SAP PS: Costs

SAP Project Systems: Costs is an online tutorial library provided by SAP AG. This SAP PS tutorial is intended for SAP System Administrators, Project Systems (PS) developer and SAP technology Consultants.
This SAP Project System documentation explains you about component named "Costs" in Project system module and its purpose for planning, monitoring and controlling project costs for better cost accounting. This SAP PS tutorial explains about this component's integration with SAP Controlling (CO), SAP Financial Accounting (FI), SAP Production Planning and Control (PP), and SAP Materials Management (MM). Moreover this article explains you about functions of this component such as cost planning, automatic cost calculations, funds management and integration of project costs with enterprise controlling, etc.
Following are the few topics covered in this SAP PS Costs documentation library.
  • SAP PS Costs Overview
  • Cost Planning
  • Currencies in Planning
  • Easy Cost Planning and Execution Services
  • Editing Costing Models and Assigning Attributes
  • Creating and Assigning Characteristics
  • Structuring the Entry Screen
  • Defining Derivation Rules
  • Template for Easy Cost Planning
  • Easy Cost Planning in the Project System
  • Executing Easy Cost Planning
  • Triggering the Execution Services
  • Example of the Easy Cost Planning of a Project
  • Manual Cost Planning in the Work Breakdown Structure
  • Plan Line Items
  • Totaling Up Plan Values
  • Adjusting Plan Values
  • Presenting Planning Values
  • Planning Costs
  • Checking Cost Planning
  • Planning Annual Values
  • Cost Planning in Networks
  • Network Planned Costs
  • Calculating Planned Costs
  • Basis Values for Network Costings
  • Costing by Period
  • Determining Planned Costs in Networks
  • Displaying Planned Costs
  • Calling Up the Cost Determination Error Log
  • Invoicing Plans in Networks
  • Creating Invoicing Plans
  • Generating Dates from Milestones
  • Unit Costing in Networks
  • Unit Costings in General Costs Activities
  • Unit Costings in Material Components
  • Creating Unit Costings in Networks
  • Asynchronous Network Costing
  • Executing the Asynchronous Network Costing
  • Copying Planning
  • Copying Plan and Actual Data in the WBS
  • Copying Project Costing
  • Orders for Projects
  • Plan Costs from Orders for Projects
  • Displaying Plan Costs for Orders for Projects in the Cost Inform
  • Plan Values from Customer Quotations and Sales Orders
  • Settling Orders for Projects
  • Deleting and Archiving Orders
  • Project Cost Forecast
  • Costs to Complete for Internally Processed Activities
  • Costs to Complete for Externally Processed Activities
  • Costs to Complete for General Costs Activities
  • Costs to Complete for Material Components
  • Executing the Cost Forecast
  • Budget Management
  • Budget Management for Internal Orders
  • Budgeting in More Than One Currency
  • Budget Allocation Prerequisites
  • Allocating Original Budget
  • Transferring Cost Planning Values As Budget
  • Manual Distribution of Budgets
  • System Status: Budgeted
  • Totaling up Budget Values
  • Re valuating Budget Values
  • Entering Budget Texts
  • Budget Value Display
  • Copying Views
  • Checking Budgeting
  • Saving Without Checks
  • Distributing Annual Budgets
  • Displaying Budget Line Items
  • Budget Updates
  • Budget Supplement
  • Making Budget Supplements in Projects
  • Making Budget Supplements to Projects
  • Budget Returns
  • Making Budget Returns in Projects
  • Making Budget Returns From Projects
  • Budget Transfer Posting
  • Run Budget Update Reports
  • Releasing The Budget
  • Budget Carry forward
  • Request For Budget Increase In The Intranet
  • Special Fields In The Form
  • Customizing Settings For Form Fields
  • Form For The Approving Manager Or Processor
  • Task Processing
  • Processing Tasks Using Worklist
  • Processing Tasks Using Workflow
  • Document Flow
  • Displaying the Document Flow for a Notification
  • Status Query
  • Availability Control
  • Assigned Value In Internal Orders
  • Assigned Value In Projects
  • Entering Settings For Availability Control
  • Basic Settings for Availability Control in Budget Profile
  • Specifying Tolerance Limits
  • Availability Control Actions
  • Transaction Group
  • Activating Availability Control
  • Activating Availability Control with Budget Allocation
  • Activating Availability Control In The Background
  • Activating Availability Control Online
  • Checking Whether Availability Control is Active
  • Deactivating Availability Control
  • Excluding WBS Elements From Availability Control
  • Referencing Availability Control In Projects
  • Reconstructing Availability Control
  • Notes for Problems with Availability Control
  • Commitments Management (CO)
  • Commitment
  • Activate Commitments Management
  • Commitments Management Flow
  • How Purchase Order Commitments are Created
  • Creating Purchase Order Commitments
  • Reducing Purchase Order Commitments to Zero
  • Example: Individual Purchase Order on an Internal Order
  • Example: Creating Purchase Order Commitments
  • Example: Partial Reduction of Purchase Order Commitments
  • Example: Updating Purchase Order Commitments
  • Example: Reducing Purchase Order Commitments to Zero
  • Example: Increasing the Actual Costs
  • Commitments Information System
  • Calling Up Total Cost Reports
  • Calling Up Cost Element Reports
  • Calling Up Line Item Reports
  • Funds Commitment (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Projects)
  • Creating Funds Commitments
  • Changing Funds Commitments
  • Reducing Funds Commitments
  • Evaluating Funds Commitment Documents in The Information System
  • Requesting an Adjustment Posting from the Intranet (AC)
  • Processing Request Forms
  • Processing a Request in the SAP System
  • Processing Notifications
  • Process Notification
  • Processing Notifications Using Worklist
  • Task Processing
  • Processing Tasks Using Worklist
  • Processing Tasks Using Workflow
  • Document Flow
  • Displaying the Document Flow for a Notification
  • Status Query For Request
  • Automatic and Periodic Allocations
  • Periodic Allocations
  • Period-End Closing in Projects
  • Project Settlement
  • Project Settlement Recommendations
  • Recommendations in Overhead Cost Projects
  • Recommendations in Capital-Investment Projects
  • Recommendations in Customer Projects
  • Automatically Generated Settlement Rules
  • Generating Settlement Rules
  • Consistency Check on Master Data/Settlement Rule
  • Interest Calculation
  • Actual Interest Calculation
  • Hierarchy Processing in and Control of the Interest Calculation
  • Taking Account of Changes in the Hierarchy
  • Hierarchy Processing Examples
  • Executing the Actual Interest Calculation
  • Update Log
  • Planned Interest Calculation
  • Planned Interest Calculation Period
  • Executing the Planned Interest Calculation
  • Detail Display for Planned Interim Balances
  • Canceling Interest Runs
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