Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 15 · Cost Accounting Structures
What breaks
Lesson 160 of 188 · 3 min
"Cost setup is not working." Check in this order. One. Is the profit center business unit set on the inventory organization? Two. Does a cost organization relationship cover this inventory organization? Three. Does the item have a cost profile — or does a default apply? Four. Are cost components mapped to elements? Five. Is the cost accounting period open? Six. Do you have the cost organization security context? Then eight cases. One. "Quick setup cannot find the business unit." The enterprise prerequisites flag — the most persistent thread in this whole course: five modules, one checkbox. Two. "We chose the wrong cost method and we have been live for six weeks." Unrecoverable. A new cost organization and a migration. This is the failure this module exists to prevent, and there is no fix line because there is no fix. Three. "Transactions are not costing." No cost organization relationship for that…
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In this module: Module 15 · Cost Accounting Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2The warning nobody readsFree preview
- 3The costing object model
- 4Choosing a cost method
- 5Cost organization design
- 6Running the costing design workshop
- 7Cost organizations and cost books
- 8Cost organization relationships
- 9Cost elements and components
- 10Cost component mappings
- 11Valuation structures and units
- 12Cost profiles
- 13Expense pools and accounting
- 14Quick setup for cost accounting
- 15What breaks
- 16Lab briefing: the Halden costing design
- 17Lab solution walkthrough