SAP Note

721487 - Balance remains on cost center after price calculation

Component: CO-OM-ACT-F (Controlling > Overhead Cost Controlling > Activity Types > Period-end Closing),
Version: 4, Released On: 30.07.2004

Symptom
After an actual price determination you expect that a cost center has a balance of 0, that
is to say the credit amounts correspond to the debit amounts. However, this is not the case.

Other Terms
KSII, CPII, KSS2, KSPI

Reason and Prerequisites

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Solution
Carry out the following cause study:
• During the price calculation no error message must be issued from the splitting for the
affected cost center, in particular error message KD302 "Cost center &, cost element &:
Splitting is not possible" must not be issued. In this case not all costs of the cost
center are taken into account during the price calculation and a complete credit is not
possible.
For a more detailed analysis of the error cause carry out the actual cost splitting
(Transaction KSS2) for the affected cost center and period in a test run.
• If you have not set flag 'Execute intern. act. splitting' in the settings for the price
calculation, the actual splitting (Transaction KSS2) must have been separately executed
before the actual price determination. (This is indicated if records with value type
'03' exist for the object in table COSS.)
• The revaluation of the price calculation must be activated. Only then all activity
allocations of the CO-PA with cost center recipient, business process or profitability
segment are revaluated with the current actual price during the actual price
determination.
To create this setting call the version management (Transaction OKEV), double-click
'Settings for Each Fiscal Year' and choose tab page 'Price calculation'. Whether the
revaluation is executed in an own business transaction or in the original business
transaction does not influence the result.
• You also have to consider the selected procedure of the actual price determination which
is also set in Transaction OKEV:
◦ Period price: A zero balance can be achieved in each period.
◦ Average price: If, for example, the price calculation is carried out for periods 1 to
6, a balance of 0 can only be achieved in the total of the periods 1 to 6. A debit or
credit remains in a single period.
◦ Cumulative price: Only if the price calculation was carried out for all prior periods
and a complete credit was achieved in each case, a zero balance can be achieved in
the current period. Otherwise a complete credit only results in the total of period 1
up to the current period.
• The actual activity price indicators of all activity types on the cost center must be 5.
Only in this case an iterative actual price, which can result in a complete credit of
the cost center, is calculated on basis of the actual activity during the actual price
 determination.
A default value for the actual price indicator is defined in the master record of the
activity type (Transaction KL02). It can be set fiscal year-dependent or version-
dependent during the planning of the activity type (Transaction KP26, layout 1-204). It
is displayed in the output list of the actual price determination in column 'PrIn'.
For more detailed information refer to Note 597159.
• If the price calculation is simultaneously executed for several periods, indicator
'Average price' must not be set for an activity type.
It is also planned in Transaction KP26 and displayed in the output list of the price
calculation in column 'AvgPrice'.
• Activity allocations of the cost center exist on orders, network activities or WBS
element. These are NOT revaluated with the current actual price during the price
calculation. This is done, depending on the object type, in Transactions CON2, CJN1,
CJN2, VAN1, KON1, KON2, MFN1, CON1. The system has to check whether for all orders, on
which the cost center has cleared activities, the revaluation with actual prices has run
without errors. Possibly the corresponding revaluation transaction must be executed
again in the test run. (The records are stored in the database in table COSS with
transaction 'RKLN').
• In order to have a cleared plan with balance 0 after a plan price determination for a
cost center, you must make sure that the plan reconciliation (Transaction KPSI) was
carried out beforehand. Only if all cost centers / activity types that are linked to the
examined cost center in the activity network are really reconciled, the credits will
match the debits.

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

597159 CO-OM-ACT-F Price calculation seems to calculate incorrect values

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SAP Note/KBA Component Title

597159 Price calculation seems to calculate incorrect values