting in SAP | SAP CO-CEL

What is sap cost element accounting.

In SAP, cost element accounting (CO-OM-CEL) deals with the collection of costs and summarizes costs within controlling and posts to reconciliation ledger account. For every profit & loss type G/L account type, corresponding cost elements are to be created in SAP R/3 system.

What are cost elements?

Cost element is an item in the chart of accounts, which is used in controlling area to record the values assigned consumption of production factors like raw material, utilities, etc. cost elements are divided in to two types i.e.

  • Primary Cost / Revenue Elements

Secondary Cost Elements

Primary Cost Elements: –

Primary cost elements describes the costs that occurs outside of controlling. It links to SAP financial accounting (FI) expenses account (corresponding to G/L account required for costs). When you are creating new primary cost elements, the SAP check if a corresponding accounts are available in SAP Financial accounting .

Cost Element Categories: –  You need to assign a particular cost element category when you are implementing cost element accounting in SAP.

  • 01 – Primary costs / cost reducing revenues
  • 11 – Revenues
  • 12 – Sales deductions

It describes the costs flows that occurs only within controlling like allocations, overhead cost calculations, etc. No link to SAP FI expense accounts.

Secondary Cost element category: – Similarly you need to assign a cost element category when you are creating secondary cost elements. Some of the important secondary cost element category are

  • 01 – Internal Settlements
  • 31 – Order/ Project results analysis
  • 41 – Overhead
  • 42 – Assessment
  • 43 – Internal activity allocation

SAP Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL) Configuration

The primary configuration of cost element accounting in SAP involve maintenance of cost element master data and information system.

SAP Cost Element Accounting configuration

The important configuration steps of SAP CO-CEL are

  • Creation of primary cost elements
  • Creation of secondary cost elements
  • Creation of cost element group
  • SAP CO/FI reconciliation in company code currency
  • Cost element master data reports.

Also read: what is cost center accounting in SAP .

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Cost elements Table in SAP

  • VIEA02 Table for Allocation of costs elements to owner cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : FVVI Module : CRM
  • FINB_MD_0110 Table for Registration: Elements on Data Elements (Attr./Key) Table Type : TRANSP Package : FINB_CHAR_FRAMEWORK Module : FIN-FB-MDF
  • GRPGA Table for Assignment of WBS elements to MRP WBS elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : GRPG Module : PS-MAT
  • TWB_RMP Table for Work Breakdown Structure Elements (WBS Elements) Table Type : TRANSP Package : S_TWB Module : BC-TWB-ORG
  • TWB_RMPT Table for Work Breakdown Structure Elements (WBS Elements) Table Type : TRANSP Package : S_TWB Module : BC-TWB-ORG
  • CKMLKEPH Table for Material Ledger: Cost Component Split (Elements) Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKMLCCS Module : CO-PC-ACT
  • CKMLPRKEPH Table for Material Ledger: Cost Component Split (Elements) for Prices Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKMLCCS Module : CO-PC-ACT
  • CNV_20100_IMPL Table for Implicit merges of accounts / cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : CNV_20100 Module : CA-GTF-BS
  • CNV_COA_ACCOUNT Table for Assign 'old/new' accounts/primary cost elements per ChtAccts Table Type : TRANSP Package : CNV_20100 Module : CA-GTF-BS
  • CNV_COA_COSTELE Table for Assign 'old/new' secondary cost elements per Cht of Accts. Table Type : TRANSP Package : CNV_20100 Module : CA-GTF-BS
  • CNV_COA_LANG Table for Texts for accounts/cost elements for other languages Table Type : TRANSP Package : CNV_20100 Module : CA-GTF-BS
  • COKA Table for CO Object: Control Data for Cost Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : KACC Module : CRM
  • CSKA Table for Cost Elements (Data Dependent on Chart of Accounts) Table Type : TRANSP Package : KBASCORE Module : CO
  • CSKB Table for Cost Elements (Data Dependent on Controlling Area) Table Type : TRANSP Package : KBASCORE Module : CO
  • FCOM_KSTAR Table for Cost Elements for Users Table Type : TRANSP Package : FCOM_MONITOR Module : EP-PCT-MGR-CO
  • FERC_C10 Table for Special cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : FERC Module : FI
  • JBDFTPASSIGNMENT Table for SAP Banking: Assignment of value fields to cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : JBT Module : IS-B-PA-STC
  • MLBEKEPH Table for ML: Cost Comp. Split (Elements) for Purchase Order History Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKMLCCS Module : CO-PC-ACT
  • MLKEPH Table for ML Document: Cost Component Split (Elements) for Values Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKMLCCS Module : CO-PC-ACT
  • T77KL Table for Wage Elements in Personnel Cost Planning Table Type : TRANSP Package : PP07 Module : PA-CM-CP
  • T8J8A Table for Drilling Cost Elements - Payroll Burden Clearing Table Type : TRANSP Package : GJVA Module : CRM
  • TBOSECP2 Table for Cost Elements for Condition Types Table Type : TRANSP Package : AD_BOS_ECP Module : IS-EC-BOS
  • TBPFK Table for Availability Control: Cost Elements Exempted Table Type : TRANSP Package : KABP Module : CA-GTF-BS
  • TDO7T Table for Text table for administration cost elements Table Type : POOL Package : FVVD Module : FS-CML
  • TFIN201 Table for Mapping of Secondary Cost Elements to FS Items: Details Table Type : TRANSP Package : FCIN_UC Module : EC-CS
  • TIV51 Table for Cost elements according to accountancy firm/ heating systems Table Type : TRANSP Package : FVVI Module : CRM
  • TIV52 Table for Key conversion accountancy firm partner cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : FVVI Module : CRM
  • TIV5B Table for Cost elements text table TIV51 Table Type : POOL Package : FVVI Module : CRM
  • TKB5AL Table for Allocation: Assessement Cost Elements for Alloc. Structure Table Type : TRANSP Package : KAUC Module : CRM
  • TKZU1 Table for Overhead Base Cost Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : KAUC Module : CRM
  • TKZU9 Table for Credit objects for target/actual cost elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : KSA Module : CO-OM-CCA
  • TKZX3 Table for Credit objects for overhead cost elements per BUKRS/GSBER Table Type : TRANSP Package : KSA Module : CO-OM-CCA
  • TKZX9 Table for Credit objects for tgt=act. cost elements per BUKRS/GSBER Table Type : TRANSP Package : KSA Module : CO-OM-CCA
  • TPIK2 Table for Cost Elements: Value Categories Table Type : TRANSP Package : KAP0 Module : PS-IS-REP-ACC
  • TPIK3 Table for Assignment Table: Cost Elements -> Value Categories Table Type : TRANSP Package : KAP0 Module : PS-IS-REP-ACC
  • TZ21 Table for Control of cost elements for BAV statements Table Type : POOL Package : VVSRG_CORE Module : TR
  • UACOSTCOMPONENT Table for Cost Component Split Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : UA_STRUCTURE Module : FIN-BA
  • VIEA01 Table for Cost elements for owner Table Type : TRANSP Package : FVVI Module : CRM
  • VIXCMSCOELEMNT Table for Item Data: Cost Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : RE_XC_RA_MS Module : RE-FX
  • /SAPPCE/TPNV01 Table for Constr.Progr. Report/Plan Data: Definition of Cost Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : /SAPPCE/PNV Module : PS-REV-CPR
  • /SAPPCE/TPNV11 Table for C Progress Report: Group Characteristics for Cost Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : /SAPPCE/PNV Module : PS-REV-CPR
  • A061 Table for Controlling Area/Cost Center Type/Cost Center Table Type : POOL Package : VKON Module : AP-PRC-PR
  • CRMC_MKTPL_COS2 Table for CRM Marketing: cost category to cost type association Table Type : TRANSP Package : CRMC_MKTPL_KPI_INTEGRATION Module : CRM-MKT-MPL
  • CSSK Table for Cost center /cost element Table Type : TRANSP Package : KBAS Module : CRM
  • KEPH Table for Product Costing: Cost Components for Cost of Goods Mfd Table Type : TRANSP Package : CK Module : CRM
  • T77HCP_CITM Table for Cost Items Personnel Cost Planning Table Type : TRANSP Package : PAOC_HCP_CUSTOMIZING Module : PA-CP
  • T77KD Table for Admin.of Cost Planning Scenarios in Personnel Cost Planning Table Type : TRANSP Package : PP07 Module : PA-CM-CP
  • TCKH2 Table for Assignment: Cost Element Interval - Cost Component Structure Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKJ1 Module : CO-PC-PCP
  • TCKH4 Table for Cost Component Structure for Cost of Goods Manufactured Table Type : TRANSP Package : CKJ1 Module : CO-PC-PCP
  • TKV11 Table for Target Cost Versions: Cost Element Group Assignment Table Type : TRANSP Package : KKS Module : CO-PC-OBJ-PER
  • ABC_F4TAB Table for CO-ABC: Table for Subdividing F4 Data Elements Table Type : TRANSP Package : KABT Module : CO-OM-ABC
  • PS_ALLACC Table Data element for Indicator: All WBS elements are account assignment elements
  • VVRKTYP Table Data element for Cost categories for owner cost elements
  • CNV_20100_KONTO_CHANGE Table Data element for Indicator: G/L accounts and cost elements are changed
  • FAGL_COFI_ACCDET_PAR_ACTIVE Table Data element for Acc. Det. for Primary Cost Elements with Parallel Valuation
  • FE_IGN_SCE Table Data element for Flag: Ignore secondary cost elements in trace allowed?
  • FE_EXT_SET Table Data element for Treatment of external settlement cost elements
  • FPB_UNPLANNED Table Data element for Unplanned Cost Elements
  • INTEG_CO Table Data element for Type of integration between G/L accounts and cost elements
  • FC_FLGPCAI Table Data element for Secondary cost elements mapped on a range basis
  • JUMLF Table Data element for Cost Elements That Can Be Apportioned
  • SKSTSCHL Table Data element for Key for accountancy firms cost elements
  • RESCISAPPORTIONABLE Table Data element for Cost Elements That Can Be Apportioned

Cost elements Table in SAP

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SAP is the short form of Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing. It is one of the largest business process related software. This software focused on business processes on ERP & CRM.

Like most other software, SAP also using database tables to store the data. In SAP thousands of tables are there to store different data. A table contains several fields and some of the fields will be key fields.

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CML_TOPT_ASSIGNMENT_RULES

Landed Cost Trade Operation Template Assignment Rules Table - This table stores the assignment rules for a trade operation template. Assignment Rules determine the templates relevant for a particular Trade Operation or PO schedule. User will also be able to search templates based on these rules.

Schema: FUSION

Object owner: CML

Object type: TABLE

Tablespace: Default

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  1. Cost Elements

    Use. Cost elements classify the valuated consumption of production factors of an enterprise within a controlling area. They provide information concerning the value flow and value consumption within the enterprise. A cost element corresponds to a cost-relevant chart of accounts item. Cost elements are depicted in the system as a type of G/L ...

  2. Cost Elements

    Cost Elements; Controlling (CO) 2023 Latest. Available Versions: 2023 Latest ; 2023 Latest ; 2022 Latest ; ... Table of Contents ... Account Assignment of Controlling Objects . Period Lock . Overhead . Cost Accounting Methods . Multiple Valuation Approaches in Overhead Cost Controlling . Archiving My Unusual Items (FICO_MYUS) Cost Element ...

  3. Cost element

    Cost elements in Controlling (CO) are closely related to the general ledger accounts used in Financial Accounting (FI) as the SAP system is an integrated accounting system: Cost elements document which costs (differentiated by category) are incurred within a settlement period, and in which amount. They provide information concerning the value ...

  4. SAP Cost Element Tables: TIV51 and TIV82

    Cost elements text table TIV51: Real Estate Management: TKA4E: Cost Element Attribute: Overhead Cost Controlling: VIEA01: Cost elements for owner: Real Estate Management: TCKHA: Cost Element/Origin Assignment with Additive Costs: Product Cost Planning: TPIK2: Cost Elements: Value Categories: Accounting: CSKA: Cost Elements (Data Dependent on ...

  5. S/4 HANA Finance Cost Elements

    If you have entered default account assignments in your cost element master data, the migration process creates entries in table TKA3A for these default assignments. You can check them using transaction code OKB9. The account type alone does not define how the account is used in CO. This is done by assigning a cost element category to each account.

  6. Cost Element Tables in SAP

    Progress: cost element Assignments Project Systems - Progress Analysis: Transparent Table 49 : TCKH2 Assignment: cost element Interval - Cost Component Structure CO - Product Cost Planning: Transparent Table 50 : COOM_CI_CSKB_IDOC Customer Fields for cost element Master Record ALE

  7. SAP Cost Elements Tutorial

    Welcome to the tutorial about SAP Cost Elements. This tutorial is part of our free SAP CO training. SAP Cost Elements are important objects that help users to analyze or reconcile costs between Financial Account (FI) and Managerial Accounting (CO) modules of SAP ERP. There are two types of cost elements that are generally used in an ...

  8. Cost element Table in SAP

    A table contains several fields and some of the fields will be key fields. List of Cost element tables in SAP. UAGRPCOMPASSIGN for Cost Comp. Split Element Groups: Assignment Group-Element. CSSK for Cost center /cost element. TCKH2 for Assignment: Cost Element Interval - Cost Component Structure.

  9. Defining General Ledger (G/L) Accounts and Cost Elements

    Chart of Account. Each G/L is set up according to a chart of accounts. The chart of accounts contains the definitions of all G/L accounts. The definitions consist of the account number, the account name, and the type of G/L account (e.g. balance sheet, non operating expenses/revenues, primary costs/revenues, secondary costs or cash accounts).

  10. Planning Costs for WBS Elements

    Easy Cost Planning (ECP) enables you to plan costs for WBS elements. You can access ECP for projects from the Project Builder. You choose a WBS element from the structure and then create costing items for this WBS element. Cost planning with ECP is cost element-based. The cost planning periods are determined from the basic start and the basic ...

  11. What is Cost Element Accounting in SAP

    Cost element is an item in the chart of accounts, which is used in controlling area to record the values assigned consumption of production factors like raw material, utilities, etc. cost elements are divided in to two types i.e. Primary Cost Elements: -. Primary cost elements describes the costs that occurs outside of controlling.

  12. Cost Element Categories

    Cost Element Categories; Controlling (CO) 2023 Latest. Available Versions: 2023 Latest ; 2023 (Oct 2023) ... Table of Contents ... Account Assignment of Controlling Objects . Period Lock . Overhead . Cost Accounting Methods . Multiple Valuation Approaches in Overhead Cost Controlling . Archiving My Unusual Items (FICO_MYUS) Cost Element ...

  13. Cost elements Table in SAP

    List of Cost elements tables in SAP. VIEA02 for Allocation of costs elements to owner cost elements. FINB_MD_0110 for Registration: Elements on Data Elements (Attr./Key). GRPGA for Assignment of WBS elements to MRP WBS elements. TWB_RMP for Work Breakdown Structure Elements (WBS Elements).

  14. Cost Element Categories

    Table of Contents Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) ... The account assignment options for cost elements of this category are the same as for cost element category 11 (revenue elements). ... Cost elements of this category are generated automatically when you create cost elements in Controlling that have asset reconciliation accounts, that is ...

  15. CML_TOPT_ASSIGNMENT_RULES

    Landed Cost Trade Operation Template Assignment Rules Table - This table stores the assignment rules for a trade operation template. Assignment Rules determine the templates relevant for a particular Trade Operation or PO schedule. User will also be able to search templates based on these rules.