Cycles????

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

can any one explain me ......

What is this Assessment cycle?

What is the Distribution cycle?

Actually i heard this cycles with my Controlling team.

Plz explain me ....how it works...

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Chandra

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Use of Cycles in Profitability Analysis

For the periodic transfer of overhead to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), start an assessment or an indirect activity allocation at the end of the month. This performs a cycle or several cycles at once. These cycles contain the control information and can be maintained in Customizing in CO-PA.

Cycles for period-based allocation are mainly used in overhead allocation (CO-OM) to allocate cost center costs to other cost centers or to other receiver objects in CO-OM. In the documentation for Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA), you can find detailed information about the scope of functions for using cycles. This section will concentrate on the special features for using cycles in CO-PA and includes references to the appropriate and more detailed sections in the CO-OM-CCA documentation.

Refer below link...

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/7a/4c3afb4a0111d1894c0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Edited by: VenkatSrinvas Konda on Dec 30, 2008 7:49 AM

[nitin_patoliya]

Periodic repostings, assessment, distribution, and indirect activity allocation are defined using cycles. In a cycle you define the sender-receiver relationships and the corresponding distribution rules.

During periodic repostings, assessment, distribution, and indirect activity allocation, all sender-/receiver relationships defined in a cycle are processed together iteratively. If you want to process hierarchies separately, you must define a cycle for each level of the hierarchy. You then process the cycles in succession.

These are the txn being used for that KSU1 to KSU9

Also refer this post.

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Nitin

[Former Member]

Thanx for your valuable inputs from both.

I have rewarded points.

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Chandra

[nitin_patoliya]

In Distribution and Assessment, you further allocate costs (or quantities for Indirect Activity Allocations) collected on a cost center during the accounting period to receivers, according to user-defined keys.

The advantage of these methods is that they are easy to use. You usually define the keys and the sender/receiver relationships only once.

Distribution is used to allocate the primary costs of a cost center

Assessment is a method of allocating primary and secondary costs in Cost Center Accounting and Activity-Based Costing.

For the details refer this link (click on periodic allocation distrivution and assessment )

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/08/514e1443b511d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

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Nitin

[Former Member]

Thanx Nitin.

I have rewarded points.

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Chandra