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Unit 4 - Management Accounting
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05/08/2012

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Term
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
Definition
Costs from Overhead Cost Controlling (CO-OM) and Product Cost Accounting (CO-PC) can flow into _____.
Term
Overhead Cost Controlling Area
Definition
Within the ____, costs can be posted to cost centers, internal orders, and processes from other SAP ERP applications (external costs).
Term
Statistical Posting
Definition
Posting to a cost object will create a ____ to a profit center.
Term
Cost Objects
Definition
____ can receive direct postings from financial accounting, costs from cost centers, costs settled from internal orders, and costs allocated from Activity-Based Costing processes.
Term
1. Financial Accounting
2. cost assessments
Definition
In addition to direct postings from 1.___, Profitability Analysis can receive 2._____ form cost centers and ABC processes, settlements of cost from internal orders, and production variances settled from cost objects.
Term
Expense to the G/L, expense posted as cost to a cost center.
Definition
What happens when a non-stock item is purchased?
Term
Management Accounting
Definition
Most expense postings in the G/L result in a cost posting in ____
Term
revenue postings
Definition
Sales Order Management is a primary source for _____ from billing documents to revenue postings in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) , and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
Term
Goods Issue Transaction
Definition
A ____ can create a cost posting in Management Accounting to whichever cost object is specified.
Term
Business Control Area
Definition
Not assigned to anything, only a reporting code. Groups strategic business unitys for reporting P and L and financial statements. Can also be cross-company code.
Term
Controlling Area
Definition
Basic Organizational unit in Managerial Accounting.
Term
Controlling Area
Definition
Closed entity used for cost accounting. You can allocate costs ONLY within this.
Term
operating chart of accounts and the same fiscal year variant
Definition
The controlling area and its company codes must use the same (2 things)
Term
Operating Concern
Definition
Profitability Analysis is used with this. It represents the structure of external market segments for the enterprise. You can assign several controlling areas to each of these so you can analyze them together.
Term
Company Code
Definition
Independent Accounting unit. (think legal reporting requirements)
Term
Controlling area currency, company code currency/object currency, transaction currency.
Definition
You may use three currencies in MA. What are they?
Term
More than one (as needed)
Definition
You may assign how many company codes to a single controlling area?
Term
Secondary Cost elements
Definition
Defined only in CO and are used for internal CO allocations. They dont have any corresponding G/L accounts in FI.
Term
Organizational Divisions
Definition
You make these on the basis of functional, settlement-related, activity-related, spatial, and/or responsibility-related standpoints.
Term
Cost centers
Definition
Can be set up according to different design approaches, including: functional requirements, allocation criteria, activities or services provided, geographic location and/or area of responsibility. Should be consistent.
Term
Basic Data - Description of cost center.
Cost Center Hierarchy - Standard node to which assigned. Controlling area must have unique one that includes every cost center created in that controlling area.
Profit Center - IDs a purpose of the center
Company Code/Business Area - Close ties between MGT accounting and FIN accounting
Definition
Name all the cost center data parts and what they contain. (4)
Term
Activity Type
Definition
Serve as tracing factors for cost allocation.
Term
Internal Activity
Definition
Allocated using secondary cost elements, which are stored in the master data of the activity types as default values.
Term
which cost centers provide which activity types at which price.
Definition
To enable internal activity allocations, you need to specify: (3 things)
Term
Statistical Key Figures
Definition
Used as the allocation base, or tracing factors that define some measurable value applicable to cost/profit centers, internal orders, or processes. Also can be used for periodic allocation transactions, like distribution or assessment, as well as analysis purposes.
Term
Fixed - stays the same (T1) or total value - tends to change (T2)
Definition
Statistical Key figures can be defined as either: (2 things)
Term
-Statistical Order
-Statistical Project
-Profit Center: NO (contains only real)
Definition
Which of the following contain both true and statistical objects in them?
-Statistical Order
-Statistical Project
-Profit Center
Term
Controlling object posted to, cost element used, and the amount
Definition
The CO document has its own unique number and contains the following details (3 things)
Term
a primary cost element has been created in CO that corresponds to the expense account used in the FI journal entry and a valid cost center is referenced in the FI line item.
Definition
When a journal entry is created in FI that includes an expense line item, that expense can be posted to CO as a cost if: (2 things)
Term
Direct activity allocation
Definition
In order to enter ____, you must enter the cost center that provides the activity (sender cost center), the object that receives the activity (receiver), the type (activity type), and the quantity of the activity provided.
Term
*Operating concern and controlling area
Definition
List the two organizational units defined in controlling
Term
Marking enables the results of the standard cost estimate to be updated as the future standard price in the material master. Releasing a standard cost estimate enables the future standard price to be updated as the current standard price and the current planned price in the material master.
Definition
what is the difference between marking a standard cost estimate and releasing a standard cost estimate?
Term
Cost centers, real internal orders, real projects, networks, cost objects, and profitability segments
Definition
List the true cost objects (6 things)
Term
False (periodic posting and distributions used the original cost elements while assessments use secondary cost elements)
Definition
When allocating cost centers using assessments, the original cost elements are used to track the movement from sender to receiver. (T/F)
Term
Overhead orders, investment orders, accrual orders, orders with revenue
Definition
what are the four typical uses of internal orders?
Term
to measure the profitability of areas of responsibility within the organization
Definition
Describe the goal of profit center accounting.
Term
Overall planning - simplest
Primary/Secondary cost and revenue planning - more detailed info about internal orders
unit costing - most detailed planning on cost elements
Definition
Identify and describe the three different cost planning levels that are available for planning internal orders.
Term
Recorded when: assign an overhead order to a purchase requisition or purchase order line item.
Reduced commitment: posting a goods receipt against a PO.
Definition
When is a commitment recorded? When is the commitment reduced?
Term
As long as the receivers are defined as valid in customizing and no impending system restrictions (such as locks) prevent settlement.
Definition
When can an order settlement be made to numerous different types of receiver?
Term
- Product Cost Planning
- Cost Object Controlling
- Actual Costing and Material Ledger
Definition
What three components comprise Product Cost Accounting?
Term
Cost estimate, actual costs
Definition
Period-end closing calculates the value of goods still in production (WIP) and the variances between the ____ and the ____, and settles them to other components such as Profitability Analysis and Financial Accounting
Term
- The period of validity of the cost estimate (costing date from/to)
- the selection date for the bill of material and routing (quantity structure dates)
- the pricing data for the material components and activities (valuation date)
Definition
The dates proposed from the costing variant specify the following: (3 things)
Term
1. Standard cost estimate must be free of errors
2. The marking and release must be allowed.
Definition
The following prerequisites must be met before a standard cost estimate can be marked or released: (2 things)
Term
Material Ledger
Definition
A standard price is required in the ____ to determine the actual price.
Term
Account Assignment Object
Definition
When controlling is active, each posting to a revenue or expense account that has been set up as a cost element in CO requires a(n) _____. This specifies where the revenue or cost will reside in CO.
Term
1. All postings for revenue and cost elements (assignment to the profit center using the MA account assignment object)
2. Expense and revenue accounts that are posted to using logistics transactions.
3. Balance sheet accounts and other expense and revenue accounts (optional)
Definition
What data is transferred to Profit Center Accounting? (2 required, 1 optional)
Term
Costing-based Profitability analysis
Definition
The following describes what:
- Has reports that display values by value fields (flexibly defined key figures)
- Can be expanded with other anticipated values, such as accrued freight costs
- uses special database tables
- produces revenues and cost of sales simultaneously when the billing document is calculated
Term
account-based profitability analysis
Definition
The following describes what?
- has reports that display values by cost element and revenue element
- reconciles directly with financial accounting at account level
- shares data tables with other management accounting applications, such as cost center accounting
- posts revenues when the billing document is created, but updates cost of sales at the point of goods issue
Term
1. when orders are created or changed (optional)
2. when invoices are generated for an order
Definition
In costing-based profitability analysis, information can be taken at what two points in the sales order cycle?
Term
1. when a goods issue is posted
2. when an invoice is generated for the goods issue
Definition
In account-based profitability analysis, information can be taken at which two points in the sales order cycle?
Term
1. allocation of internal activities
2. assessment
3. order settlement
4. project settlement
Definition
How can you allocate overhead costs that were not allocated to product cost controlling to profitability analysis? (4 ways)
Term
False. (sales and distribution, materials management, human capital management can also transfer expense and revenue postings in CO)
Definition
The FI module is the only source of expense and revenue postings in CO. (true/false)
Term
False. (A primary cost element is linked to a G/L account. A secondary cost element is used within CO to allocate costs between objects.
Definition
A secondary cost element is linked to a G/L account to ensure that expense postings pass to CO. (True/False)
Term
Operating concern
Definition
You must have a(n) ______ in order to do profitability analysis. (this is at the organizational structure level)
Term
1. Profitability Analysis
2. Overhead Cost Controlling
3. Product Cost Controlling
4. Profit Center Accounting
5. Cost and revenue element sharing
Definition
What are the 5 main areas of controlling?
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