Profit Center Accounting Cost Allocation

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• Profit Center Accounting Cost Allocation
• SAP Best Practices for Media (US)

____________________ Scenario ID O22 SAP Best
Practices SAP AG     
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Scenario Overview
Purpose and Benefits

• Purpose
• This scenario demonstrates a method for
  allocating costs from the headquarters profit
  center to other profit center segments. The
  allocation has been setup as a fixed percentage
  to the receiving profit centers.
• Benefits
• Allows overhead related costs to be captured in
  one profit center and then those costs can be
  distributed to other profit centers.
• Key process flows covered
• Profit Center Accounting
• Profit Center Hierarchy
• Assessment Cycle

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Scenario Overview
SAP Applications Required

• Required
• SAP ECC 6.0
• Company roles involved in process flows
• Accounting Clerk

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Scenario Overview
Detailed Process Description

• In the first step of this process some overhead
  related costs are manually posted to the
  headquarters profit center to mimic the type of
  costs that might be posted automatically.
• The next step demonstrates how the assessment
  cycle is activated which triggers the cost from
  the headquarters profit center to be distributed
  to the other product segment profit centers.
• In this last step a report is generate which
  demonstrates that the costs from the headquarters
  profit center have been allocated to the product
  segment profit centers.

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Process Flow Diagram
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Legend
Budget Planning
Event
Process Reference
Manual Process
Sub-Process Reference
Existing Version / Data
Unit Process
Process Decision
Hardcopy / Document
System path/fall decision
Finacial Actuals