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Blueprint Questions
Controlling
Blueprint Questions - Controlling
Table of Contents1. Revenue and cost controlling.............................................................................................91.1. Overhead Cost Controlling..............................................................................................91.1.1. Cost Element................................................................................................................91.1.1.1. Primary Cost Element................................................................................................91.1.1.2. Secondary Cost Element...........................................................................................91.1.1.3. Cost Element Group..................................................................................................91.1.2. Cost Center.................................................................................................................. 91.1.2.1. Cost Center...............................................................................................................91.1.2.2. Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers.........................................................................91.1.2.3. Cost Center Group....................................................................................................101.1.3. Activity Type................................................................................................................. 101.1.3.1. Activity Type..............................................................................................................101.1.3.2. Activity Type Group...................................................................................................101.1.4. Statistical Key Figures..................................................................................................101.1.4.1. Statistical Key Figures...............................................................................................101.1.4.2. Statistical Key Figure Group......................................................................................101.1.5. Business Process.........................................................................................................111.1.5.1. Business Process......................................................................................................111.1.5.2. Standard Hierarchy for Business Processes.............................................................111.1.5.3. Business Process Group...........................................................................................111.1.6. Internal Order...............................................................................................................111.2. Product Cost Controlling..................................................................................................111.2.1. Procurement Alternative...............................................................................................111.2.2. Cost Component...........................................................................................................111.2.3. Product Cost Collectors................................................................................................121.2.4. Material Ledger Data....................................................................................................121.3. Profitability Analysis.........................................................................................................121.3.1. Characteristics..............................................................................................................121.3.1.1. Characteristic Definition.............................................................................................121.3.1.2. Characteristic Values.................................................................................................131.3.1.3. Characteristic Derivation............................................................................................131.3.2. Value Fields..................................................................................................................131.3.2.1. Definition of Value Fields...........................................................................................131.3.3. Condition Types............................................................................................................141.3.3.1. Definition of Condition Types.....................................................................................142. Enterprise Controlling.........................................................................................................142.1. Consolidation................................................................................................................... 142.1.1. Consolidation Chart of Acounts / FS Item Hierarchy....................................................142.1.2. Breakdown Categories.................................................................................................152.1.3. Custom Characteristics................................................................................................152.1.4. Subitem Category.........................................................................................................152.1.5. Subitem........................................................................................................................ 162.1.6. Sets (Namespace)........................................................................................................16
B. Business processes...................................................................................................................161. Revenue and cost controlling.............................................................................................161.1. Profit and Cost Planning..................................................................................................161.1.1. Sales Planning..............................................................................................................161.1.1.1. Create Planning Proposal (with Sales Planning).......................................................161.1.1.2. Manual Sales Planning..............................................................................................171.1.1.3. Transfer of Planned Sales Quantities........................................................................171.1.2. Cost and Activity Planning............................................................................................171.1.2.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning...........................................17
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1.1.2.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan......................................................................171.1.2.3. Redefinition of Plan Version......................................................................................171.1.2.4. Planning Revaluation.................................................................................................181.1.2.5. Budget Planning........................................................................................................181.1.2.6. Order Budgeting........................................................................................................181.1.2.7. Activity Type Planning...............................................................................................181.1.2.8. Definition of Activity Type for Cost Center.................................................................181.1.2.9. Transfer of Statistical Key Figures from LIS (Plan)....................................................181.1.2.10. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Independent)..........................................181.1.2.11. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Dependent)............................................191.1.2.12. Transfer of Personnel Costs....................................................................................191.1.2.13. Transfer of Scheduled Activity PP -> CO-ABC........................................................191.1.2.14. Transfer of Scheduled Activity from PP to CO-OM-CCA.........................................191.1.2.15. Primary Cost Planning (Full Costs)..........................................................................191.1.2.16. Primary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed).......................................................................191.1.2.17. Secondary Cost Planning (Full Costs).....................................................................201.1.2.18. Secondary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)...................................................................201.1.2.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)........................................201.1.2.20. Cost Element Planning (Order)................................................................................201.1.2.21. Overall Planning (Order)..........................................................................................201.1.2.22. Unit Costing (Order)................................................................................................201.1.2.23. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data..............................................................................201.1.2.24. Cost Accrual - Plan..................................................................................................211.1.2.25. Process Cost Planning............................................................................................211.1.2.26. Overhead Calculation (Cost Center)........................................................................211.1.2.27. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)..............................................................211.1.2.28. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order).........................................................271.1.2.29. Plan Cost Distribution..............................................................................................281.1.2.30. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data).............................................281.1.2.31. Plan Cost Assessment.............................................................................................281.1.2.32. Plan Reconciliation..................................................................................................281.1.2.33. Splitting.................................................................................................................... 291.1.2.34. Planned Price Calculation........................................................................................291.1.3. Standard Cost Estimate................................................................................................291.1.3.1. Preparation for Costing..............................................................................................291.1.3.2. Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure........................................................301.1.3.3. Standard Cost Estimate Without Quantity Structure..................................................311.1.3.4. Standard Cost Estimate for Co-Products...................................................................311.1.3.5. Price Release with Standard Cost Estimate..............................................................311.1.4. Profit Center Planning..................................................................................................321.1.4.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Profit Center Planning..........................................321.1.4.2. Copy Actual Costs to Profit Center Planning.............................................................321.1.4.3. Excel Upload -> Profit Center Planning.....................................................................321.1.4.4. Redefinition of Plan Version (Profit Center Planning)................................................321.1.4.5. Plan Integration of Profit Centers...............................................................................331.1.4.6. Manual Profit Center Planning...................................................................................331.1.4.7. Plan Profit Center Distribution...................................................................................331.1.4.8. Plan Profit Center Assessment..................................................................................331.1.5. Profit Planning..............................................................................................................331.1.5.1. Valuation of Sales Planning.......................................................................................331.1.5.2. Creation of Planning Proposal (Without Sales Planning)...........................................341.1.5.3. Manual Profit Planning..............................................................................................341.1.5.4. Planned Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis....................................341.1.5.5. Planned Allocation Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis..................................351.1.5.6. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)...............................................351.1.5.7. Project Settlement.....................................................................................................35
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1.2. Actual Cost/Revenue Allocation......................................................................................351.2.1. Overhead Allocation.....................................................................................................351.2.1.1. Direct Activity Assignment Using Time Sheet Processing.........................................351.2.1.2. Time Sheet Permit.....................................................................................................351.2.1.3. Transfer Time Sheet Data to CO...............................................................................361.2.1.4. Time Sheet Report....................................................................................................361.2.1.5. Direct Activity Allocation (Controlling)........................................................................371.2.1.6. Transfer of Primary Costs to Cost Center/Order........................................................371.2.1.7. Manual Funds Reservation........................................................................................371.2.1.8. Manual Funds Reduction...........................................................................................371.2.1.9. Manual Cost Allocation..............................................................................................371.2.2. Product Cost Allocation................................................................................................371.2.2.1. Simultaneous Costing................................................................................................371.2.3. Profit Center Allocation.................................................................................................381.2.3.1. Document Entry in the Profit Center Invoice..............................................................381.2.3.2. Actual Transfer of Additional Balance Sheet Items to EC-PCA.................................381.2.3.3. Manual Entry of Statistical Key Figures.....................................................................381.2.4. Cost and Revenue Allocation to Profitability Analysis...................................................381.2.4.1. Transfer and Valuation of Incoming Sales Orders.....................................................381.2.4.2. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Direct Sale)........................................391.2.4.3. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Third-Party Transaction)....................391.2.4.4. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Intercompany Processing).................391.2.4.5. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Complaints Processing).....................401.2.4.6. Transfer of Customer Agreements to Profitability Analysis........................................401.2.4.7. Direct Posting of Special Direct Costs and Revenues...............................................401.2.4.8. Automatic Additional Transfer into Profitability Analysis............................................401.3. Period-End Closing (Controlling).....................................................................................411.3.1. Period-End Closing in Overhead Cost Controlling........................................................411.3.1.1. Actual Periodic Reposting..........................................................................................411.3.1.2. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Target = Actual Method).................411.3.1.3. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Percentage Method).......................411.3.1.4. Actual Cost Distribution.............................................................................................421.3.1.5. Entry of Sender Activities...........................................................................................421.3.1.6. Target=Actual Activity Allocation...............................................................................421.3.1.7. Template Allocation (Overhead Cost Order)..............................................................421.3.1.8. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order)...........................................................421.3.1.9. Settlement of Overhead Orders (Actual Data)...........................................................431.3.1.10. Settlement of Accrual Orders...................................................................................431.3.1.11. Actual Cost Assessment..........................................................................................431.3.1.12. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)..............................................................441.3.1.13. Variance Calculation for Overhead..........................................................................501.3.1.14. Predistribution of Fixed Costs..................................................................................501.3.1.15. Splitting.................................................................................................................... 501.3.1.16. Actual Price Calculation...........................................................................................501.3.1.17. Revaluation at Actual Prices....................................................................................511.3.1.18. Reconciliation Financial Accounting/Controlling......................................................511.3.1.19. Business Process Analysis......................................................................................511.3.1.20. Cost Center Analysis...............................................................................................511.3.1.21. Analysis of Overhead Orders...................................................................................511.3.2. Period-End Closing for Product Cost Controlling..........................................................511.3.2.1. Template Allocation (Manufacturing Order)...............................................................511.3.2.2. Template Allocation (Product Cost Collector)............................................................521.3.2.3. Template Allocation (Cost Object).............................................................................521.3.2.4. Template Allocation (Sales Order).............................................................................521.3.2.5. Revaluation at Actual Prices......................................................................................521.3.2.6. Actual Cost Distribution - Product Costs....................................................................52
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1.3.2.7. Overhead Calculation (Sales Order)..........................................................................531.3.2.8. Overhead Calculation (Manufacturing Order)............................................................531.3.2.9. Overhead Calculation (Product Cost Collector).........................................................531.3.2.10. Overhead Calculation (Cost Object)........................................................................531.3.2.11. Distribution of Order Costs to Order Items...............................................................541.3.2.12. WIP Calculation Based On Actual Costs.................................................................541.3.2.13. WIP Calculation Based on Target Costs..................................................................541.3.2.14. Variance Calculation Cumulated.............................................................................541.3.2.15. Periodic Variance Calculation..................................................................................551.3.2.16. Settlement of Manufacturing Order to Sales Order..................................................551.3.2.17. Settlement of Manufacturing Order to Inventory......................................................551.3.2.18. Settlement of Product Cost Collector.......................................................................561.3.2.19. Settlement of Cost Object Hierarchy.......................................................................561.3.2.20. Results Analysis for Sales Orders...........................................................................561.3.2.21. Sales Order Settlement...........................................................................................561.3.2.22. Price Update in Actual Costing................................................................................561.3.2.23. Data Collection for Product Drilldown......................................................................571.3.2.24. Product Cost Analysis in Product Cost by Order.....................................................571.3.2.25. Product Cost Analysis in Product Cost by Period....................................................571.3.2.26. Product Cost Analysis for Co-Products...................................................................571.3.3. Period-End Closing for Profit Center Accounting..........................................................571.3.3.1. Actual Profit Center Distribution.................................................................................571.3.3.2. Actual Profit Center Assessment...............................................................................581.3.4. Period-End Closing for Profitability Analysis.................................................................581.3.4.1. Settlement of Sales Orders........................................................................................581.3.4.2. Settlement of Production Variances..........................................................................591.3.4.3. Settlement of Overhead Orders (Actual Data)...........................................................591.3.4.4. Project Settlement.....................................................................................................591.3.4.5. Actual Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis.......................................591.3.4.6. Actual Allocation of Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis.................................591.3.4.7. Actual Top-Down Distribution....................................................................................601.3.4.8. Analysis of Results and Contribution Margins...........................................................602. Enterprise Controlling.........................................................................................................602.1. Operational business planning........................................................................................602.1.1. Sales Planning..............................................................................................................602.1.1.1. Create Planning Proposal (with Sales Planning).......................................................602.1.1.2. Manual Sales Planning..............................................................................................612.1.1.3. Transfer of Planned Sales Quantities........................................................................612.1.2. Master planning............................................................................................................612.1.2.1. Forecast..................................................................................................................... 612.1.2.2. Standard SOP...........................................................................................................622.1.2.3. Transfer of Results to Demand Management............................................................632.1.2.4. Demand management...............................................................................................632.1.2.5. Planning Scenario Processing...................................................................................642.1.2.6. Master Production Scheduling - Total Planning.........................................................642.1.2.7. Master Production Scheduling - Evaluation...............................................................662.1.2.8. Overall Material Requirements Planning...................................................................662.1.2.9. Material requirements planning - evaluation..............................................................672.1.3. Cost and Activity Planning............................................................................................672.1.3.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning...........................................672.1.3.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan......................................................................682.1.3.3. Redefinition of Plan Version......................................................................................682.1.3.4. Planning Revaluation.................................................................................................682.1.3.5. Budget Planning........................................................................................................682.1.3.6. Order Budgeting........................................................................................................682.1.3.7. Activity Type Planning...............................................................................................69
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2.1.3.8. Definition of Activity Type for Cost Center.................................................................692.1.3.9. Transfer of Statistical Key Figures from LIS (Plan)....................................................692.1.3.10. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Independent)..........................................692.1.3.11. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Dependent)............................................692.1.3.12. Transfer of Personnel Costs....................................................................................692.1.3.13. Transfer of Scheduled Activity PP -> CO-ABC........................................................692.1.3.14. Transfer of Scheduled Activity from PP to CO-OM-CCA.........................................702.1.3.15. Primary Cost Planning (Full Costs)..........................................................................702.1.3.16. Primary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed).......................................................................702.1.3.17. Secondary Cost Planning (Full Costs).....................................................................702.1.3.18. Secondary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)...................................................................702.1.3.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)........................................702.1.3.20. Cost Element Planning (Order)................................................................................712.1.3.21. Overall Planning (Order)..........................................................................................712.1.3.22. Unit Costing (Order)................................................................................................712.1.3.23. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data..............................................................................712.1.3.24. Imputed Costs - Plan...............................................................................................712.1.3.25. Process Cost Planning............................................................................................712.1.3.26. Overhead Calculation (Cost Center)........................................................................712.1.3.27. Overhead Calculation [Overhead Order].................................................................722.1.3.28. Plan Cost Distribution..............................................................................................722.1.3.29. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data).............................................722.1.3.30. Plan Cost Assessment.............................................................................................732.1.3.31. Plan Reconciliation..................................................................................................732.1.3.32. Splitting.................................................................................................................... 732.1.3.33. Planned Price Calculation........................................................................................742.1.4. Standard cost estimate.................................................................................................742.1.4.1. Preparation for Costing..............................................................................................742.1.4.2. Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure........................................................742.1.4.3. Standard Cost Estimate Without Quantity Structure..................................................752.1.4.4. Standard Cost Estimate for Co-Products...................................................................762.1.4.5. Price Release with Standard Cost Estimate..............................................................762.1.5. Profit Center Planning..................................................................................................762.1.5.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Profit Center Planning..........................................762.1.5.2. Copy Actual Costs to Profit Center Planning.............................................................772.1.5.3. Excel Upload -> Profit Center Planning.....................................................................772.1.5.4. Redefinition of Plan Version (Profit Center Planning)................................................772.1.5.5. Plan Integration of Profit Centers...............................................................................772.1.5.6. Manual Profit Center Planning...................................................................................782.1.5.7. Plan Profit Center Distribution...................................................................................782.1.5.8. Plan Profit Center Assessment..................................................................................782.1.6. Profit Planning..............................................................................................................782.1.6.1. Valuation of Sales Planning.......................................................................................782.1.6.2. Creation of Planning Proposal (Without Sales Planning)...........................................782.1.6.3. Manual Profit Planning..............................................................................................792.1.6.4. Planned Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis....................................792.1.6.5. Planned Allocation Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis..................................792.1.6.6. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)...............................................802.1.6.7. Project Settlement.....................................................................................................802.1.6.8. Analysis of Results And Contribution Margins...........................................................802.2. Strategic Business Planning............................................................................................812.2.1. Data modeling..............................................................................................................822.2.2. Basic settings...............................................................................................................832.2.2.1. Foreign currencies.....................................................................................................832.2.2.2. File names................................................................................................................. 832.2.3. Data basis..................................................................................................................... 83
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2.2.3.1. Characteristics...........................................................................................................832.2.3.2. Basic key figures.......................................................................................................842.2.3.3. Aspect 842.2.3.4. Calculated Key Figures.............................................................................................852.2.3.5. Comment tables........................................................................................................852.2.3.6. Fixed Characteristics.................................................................................................852.2.3.7. Summarization levels................................................................................................852.2.3.8. Currency Translation Types for Data Transfer and Planning Layouts.......................862.2.3.9. Derivation.................................................................................................................. 862.2.3.10. Validation.................................................................................................................862.2.3.11. Data slices...............................................................................................................862.2.4. Data transfer.................................................................................................................862.2.4.1. External Systems.......................................................................................................862.2.4.2. Transaction data........................................................................................................872.2.4.3. Master data................................................................................................................872.2.4.4. Comments.................................................................................................................872.2.4.5. Master Data Hierarchy...............................................................................................872.2.4.6. Transfer procedure....................................................................................................872.2.4.7. File 872.2.4.8. Control Report Portfolio.............................................................................................882.2.5. Business Planning........................................................................................................882.2.5.1. Create planning layout...............................................................................................882.2.5.2. Maintain planner profiles...........................................................................................882.2.5.3. Create Distribution Key..............................................................................................882.2.5.4. Change Revaluation Factor.......................................................................................882.2.5.5. Maintain forecast profiles...........................................................................................882.2.5.6. Maintain weighting group...........................................................................................892.2.5.7. Object-Dependent Parameters..................................................................................892.2.5.8. Maintain calculation formulas for basic key figures....................................................892.2.6. Information System.......................................................................................................892.2.6.1. Maintain Report Selection..........................................................................................892.2.6.2. Print in MS Word for Windows...................................................................................892.2.7. Tools............................................................................................................................. 892.2.7.1. Conversion to Release 4.0........................................................................................892.2.7.2. Authorization management........................................................................................902.2.7.3. Data basis..................................................................................................................902.2.7.4. Data transfer..............................................................................................................902.2.7.5. Data 912.2.7.6. Transport................................................................................................................... 912.2.8. Task Functions on Information System........................................................................912.2.8.1. Reports912.2.8.2. Forms 912.2.8.3. Variables.................................................................................................................... 912.2.8.4. Report data................................................................................................................912.2.8.5. Report portfolio..........................................................................................................912.2.9. Task Functions on Tools..............................................................................................922.2.9.1. Data (Tools)...............................................................................................................922.2.9.2. Information System....................................................................................................922.3. Consolidation................................................................................................................... 922.3.1. Preparatory Work: General...........................................................................................962.3.1.1. Creating Dimensions.................................................................................................962.3.1.2. Creating Versions......................................................................................................962.3.1.3. Check Currencies......................................................................................................962.3.1.4. Definition of Ledgers..................................................................................................962.3.1.5. Definition of Consolidation Units................................................................................972.3.1.6. Definition of Consolidation Groups............................................................................97
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2.3.1.7. Definition of Cons Chart of Accounts / Cons Chart of Accounts Hierarchy................982.3.1.8. Definition of Breakdown Categories..........................................................................992.3.1.9. Definition of Custom Characteristics..........................................................................992.3.1.10. Definition of Subitem Categories.............................................................................992.3.1.11. Definition of Subitems..............................................................................................992.3.2. Preparatory Work: Integration.......................................................................................1002.3.3. Preparatory Work: Production......................................................................................1002.3.3.1. Administration of Authorizations................................................................................1002.3.3.2. Setting up Translation................................................................................................1002.3.4. Processes of the Data Monitor.....................................................................................1002.3.4.1. Non-integrated Financial Data Transfer by Online Entry...........................................1002.3.5. Processes of the Consolidation Monitor.......................................................................1012.3.5.1. Preparation of Consolidation Group Changes...........................................................1012.3.5.2. Interunit Elimination by Elimination of IU Payables and Receivables........................1012.3.5.3. Interunit Elimination by Elimination of IC Revenue and Expense..............................1022.3.5.4. Consolidation of investments.....................................................................................1022.3.6. Information System.......................................................................................................1022.4. Executive Information System (EIS)................................................................................1022.4.1. Data modeling..............................................................................................................1042.4.2. Basic settings...............................................................................................................1052.4.2.1. Foreign currencies.....................................................................................................1052.4.2.2. File names................................................................................................................. 1052.4.3. Data basis..................................................................................................................... 1052.4.3.1. Characteristics...........................................................................................................1052.4.3.2. Basic key figures.......................................................................................................1062.4.3.3. Aspect 1062.4.3.4. Calculated Key Figures.............................................................................................1062.4.3.5. Comment tables........................................................................................................1072.4.3.6. Fixed Characteristics.................................................................................................1072.4.3.7. Summarization levels................................................................................................1072.4.3.8. Currency Translation Types for Data Transfer and Planning Layouts.......................1072.4.3.9. Data Entry Layout......................................................................................................1082.4.3.10. Derivation................................................................................................................1082.4.3.11. Validation.................................................................................................................1082.4.3.12. Data slices...............................................................................................................1082.4.4. Data transfer.................................................................................................................1082.4.4.1. External Systems.......................................................................................................1082.4.4.2. Transaction data........................................................................................................1092.4.4.3. Master data................................................................................................................1092.4.4.4. Comments.................................................................................................................1092.4.4.5. Master Data Hierarchy...............................................................................................1092.4.4.6. Transfer procedure....................................................................................................1092.4.4.7. File 1092.4.4.8. Control Report Portfolio.............................................................................................1102.4.5. Information System (EC-EIS).......................................................................................1102.4.5.1. Maintain Report Selection..........................................................................................1102.4.5.2. Print in MS Word for Windows...................................................................................1102.4.6. Tools............................................................................................................................. 1102.4.6.1. Conversion to Release 4.0........................................................................................1102.4.6.2. Authorization management (EIS)...............................................................................1102.4.6.3. Data basis..................................................................................................................1112.4.6.4. Data transfer..............................................................................................................1112.4.6.5. Data 1112.4.6.6. Transport................................................................................................................... 1112.4.7. Task Functions on Information System........................................................................1122.4.7.1. Reports (EIS).............................................................................................................112
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2.4.7.2. Forms (EIS)...............................................................................................................1122.4.7.3. Variables (EIS)..........................................................................................................1122.4.7.4. Report Data (EIS)......................................................................................................1122.4.7.5. Report Portfolio (EIS)................................................................................................1122.4.8. Task Functions on Tools..............................................................................................1122.4.8.1. Data (Tools)...............................................................................................................1122.4.8.2. Information System....................................................................................................113
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1. Revenue and cost controlling1.1. Overhead Cost Controlling
1.1.1. Cost Element1.1.1.1. Primary Cost Element
Questions:
Q: 1) Define primary cost elements based on the definition of the chart of account.
A:
Q: 2) Reserve a number range in the chart of accounts for the definition of CO-specific accounts/primary cost elements: which additional primary cost elements do you need (such as for accruals)?
A:
1.1.1.2. Secondary Cost Element
Questions:
Q: 1) Define secondary cost elements for planning, allocation and reporting purposes.
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1.1.1.3. Cost Element Group
Questions:
Q: 1) Define cost element groups for planning, allocation, and reporting purposes.
A:
1.1.2. Cost Center1.1.2.1. Cost Center
Questions:
Q: 1) Define cost centers as the lowest level in your organizational structure at which you hold one person responsible for the expenses incurred (check whether you have covered the whole organization).
A:
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1.1.2.2. Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers
Questions:
Q: 1) Take your corporate organizational structure and build a hierarchy according to levels of responsibilities, with cost centers as the lowest level.
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1.1.2.3. Cost Center Group
Questions:
Q: 1) Besides the standard hierarchy, do you need other alternative structure (groups) of cost centers (for planning, allocation, and reporting purposes)?
A:
1.1.3. Activity Type1.1.3.1. Activity Type
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the type of activity performed by each cost center. Do this by defining one or more measurable activity type(s) for each cost center.
A:
Q: 2) Since activity types are posted as secondary cost elements, have you specified the secondary cost elements to which you want to assign the activity type (one-to-one, or one cost element for more than one activity type)?
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1.1.3.2. Activity Type Group
Questions:
Q: 1) Group your activity types into different categories or similar attributes for planning, allocation and reporting purposes.
A:
1.1.4. Statistical Key Figures1.1.4.1. Statistical Key Figures
Questions:
Q: 1) Which statistical key figures do you want to use for allocations and reporting (such as telephone units, headcount, and so on)?
A:
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1.1.4.2. Statistical Key Figure Group
Questions:
Q: 1) Define groups of statistical key figures (such as the group for all headcount statistical figures).
A:
1.1.5. Business Process1.1.5.1. Business Process
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define business processes across different areas of your organization and plan, enter, and allocate overhead costs on the basis of these?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) Define your business processes (such as sales-order processing).
A:
Comments:
1.1.5.2. Standard Hierarchy for Business Processes
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the standard hierarchie of processes for planning, allocating and reporting business process costs.
A:
1.1.5.3. Business Process Group
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you group your business processes alternatively by categories or similar attributes so that you can plan, allocate and report on aggregated levels?
A:
1.1.6. Internal Order
Questions:
Q: 1) What business criteria do you use to classify your internal orders (for example, overhead orders, accrual orders, investment orders, statistical orders, and so on)?
A:
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Q: 2) What are the types of orders that will be used in the controlling area (such as investments, marketing, etc.)?
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Q: 3) Should some of the orders be used for information purposes only - that is, should the real posting be on the cost center?
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1.2. Product Cost Controlling1.2.1. Procurement Alternative
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you working with multiple supply sources (different vendors) or multiple production methods (in-house production and subcontracting) for the same material?
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1.2.2. Cost Component
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the structure of your product cost components (40 cost components max)!
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Q: 2) Which cost components should be part of the product`s standard price?
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Q: 3) Define the calculation method for each cost component.
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Q: 4) Do you require an alternative structure that breaks down the activity and process costs in accordance with their original costs (such as wages, salaries, energy, depreciation)?
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Q: 5) Which cost components should be part of the product's cost of goods manufactured in Profitability Analysis?
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1.2.3. Product Cost Collectors
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are working with period-based controlling, do you want to have one cost collector for each production method or for each material?
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1.2.4. Material Ledger Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to value the material with more than one currency or valuation approach? What are those currencies/approaches?
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Q: 2) Do you want to make subsequent allocations of variances (from purchasing, production) for raw materials and materal produced in-house?
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Q: 3) Do you want to differentiate between procurement alternatives and manufacturing processes for your actual costs?
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1.3. Profitability Analysis1.3.1. Characteristics
1.3.1.1. Characteristic Definition
Questions:
Q: 1) List the dimensions (characteristics) that you want to create contribution margin accounting for, according to your reporting requirements.
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1.3.1.2. Characteristic Values
Questions:
Q: 1) For the characteristics defined in the previous question, specify values (such as, regions: North, west, east, south)
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1.3.1.3. Characteristic Derivation
Questions:
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Q: 1) List the terms (characteristics) that do not have master data, and state how they are dependent on other criteria.
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Q: 2) List the terms (characteristics) that are dependent on each other in a hierarchy.
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1.3.2. Value Fields1.3.2.1. Definition of Value Fields
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the report rows (value fields) that you wish to analyse.
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Q: 2) Are you interested only in the revenues and costs that are directly related to product sales?
A:
Q: 3) Do you also wish to see other product-related overhead costs?
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Q: 4) Do you also wish to see other income or expenditures that are not related to your regular business activity (e.g. product production or sales)?
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Q: 5) Decide which value fields can be posted as reconcilable with FI (true), and which are to be filled with accrual valuations.
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1.3.3. Condition Types1.3.3.1. Definition of Condition Types
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want information on accrued values for your result information, that are not defined as conditions in SD, or do you require user-defined condition types in CO-PA for planning purposes?
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2. Enterprise Controlling2.1. Consolidation
2.1.1. Consolidation Chart of Acounts / FS Item Hierarchy
Questions:
Q: 1) Which requirements do you have for the creation and/or structure of your cons chart of accounts (US GAAP, IAS, HGB)?
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Q: 2) Should retained earnings be disclosed in the balance sheet or in the income statement?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) Should income statements be created using cost-of-sales accounting or period accounting?
A:
Comments:
Q: 4) Do you summarize your operational accounts to group accounts (financial statement items)?
A:Comments:
Q: 5) If yes, do you summarize at the subsidiary level or at the corporate group level?
A:Comments:
Q: 6) Do you require further freely definable classifications for your FS items?
A:
Comments:
Q: 7) Do you use an integration scenario? If so, you can transfer the FS items from a G/L chart of accounts or a financial statement version.
A:
Comments:
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Q: 8) Define your selected items for posting financial statement imbalances and for posting deferred taxes, for both retained earnings carried forward as well as the balancing adjustment.
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Comments:
2.1.2. Breakdown Categories
Questions:
Q: 1) How many breakdown categories can be derived from your reporting system? Which different details would you like to see withing a consolidation chart of accounts?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to differentiate elimination differences between currency-related and other differences?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.1.3. Custom Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need further custom characteristics, in addition to the standard subassignments?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) If yes how many and which characteristics?
A:
Comments:
2.1.4. Subitem Category
Questions:
Q: 1) Which standard subassignments would you like to use? What requirements do you have for group reporting later on, for example, asset history sheets, equity aging reports, segment reports, etc. ?
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2.1.5. Subitem
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to define the subitems?
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Q: 2) Which default values do you want to define for the characteristic value of subitems?
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2.1.6. Sets (Namespace)
Questions:
Q: 1) Define suitable name spaces for the sets you use.
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B. Business processes1. Revenue and cost controlling
1.1. Profit and Cost Planning1.1.1. Sales Planning
1.1.1.1. Create Planning Proposal (with Sales Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to structure your sales planning based on reference data? If so, what is the source and form of this data?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want to adapt the reference dates to be used as a planning proposal?
A:
Q: 3) Do you use forecasting techniques in your planning process? If so, describe them.
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1.1.1.2. Manual Sales Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Which level of the hierarchy do you want to use for planning (for example, product, product group, customer, sales organization)?
A:
1.1.1.3. Transfer of Planned Sales Quantities
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan sales quantities from CO-PA to LIS?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to transfer planned sales quantities from CO-PA to Production Planning?
A:
1.1.2. Cost and Activity Planning1.1.2.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
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Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the planned values of the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
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1.1.2.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
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Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the actual values of the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
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1.1.2.3. Redefinition of Plan Version
Questions:
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Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
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Q: 2) Do you want to represent different planning scenarios in parallel?
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1.1.2.4. Planning Revaluation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you carry out revaluation (increases or decreases for certain cost elements in certain cost centers)?
A:
1.1.2.5. Budget Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Does your organization use the type of budgeting described in the documentation field?
A:
1.1.2.6. Order Budgeting
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan and control the budget of the order using availability checks?
A:
1.1.2.7. Activity Type Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on activity type planning
A:
1.1.2.8. Definition of Activity Type for Cost Center
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on defining activity types by cost center
A:
1.1.2.9. Transfer of Statistical Key Figures from LIS (Plan)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Are statistical key figures kept in the logistics modules, which you want to use as a basis for allocations and reporting purposes?
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1.1.2.10. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Independent)
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
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1.1.2.11. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Dependent)
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
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1.1.2.12. Transfer of Personnel Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Human Resources, do you want to transfer the results of personnel cost planningto Controlling (CO) as part of your planning for personnel expenses?
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1.1.2.13. Transfer of Scheduled Activity PP -> CO-ABC
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are implementing SAP R/3 manufacturing modules, do you want to transfer activity requirements from sales & operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP to Controlling (CO-ABC) as scheduled activities?
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1.1.2.14. Transfer of Scheduled Activity from PP to CO-OM-CCA
Questions:
Q: 1) If you implementing the SAP R/3 production modules, do you want to transfer the activity requirements from sales and operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP to Controlling (CO-CCA) as the scheduled production activities?
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1.1.2.15. Primary Cost Planning (Full Costs)
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Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
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1.1.2.16. Primary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
A:
1.1.2.17. Secondary Cost Planning (Full Costs)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to represent activity relationships between cost centers in your planning?
A:
1.1.2.18. Secondary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to represent activity relationships between cost centers in your planning?
A:
1.1.2.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use integrated internal orders in cost center planning (such as repair orders, marketing orders) and settle them to cost centers after planning at the cost element level?
A:
1.1.2.20. Cost Element Planning (Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan costs at the cost element level on overhead cost orders?
A:
1.1.2.21. Overall Planning (Order)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you want to plan overall costs (values only, independent of cost elements) on overhead cost orders?
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1.1.2.22. Unit Costing (Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to enter planning data in your planning for overhead cost orders, as well as the cost element information?
A:
1.1.2.23. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you periodically move costs from a project/cost center (such as telephone costs) to other projects/cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
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1.1.2.24. Cost Accrual - Plan
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe how accruals are planned for actual data.
A:
1.1.2.25. Process Cost Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) State how you want to transfer the plan values from Cost Center Accounting to your business processes.
A:
1.1.2.26. Overhead Calculation (Cost Center)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan to allocate a certain type of costs/expenses to cost centers automatically using overhead rates?
A:
1.1.2.27. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)
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Questions:
Q: 1) What costs is the cost estimate based on when you compute overhead for internal orders?
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Q: 2) Specify the overhead rates.
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Q: 3) Will you perform automatic recovery of overheads on specific types of costs/expenses?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 4) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Comments:
Q: 5) For each assignment type, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or based on the actual total costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 6) Describe in detail how each of these assignments is performed today in your organization.
A:
Comments:
Q: 7) What postings do the assignments create?
A:
Comments:
Q: 8) Describe in detail how each of these allocations is performed today in your organization.
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Comments:
Q: 9) Do you assign overhead expenses to projects?
A:
Comments:
Q: 10) For each allocation category, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or based on the actual total costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 11) If you use fixed percentages for assignments, how do you handle remaining variances?
A:
Comments:
Q: 12) For each of these assignments, what causes the overhead (for example, direct labor expense, labor hours, total WBS expense, others)?
A:
Comments:
Q: 13) What postings do the assignments create?
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Comments:
Q: 14) Define overhead rates.
A:
Comments:
Q: 15) Will you perform automatic recovery of overheads on specific types of costs/expenses?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
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Comments:
Q: 16) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A:
Comments:
Q: 17) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Comments:
Q: 18) Do you want to add a percentage for overhead to the production cost collector?
A:
Comments:
Q: 19) Define overhead rates.
A:
Comments:
Q: 20) Do you perform automatic overhead allocation for specific types of costs/expenses?
A:
Comments:
Q: 21) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Comments:
Q: 22) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Comments:
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Q: 23) Do you plan to allocate a certain type of costs/expenses to cost centers automatically using overhead rates?
A:
Comments:
Q: 24) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
Comments:
Q: 25) Are there any overhead expenses that are not calculated with reference to the production order but are to be assigned directly to the sales order?
A:
Comments:
Q: 26) How often do you calculate your planned overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 27) Who is responsible for reconciling the run? (This person will be responsible for running/monitoring planned overhead.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 28) Do you calculate overhead for all objects at once or individually for each object. (Detailed calculation can affect system performance.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 29) Do you have a specific plan version when you calculate overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 30) Is overhead calculated for your projects?
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Comments:
Q: 31) Is the planned overhead the same as the actual overhead?
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Comments:
Q: 32) Describe how you calculate overhead for (1) direct costs (2) indirect costs (3) fixed costs (4) variable costs).
A:
Comments:
Q: 33) Do you include sales and marketing and general and administrative costs in your overhead calculation?
A:
Comments:
Q: 34) Do you reconcile planned and actual overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 35) Do you process actual overhead on a project by project basis or overall?
A:
Comments:
Q: 36) Do you have project-type-specific overhead calculations?
A:
Comments:
Q: 37) Do you have different overhead costs for each business unit?
A:
Comments:
Q: 38) Do you calculate overhead on materials/labor?
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Comments:
Q: 39) At what level of detail do you plan for overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 40) Do you calculate percentage overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 41) Is the calculation dependent on time periods?
A:
Comments:
Q: 42) What is the basis for the overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 43) Is the basis for overhead planned costs the same as the basis for actual overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 44) What is the formula/schema for applying overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 45) How often do you calculate overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 46) To which accounts/cost elements are the overhead costs posted?
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Comments:
Q: 47) Does the basis for the overhead costs change during the lifecycle of the project?
A:
Comments:
Q: 48) Who is responsible for overhead costs? (This person is responsible for running the overhead calculation.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 49) Do you evaluate interest charges throughout the project hierarchy?
A:
Comments:
1.1.2.28. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Q: 2) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Q: 3) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
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1.1.2.29. Plan Cost Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to distribute costs from a cost center or a cost center group to CO objects (cost center, orders, WBS element), and keep the orginal cost element from the sender in the receiver object?
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Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
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1.1.2.30. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you collect costs/expenses on an internal order that you want represented on a cost center?
A:
Q: 2) If so, do you want to be able to see the costs of the cost center (settlement under the original cost element)?
A:
Q: 3) Or do you want to summarize/aggregate the costs on the cost center (using one or more secondary settlement cost elements)?
A:
1.1.2.31. Plan Cost Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you allocation costs from one cost cente / group from cost centers to other CO objects (cost centers, orders, WBS elements) by summarizing the original cost elements from the sender cost center(s) into one secondary assessement cost element?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
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1.1.2.32. Plan Reconciliation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to reconcile the demand for scheduled labour hours (activity types) with the available capacity?
A:
1.1.2.33. Splitting
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have cases/situations where a cost element in cost center planning is related to more than one activity (activity type)? If so, see to it that the activity-independent planned costs are split to the activity types before you calculate the prices.
A:
Q: 2) Define rules for the split.
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1.1.2.34. Planned Price Calculation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to calculate the planned price automatically or iteratively by dividing the planned costs for a cost center/activity type by the planned activity quantities (or capacities)?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to calculate planned prices automatically/iteratively for Activity-Based Costing by dividing the costs planned for the business process by the planned process quantity?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to display partial cost rates (primary cost split) for the planned prices that were calculated automatically/iteratively?
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1.1.3. Standard Cost Estimate
Questions:
Q: 1) What types of costing do you want to use (adjusted standard, monthly, inventory, and so on)?
A:
1.1.3.1. Preparation for Costing
Questions:
Q: 1) Did you check if all the source data from other modules is available for calculating the production costs?
A:
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Q: 2) Which prices will you use for materials, internal activities, external activities, and subcontracting?
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Q: 3) How do you want to allocate overhead in costing: using overhead rates or activity-based costing, or both?
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1.1.3.2. Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan your product costs using bills of material (BOM), routings, or dependencies?
A:
Q: 2) Do you plan the costs for externally procured materials using purchasing info records?
A:
Q: 3) Do you subcontract any of your manufacturing activities?
A:
Q: 4) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant?
A:
Q: 5) Do you want to analyze CGM broken down according to the organizational units involved in the value-added process?
A:
Q: 6) Do you plan product costs centrally or independently by plant?
A:
Q: 7) Do you need to plan costs in multiple currencies?
A:
Q: 8) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs?
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Q: 9) If you are using mixed costing, what proportions of the individual procurement alternatives/manufacturing processes should be used as a basis for costing?
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1.1.3.3. Standard Cost Estimate Without Quantity Structure
Questions:
Q: 1) Since you are calculating your product costs without access to SAP quantity structure data, where are you getting the quantity information required for costing?
A:
Q: 2) Do you subcontract any of your manufacturing activities?
A:
Q: 3) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want to analyze CGM broken down according to the organizational units involved in the value-added process?
A:
Q: 5) Do you plan product costs centrally or independently by plant?
A:
Q: 6) Do you need to plan costs in multiple currencies?
A:
Q: 7) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs?
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1.1.3.4. Standard Cost Estimate for Co-Products
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have production processes that ever yield multiple products?
A:
Q: 2) What rules are used to apportion the costs to the co-products?
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1.1.3.5. Price Release with Standard Cost Estimate
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to update your standard product costs as the standard prices in MM (with stock revaluation)?
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Q: 2) Do you want to update your product costs calculate using other cost estimates as planned prices, commercial prices, and so on in MM (without stock revaluation)?
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1.1.4. Profit Center Planning1.1.4.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's plan values? If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
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1.1.4.2. Copy Actual Costs to Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's actual values? If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
A:
1.1.4.3. Excel Upload -> Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
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Q: 2) Is your plan data available on an external medium?
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1.1.4.4. Redefinition of Plan Version (Profit Center Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to represent different planning scenarios in parallel?
A:
Q: 3) Which plan versions should be transferred (integrated) from other applications?
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1.1.4.5. Plan Integration of Profit Centers
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan data to PCA from other applications? From which application(s)?
A:Comments:
1.1.4.6. Manual Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your process for manual profit center planning.
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1.1.4.7. Plan Profit Center Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you carry out distributions from one profit center to another profit center (which possibly belongs to another company code) within the same controlling area?
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1.1.4.8. Plan Profit Center Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you assess values from one profit center to another within a controlling area when the profit centers are not assigned to the same company code?
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1.1.5. Profit Planning1.1.5.1. Valuation of Sales Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use cost of goods manufactured for valuation of your sales quantities?
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Q: 2) Do you want to calculate revenues and sales deductions using price determination in SD, or conditions in CO-PA?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to valuate your sales quantities using average values (rates) from the past?
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1.1.5.2. Creation of Planning Proposal (Without Sales Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to structure your sales planning based on reference data? If so, what is the source and form of this data?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want to adapt the reference dates to be used as a planning proposal?
A:
Q: 3) Do you use forecasting techniques in your planning process? If so, describe them.
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1.1.5.3. Manual Profit Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Which level of the hierarchy do you want to use for planning (for example, product, product group, customer, sales organization)?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want the planning screens to look?
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1.1.5.4. Planned Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the plan process costs to profitability analysis? ales, and development costs)?
A:
Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you require for transferring the planned process costs to profitability analysis?
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1.1.5.5. Planned Allocation Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the planned cost center costs to profitability analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you reqiure for transferring planned cost center costs to profitability analysis?
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1.1.5.6. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the order planning to profitability analysis?
A:
1.1.5.7. Project Settlement
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the projects to profitability analysis?
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1.2. Actual Cost/Revenue Allocation1.2.1. Overhead Allocation
1.2.1.1. Direct Activity Assignment Using Time Sheet Processing
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you base direct activity allocation to CO objects on this data?
A:
Q: 2) How do employees record their working time (time, detail, medium/system)?
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1.2.1.2. Time Sheet Permit
Questions:
Q: 1) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for your employees.
A:
Q: 2) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?
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1.2.1.3. Transfer Time Sheet Data to CO
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time sheet?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?
A:
Comments:
Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization, employee hours by cost center)?
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A:
Comments:
1.2.1.4. Time Sheet Report
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to see days that have not timesheet entries?
A:
Q: 2) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than a defined number of hours?
A:
Q: 3) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving component?
A:
Q: 4) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create report variants.)
A:
1.2.1.5. Direct Activity Allocation (Controlling)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to allocate costs manually from a sender cost center to a receiver (internal order, cost center, and so on) by valuating the added quantity with a price?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) Describe your direct activity allocation processes.
A:
Comments:
1.2.1.6. Transfer of Primary Costs to Cost Center/Order
Questions:
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Q: 1) Create a matrix that contains the primary cost elements derived from the chart of accounts in the rows, and assign these to the possible account assignment objects (cost center, order).
A:
1.2.1.7. Manual Funds Reservation
Questions:
Q: 1) For your organization, do you want to display manual funds reservation (manual commitments) for expected expenses, where you cannot yet foresee how they are incurred?
A:
1.2.1.8. Manual Funds Reduction
Questions:
Q: 1) When you use manual funds reservation, describe the reduction process for the manual commitment.
A:
1.2.1.9. Manual Cost Allocation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to allocate certain (primary and/or secondary) cost elements manually, without using the usual tools for distribution, assessment, or activity allocation?
A:
1.2.2. Product Cost Allocation1.2.2.1. Simultaneous Costing
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on simultaneous costing
A:
1.2.3. Profit Center Allocation1.2.3.1. Document Entry in the Profit Center Invoice
Questions:
Q: 1) In Profit Center Accounting, do you want to enter other data which is not transferred by the integration of EC-PCA?
A:
1.2.3.2. Actual Transfer of Additional Balance Sheet Items to EC-PCA
Questions:
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Q: 1) Besides the balance sheet items transferred at period end, (see period end closing Profit Center Accounting) do you wish to transfer other B/S items transaction-based? If yes, which ones?
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1.2.3.3. Manual Entry of Statistical Key Figures
Questions:
Q: 1) In Profit Center Accounting, do you want to enter other statistical key figures which are not transferred by the integration of EC-PCA?
A:
1.2.4. Cost and Revenue Allocation to Profitability Analysis1.2.4.1. Transfer and Valuation of Incoming Sales Orders
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the sales order receipt to profitability analysis? Which period do you want to show the sales order result in?
A:
Q: 2) Which report rows (value fields) are to be assigned to the sales order conditions?
A:
Q: 3) Which values are to be used in valuation in addition to the conditions in SD?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want the update to Profitability Analysis of both the sales deductions and the cost component split for cost of goods manufactured to be transaction-based?
A:
1.2.4.2. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Direct Sale)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which report rows (value fields) should the conditions in the billing documents be assigned to?
A:
Q: 2) Which values are to be used in valuation in addition to the conditions in SD?
A:
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Q: 3) Do you want the update to Profitability Analysis of both the sales deductions and the cost component split for cost of goods manufactured to be transaction-based?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want to compare the accrued values in CO-PA against the actual values?
A:
1.2.4.3. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Third-Party Transaction)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which report rows (value fields) should the conditions in the billing documents be assigned to?
A:
Q: 2) Which values are to be used in valuation in addition to the conditions in SD?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want the update to Profitability Analysis of both the sales deductions and the cost component split for cost of goods manufactured to be transaction-based?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want to compare the accrued values in CO-PA against the actual values?
A:
Q: 5) Comments
A:
1.2.4.4. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Intercompany Processing)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which report rows (value fields) should the conditions in the billing documents be assigned to?
A:
Q: 2) Which values are to be used in valuation in addition to the conditions in SD?
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1.2.4.5. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Complaints Processing)
Questions:
Q: 1) How should credit memos, returns, and free deliveries be shown in Profitability Analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Which report rows (value fields) should the conditions in the billing documents be assigned to?
A:
Q: 3) Which values are to be used in valuation in addition to the conditions in SD?
A:
1.2.4.6. Transfer of Customer Agreements to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer customer arrangements to Profitability Analysis as passive budget checks?
A:
1.2.4.7. Direct Posting of Special Direct Costs and Revenues
Questions:
Q: 1) Do all your revenue and sales deduction postings come in from the Sales and Distribution component, or are there additional postings to those categories that originate in the General Ledger?
A:
Q: 2) At which level (characteristics) do you want to post those entries to Profitability Analysis? Which cost elements should be transferred to which value fields?
A:
1.2.4.8. Automatic Additional Transfer into Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do all your revenue and sales deduction postings come in from the Sales and Distribution component, or are there additional postings to those categories that originate in the General Ledger?
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Q: 2) At which level (characteristics) do you want to post those entries to Profitability Analysis? Which cost elements should be transferred to which value fields?
A:
Q: 3) Create a matrix that contains the primary cost and revenue elements derived from the chart of accounts in the rows, and assign these to the possible account assignment objects (combinations of characteristics in CO-PA).
A:
Q: 4) Decide which automatic postings from FI or MM should be transferred into Profitability Analysis automatically.
A:
1.3. Period-End Closing (Controlling)1.3.1. Period-End Closing in Overhead Cost Controlling
1.3.1.1. Actual Periodic Reposting
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you periodically move costs from a project/cost center (such as telephone costs) to other projects/cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
1.3.1.2. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Target = Actual Method)
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe how accruals are planned for actual data.
A:
1.3.1.3. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Percentage Method)
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe how accruals are planned for actual data.
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1.3.1.4. Actual Cost Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to distribute costs from a cost center or a cost center group to CO objects (cost center, orders, WBS element), and keep the orginal cost element from the sender in the receiver object?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
1.3.1.5. Entry of Sender Activities
Questions:
Q: 1) When you use indirect activity allocation (manual entry), are you able to measure and post the activities on the sender cost center that are to be allocated?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
1.3.1.6. Target=Actual Activity Allocation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to have the system automatically calculate the actual activity input of primary cost centers (receivers) from secondary cost centers (senders) on the basis of the operating level and the planned activity input of the receiver cost center?
A:
1.3.1.7. Template Allocation (Overhead Cost Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to overhead cost orders?
A:
Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A:
1.3.1.8. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
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Q: 2) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Q: 3) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
1.3.1.9. Settlement of Overhead Orders (Actual Data)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which order types should be settled?
A:
Q: 2) To which receivers, at which rates (percentage, amount, or equivalence number) and under which cost elements (original cost element or settlement cost element) should settlement be made?
A:
1.3.1.10. Settlement of Accrual Orders
Questions:
Q: 1) Which order types should be settled?
A:
Q: 2) To which receivers, at which rates (percentage, amount, or equivalence number) and under which cost elements (original cost element or settlement cost element) should settlement be made?
A:
1.3.1.11. Actual Cost Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you allocation costs from one cost cente / group from cost centers to other CO objects (cost centers, orders, WBS elements) by summarizing the original cost elements from the sender cost center(s) into one secondary assessement cost element?
A:
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Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
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1.3.1.12. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)
Questions:
Q: 1) What costs is the cost estimate based on when you compute overhead for internal orders?
A:
Q: 2) Specify the overhead rates.
A:
Q: 3) Will you perform automatic recovery of overheads on specific types of costs/expenses?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 4) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Comments:
Q: 5) For each assignment type, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or based on the actual total costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 6) Describe in detail how each of these assignments is performed today in your organization.
A:
Comments:
Q: 7) What postings do the assignments create?
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A:
Comments:
Q: 8) Describe in detail how each of these allocations is performed today in your organization.
A:
Comments:
Q: 9) Do you assign overhead expenses to projects?
A:
Comments:
Q: 10) For each allocation category, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or based on the actual total costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 11) If you use fixed percentages for assignments, how do you handle remaining variances?
A:
Comments:
Q: 12) For each of these assignments, what causes the overhead (for example, direct labor expense, labor hours, total WBS expense, others)?
A:
Comments:
Q: 13) What postings do the assignments create?
A:
Comments:
Q: 14) Define overhead rates.
A:
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Comments:
Q: 15) Will you perform automatic recovery of overheads on specific types of costs/expenses?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 16) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A:
Comments:
Q: 17) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Comments:
Q: 18) Do you want to add a percentage for overhead to the production cost collector?
A:
Comments:
Q: 19) Define overhead rates.
A:
Comments:
Q: 20) Do you perform automatic overhead allocation for specific types of costs/expenses?
A:
Comments:
Q: 21) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 22) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Comments:
Q: 23) Do you plan to allocate a certain type of costs/expenses to cost centers automatically using overhead rates?
A:
Comments:
Q: 24) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
Comments:
Q: 25) Are there any overhead expenses that are not calculated with reference to the production order but are to be assigned directly to the sales order?
A:
Comments:
Q: 26) How often do you calculate your planned overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 27) Who is responsible for reconciling the run? (This person will be responsible for running/monitoring planned overhead.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 28) Do you calculate overhead for all objects at once or individually for each object. (Detailed calculation can affect system performance.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 29) Do you have a specific plan version when you calculate overhead?
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Comments:
Q: 30) Is overhead calculated for your projects?
A:
Comments:
Q: 31) Is the planned overhead the same as the actual overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 32) Describe how you calculate overhead for (1) direct costs (2) indirect costs (3) fixed costs (4) variable costs).
A:
Comments:
Q: 33) Do you include sales and marketing and general and administrative costs in your overhead calculation?
A:
Comments:
Q: 34) Do you reconcile planned and actual overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 35) Do you process actual overhead on a project by project basis or overall?
A:
Comments:
Q: 36) Do you have project-type-specific overhead calculations?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 37) Do you have different overhead costs for each business unit?
A:
Comments:
Q: 38) Do you calculate overhead on materials/labor?
A:
Comments:
Q: 39) At what level of detail do you plan for overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 40) Do you calculate percentage overhead?
A:
Comments:
Q: 41) Is the calculation dependent on time periods?
A:
Comments:
Q: 42) What is the basis for the overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 43) Is the basis for overhead planned costs the same as the basis for actual overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 44) What is the formula/schema for applying overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 45) How often do you calculate overhead costs?
A:
Comments:
Q: 46) To which accounts/cost elements are the overhead costs posted?
A:
Comments:
Q: 47) Does the basis for the overhead costs change during the lifecycle of the project?
A:
Comments:
Q: 48) Who is responsible for overhead costs? (This person is responsible for running the overhead calculation.)
A:
Comments:
Q: 49) Do you evaluate interest charges throughout the project hierarchy?
A:
Comments:
1.3.1.13. Variance Calculation for Overhead
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to display cost center variances by variance category?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to allocate cost center variances subsequently to other cost centers/cost objects (using subsequent valaution with actual prices) or post them to Profitability Analysis?
A:
1.3.1.14. Predistribution of Fixed Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to predistribute fixed costs independent of the receiving cost center’s actual usage of resources?
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1.3.1.15. Splitting
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on splitting
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
1.3.1.16. Actual Price Calculation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to calculate actual prices for Cost Center Accounting and / or Activity-Based Costing on an automatic or iterative basis?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to represent actual prices as periodic, average, or aggregated prices?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to set actual prices manually?
A:
1.3.1.17. Revaluation at Actual Prices
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to organize subsequent valuation? (see documentation)
A:
1.3.1.18. Reconciliation Financial Accounting/Controlling
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to allocate costs from one cost center/order of a company code to another cost center/order of another company code and represent this as an intercompany transaction in FI?
A:
1.3.1.19. Business Process Analysis
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Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical business process reports.
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1.3.1.20. Cost Center Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical cost center reports.
A:
1.3.1.21. Analysis of Overhead Orders
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe the critical factors for order analysis, such as plan/budget vs. actual analysis, order group analysis, or detailed line item analysis.
A:
1.3.2. Period-End Closing for Product Cost Controlling1.3.2.1. Template Allocation (Manufacturing Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a production order?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A:
Comments:
1.3.2.2. Template Allocation (Product Cost Collector)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a product cost collector?
A:
Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
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1.3.2.3. Template Allocation (Cost Object)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a cost object?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A:
Comments:
1.3.2.4. Template Allocation (Sales Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a sales order?
A:
Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A:
1.3.2.5. Revaluation at Actual Prices
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to organize subsequent valuation? (see documentation)
A:
1.3.2.6. Actual Cost Distribution - Product Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use the calculated target order costs as the basis for the distribution within the cost object hierarchy?
A:
1.3.2.7. Overhead Calculation (Sales Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Are there any overhead expenses that are not calculated with reference to the production order but are to be assigned directly to the sales order?
A:
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1.3.2.8. Overhead Calculation (Manufacturing Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Q: 2) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Q: 3) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
1.3.2.9. Overhead Calculation (Product Cost Collector)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Q: 2) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Q: 3) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
1.3.2.10. Overhead Calculation (Cost Object)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A:
Q: 2) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
1.3.2.11. Distribution of Order Costs to Order Items
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have production processes that ever yield multiple products?
A:
Q: 2) What rules are used to apportion the costs to the co-products?
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1.3.2.12. WIP Calculation Based On Actual Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you calculate WIP?
A:Comments:
Q: 2) Determine the level of detail and the cost breakdown that you want for your WIP.
A:
Comments:
1.3.2.13. WIP Calculation Based on Target Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to calculate the target costs for the subsequent WIP calculation?
A:
1.3.2.14. Variance Calculation Cumulated
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to display the production variances by variance category?
A:Comments:
Q: 2) Do you want to calculate scrap? If so, specify how.
A:
Comments:
Q: 3) Which cost estimates do you want to use as the basis for determining variances?
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Comments:
1.3.2.15. Periodic Variance Calculation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to display the production variances by variance category?
A:Comments:
Q: 2) Do you want to calculate scrap? If so, specify how.
A:
Comments:
Q: 3) How do you calculate the target costs for the valuation of scrap?
A:
Comments:
1.3.2.16. Settlement of Manufacturing Order to Sales Order
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want all of the original cost elements for the production order to be transferred to the sales order?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to summarize the costs using a secondary settlement cost element?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
1.3.2.17. Settlement of Manufacturing Order to Inventory
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to see your production variances in Profitability Analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Note on transferring the price differences to FI or updating the factory activity to production orders:
A:
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1.3.2.18. Settlement of Product Cost Collector
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to see your production variances in Profitability Analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Note on transferring the price differences to FI or updating the factory activity to production orders:
A:
1.3.2.19. Settlement of Cost Object Hierarchy
Questions:
Q: 1) What account do you want to assign variances for your cost object hierarchy to?
A:
1.3.2.20. Results Analysis for Sales Orders
Questions:
Q: 1) Results analysis calculates costs of goods sold, work in process (WIP), goods in transit and reserves. How do you want to calculate these values?
A:Comments:
Q: 2) Define the level of detail and cost breakdown that you require for your cost of goods sold, work in process (WIP), goods in transit and reserves.
A:
Comments:
1.3.2.21. Sales Order Settlement
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are using results analysis, how much cost and revenue detail would you like to see in Profitability Analysis?
A:
Q: 2) If you are working with results analysis, what accounts would you like to post WIP and reserves to?
A:
1.3.2.22. Price Update in Actual Costing
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the period price to the material master and use it to revaluate inventory for the closed period?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
1.3.2.23. Data Collection for Product Drilldown
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to summarize product costs?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want to group your materials for the summarized analysis?
A:
Q: 3) Is this grouping and its requirements regarding product groups and material groups identical in Logistics?
A:
1.3.2.24. Product Cost Analysis in Product Cost by Order
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical product cost reports.
A:
1.3.2.25. Product Cost Analysis in Product Cost by Period
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical product cost reports.
A:
1.3.2.26. Product Cost Analysis for Co-Products
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical product cost reports.
A:
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1.3.3. Period-End Closing for Profit Center Accounting1.3.3.1. Actual Profit Center Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to distribute revenues, gains and balance sheet accounts from the profit centers to other profit centers for the end of period, and simultaneously pass on the sender cost center or the balance sheet account to the receiver profit center?
A:
Q: 2) What is the basis for allocating these values?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) Do you carry out distributions from one profit center to another profit center (which possibly belongs to another company code) within the same controlling area?
A:
Comments:
1.3.3.2. Actual Profit Center Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to distribute revenues, gains and balance sheet accounts from the profit centers to other profit centers for the end of period, and simultaneously pass on the sender cost center or the balance sheet account to the receiver profit center?
A:
Q: 2) What is the basis for allocating these values?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) Do you assess values from one profit center to another within a controlling area when the profit centers are not assigned to the same company code?
A:
Comments:
1.3.4. Period-End Closing for Profitability Analysis1.3.4.1. Settlement of Sales Orders
Questions:
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Q: 1) If your company is using the scenario of make-to-order production with product costing by sales order, assign the cost elements charged to the sales orders to the relevant report lines (value fields).
A:
Q: 2) If you are using results analysis, how much cost and revenue detail would you like to see in Profitability Analysis?
A:
Q: 3) If you are working with results analysis, what accounts would you like to post WIP and reserves to?
A:
1.3.4.2. Settlement of Production Variances
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer production variances to profitability analysis?
A:
Q: 2) In which value fields is each variance category to be updated?
A:
1.3.4.3. Settlement of Overhead Orders (Actual Data)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer overhead cost orders to profitability analysis?
A:
1.3.4.4. Project Settlement
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the projects to profitability analysis?
A:
1.3.4.5. Actual Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the posted process costs to profitability analysis?
A:
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Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you require for transferring the planned process costs to profitability analysis?
A:
1.3.4.6. Actual Allocation of Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the posted cost center costs to profitability analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you reqiure for transferring planned cost center costs to profitability analysis?
A:
1.3.4.7. Actual Top-Down Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) If you follow a top-down planning approach, what is the lowest level at which you want so see your profitability/plan data?
A:
Q: 2) Which values (revenues, etc.) do you want to distribute?
A:
1.3.4.8. Analysis of Results and Contribution Margins
Questions:
Q: 1) Determine the structure of the contribution margin scheme you want to report on in CO-PA.
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Q: 2) What are the calculated ratios?
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Q: 3) Determine the hierarchical structures of the market segments you want to drill down to in reporting.
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2. Enterprise Controlling2.1. Operational business planning
2.1.1. Sales Planning2.1.1.1. Create Planning Proposal (with Sales Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to structure your sales planning based on reference data? If so, what is the source and form of this data?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want to adapt the reference dates to be used as a planning proposal?
A:
Q: 3) Do you use forecasting techniques in your planning process? If so, describe them.
A:
2.1.1.2. Manual Sales Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Which level of the hierarchy do you want to use for planning (for example, product, product group, customer, sales organization)?
A:
Q: 2) If you follow a top-down planning approach, what is the lowest level at which you want to see your profitability/plan data?
A:
Q: 3) Which values (such as the quantity sold) do you want to distribute?
A:
2.1.1.3. Transfer of Planned Sales Quantities
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan sales quantities from CO-PA to LIS?
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Q: 2) Do you want to transfer planned sales quantities from CO-PA to Production Planning?
A:
2.1.2. Master planning2.1.2.1. Forecast
Questions:
Q: 1) Which articles should be included in the forecast?
A:
Q: 2) Do you stock seasonal merchandise?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 3) How do you handle promotion consumption in the forecast?
A:Comments:
Q: 4) On which level do you maintain historical data (day/week/month)?
A:
Comments:
Q: 5) How do you want to execute the forecast?
A:Comments:
Q: 6) What do you want to determine from the forecast?
A:Comments:
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Q: 7) How do you forecast new articles?
A:Comments:
Q: 8) Will you establish material forecasts (for example, weekly, monthly, yearly) for your stock materials?
A:
Comments:
Q: 9) Who processes the error messages for the forecast at your company?
A:
Comments:
2.1.2.2. Standard SOP
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to carry out medium to long-term planning of sales and production quantities for your finished products?
A:
Q: 2) At what level do you want to carry out sales and operations planning?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) At what intervals do you want to carry out sales and operations planning?
A:
Comments:
Q: 4) Which sources are used in determining sales quantities?
A:Comments:
Q: 5) Is capacity availability checked at this planning level?
A:
Comments:
2.1.2.3. Transfer of Results to Demand Management
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Questions:
Q: 1) How often are the results of Sales and Operations Planning transferred to Demand Management, and how is this defined?
A:
Q: 2) Which strategies are used in the transfer of SOP results to Demand Management?
A:
2.1.2.4. Demand management
Questions:
Q: 1) Which planning strategies do you use to plan production quantities and dates?
A:Comments:
Q: 2) How do you create your planned independent requirements?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) Do you want to administer planned independent requirements in different versions?
A:
Comments:
Q: 4) At which level do you want to maintain planned independent requirements?
A:Comments:
Q: 5) Do you also want to create customer requirements in demand management transactions (in case, for example, the SD module is not used)?
A:
Comments:
2.1.2.5. Planning Scenario Processing
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you specify scenario description, time frame, and plant for long term lot size production?
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Q: 2) Will you carry out scenario comparisons with other scenarios including the active version?
A:
Q: 3) What business process will you use to update the operative version?
A:
2.1.2.6. Master Production Scheduling - Total Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Should materials that affect the value added, or that use up critical resources, be planned separately and not include planning of the dependent components?
A:
Q: 2) Should enterprise areas/organizational units (storage location, for example) within a plant be planned separately (MRP area)?
A:
Q: 3) In which time intervals are planning runs carried out?
A:
Q: 4) Should planning runs be carried out online or as background jobs?
A:
Q: 5) Is a trace on all receipts/withdrawals and stocks for sales orders required, that is, is only the finished product made-to-order or the dependent components as well?
A:
Q: 6) Should planning be excluded from automatic changes in a specified period of time?
A:
Q: 7) Which MRP procedure is used to plan the material requirements (MRP type)?
A:Comments:
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Q: 8) Should a planning time fence be used with material requirements planning? How should purchase requisitions be treated in this case?
A:
Comments:
Q: 9) Which scope should the planning run have, that is, which type of planning run is required?
A:Comments:
Q: 10) How is the demand for externally procured materials met?
A:Comments:
Q: 11) Should only the basic dates be determined for the newly created planned orders or should an additional lead time scheduling be carried out, which also determines the capacity requirements.
A:Comments:
Q: 12) Which procedure are you using for lot-size calculation?
A:Comments:
Q: 13) Is it necessary to represent planned orders as collective orders for the purpose of common scheduling?
A:
Comments:
Q: 14) Are MRP lists required?
A:
Comments:
2.1.2.7. Master Production Scheduling - Evaluation
Questions:
Q: 1) Who is responsible for checking the results of requirements planning at your company?
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2.1.2.8. Overall Material Requirements Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Should enterprise areas/organizational units (storage location, for example) within a plant be planned separately (MRP area)?
A:
Q: 2) In which time intervals are planning runs carried out?
A:
Q: 3) Should planning runs be carried out online or as background jobs?
A:
Q: 4) Is a trace on all receipts/withdrawals and stocks for sales orders required, that is, is only the finished product made-to-order or the dependent components as well?
A:
Q: 5) Should planning be excluded from automatic changes in a specified period of time?
A:
Q: 6) Which MRP procedure is used to plan the material requirements (MRP type)?
A:Comments:
Q: 7) Should a planning time fence be used with material requirements planning? How should purchase requisitions be treated in this case?
A:
Comments:
Q: 8) Which scope should the planning run have, that is, which type of planning run is required?
A:Comments:
Q: 9) How is the demand for externally procured materials met?
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A:Comments:
Q: 10) Should only the basic dates be determined for the newly created planned orders or should an additional lead time scheduling be carried out, which also determines the capacity requirements.
A:Comments:
Q: 11) Which procedure are you using for lot-size calculation?
A:Comments:
Q: 12) Is it necessary to represent planned orders as collective orders for the purpose of common scheduling?
A:
Comments:
Q: 13) Are MRP lists required?
A:
Comments:
2.1.2.9. Material requirements planning - evaluation
Questions:
Q: 1) Who is responsible for checking the results of requirements planning at your company?
A:
2.1.3. Cost and Activity Planning2.1.3.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the planned values of the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
A:
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2.1.3.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the actual values of the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
A:
2.1.3.3. Redefinition of Plan Version
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning process. How do you plan cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to represent different planning scenarios in parallel?
A:
2.1.3.4. Planning Revaluation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you carry out revaluation (increases or decreases for certain cost elements in certain cost centers)?
A:
2.1.3.5. Budget Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Does your organization use the type of budgeting described in the documentation field?
A:
2.1.3.6. Order Budgeting
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan and control the budget of the order using availability checks?
A:
2.1.3.7. Activity Type Planning
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Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on activity type planning
A:
2.1.3.8. Definition of Activity Type for Cost Center
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on defining activity types by cost center
A:
2.1.3.9. Transfer of Statistical Key Figures from LIS (Plan)
Questions:
Q: 1) Are statistical key figures kept in the logistics modules, which you want to use as a basis for allocations and reporting purposes?
A:
2.1.3.10. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Independent)
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
A:
2.1.3.11. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Dependent)
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
A:
2.1.3.12. Transfer of Personnel Costs
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Human Resources, do you want to transfer the results of personnel cost planningto Controlling (CO) as part of your planning for personnel expenses?
A:
2.1.3.13. Transfer of Scheduled Activity PP -> CO-ABC
Questions:
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Q: 1) If you are implementing SAP R/3 manufacturing modules, do you want to transfer activity requirements from sales & operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP to Controlling (CO-ABC) as scheduled activities?
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2.1.3.14. Transfer of Scheduled Activity from PP to CO-OM-CCA
Questions:
Q: 1) If you implementing the SAP R/3 production modules, do you want to transfer the activity requirements from sales and operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP to Controlling (CO-CCA) as the scheduled production activities?
A:
2.1.3.15. Primary Cost Planning (Full Costs)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
A:
2.1.3.16. Primary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
A:
2.1.3.17. Secondary Cost Planning (Full Costs)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to represent activity relationships between cost centers in your planning?
A:
2.1.3.18. Secondary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to represent activity relationships between cost centers in your planning?
A:
2.1.3.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you want to use integrated internal orders in cost center planning (such as repair orders, marketing orders) and settle them to cost centers after planning at the cost element level?
A:
2.1.3.20. Cost Element Planning (Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan costs at the cost element level on overhead cost orders?
A:
2.1.3.21. Overall Planning (Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan overall costs (values only, independent of cost elements) on overhead cost orders?
A:
2.1.3.22. Unit Costing (Order)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to enter planning data in your planning for overhead cost orders, as well as the cost element information?
A:
2.1.3.23. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you periodically move costs from a project/cost center (such as telephone costs) to other projects/cost centers?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
2.1.3.24. Imputed Costs - Plan
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe how accruals are planned for actual data.
A:
2.1.3.25. Process Cost Planning
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Questions:
Q: 1) State how you want to transfer the plan values from Cost Center Accounting to your business processes.
A:
2.1.3.26. Overhead Calculation (Cost Center)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan to allocate a certain type of costs/expenses to cost centers automatically using overhead rates?
A:
2.1.3.27. Overhead Calculation [Overhead Order]
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type of costs/expenses on orders?
A:
Q: 2) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
A:
Q: 3) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A:
2.1.3.28. Plan Cost Distribution
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to distribute costs from a cost center or a cost center group to CO objects (cost center, orders, WBS element), and keep the orginal cost element from the sender in the receiver object?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
2.1.3.29. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you collect costs/expenses on an internal order that you want represented on a cost center?
A:
Q: 2) If so, do you want to be able to see the costs of the cost center (settlement under the original cost element)?
A:
Q: 3) Or do you want to summarize/aggregate the costs on the cost center (using one or more secondary settlement cost elements)?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want to transfer the order planning to profitability analysis?
A:
2.1.3.30. Plan Cost Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you allocation costs from one cost cente / group from cost centers to other CO objects (cost centers, orders, WBS elements) by summarizing the original cost elements from the sender cost center(s) into one secondary assessement cost element?
A:
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
2.1.3.31. Plan Reconciliation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to reconcile the demand for scheduled labour hours (activity types) with the available capacity?
A:
2.1.3.32. Splitting
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have cases/situations where a cost element in cost center planning is related to more than one activity (activity type)? If so, see to it that the activity-independent planned costs are split to the activity types before you calculate the prices.
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Q: 2) Define rules for the split.
A:
Q: 3) Comment on splitting
A:
Q: 4) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
2.1.3.33. Planned Price Calculation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to calculate the planned price automatically or iteratively by dividing the planned costs for a cost center/activity type by the planned activity quantities (or capacities)?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to calculate planned prices automatically/iteratively for Activity-Based Costing by dividing the costs planned for the business process by the planned process quantity?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to display partial cost rates (primary cost split) for the planned prices that were calculated automatically/iteratively?
A:
2.1.4. Standard cost estimate
Questions:
Q: 1) What types of costing do you want to use (adjusted standard, monthly, inventory, and so on)?
A:
2.1.4.1. Preparation for Costing
Questions:
Q: 1) Did you check if all the source data from other modules is available for calculating the production costs?
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Q: 2) Which prices will you use for materials, internal activities, external activities, and subcontracting?
A:
Q: 3) How do you want to allocate overhead in costing: using overhead rates or activity-based costing, or both?
A:
2.1.4.2. Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan your product costs using bills of material (BOM), routings, or dependencies?
A:
Q: 2) Do you plan the costs for externally procured materials using purchasing info records?
A:
Q: 3) Do you subcontract any of your manufacturing activities?
A:
Q: 4) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant?
A:
Q: 5) Do you want to analyze CGM broken down according to the organizational units involved in the value-added process?
A:
Q: 6) Do you plan product costs centrally or independently by plant?
A:
Q: 7) Do you need to plan costs in multiple currencies?
A:
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Q: 8) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs?
A:
Q: 9) If you are using mixed costing, what proportions of the individual procurement alternatives/manufacturing processes should be used as a basis for costing?
A:
2.1.4.3. Standard Cost Estimate Without Quantity Structure
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan your product costs using bills of material (BOM), routings, or dependencies?
A:
Q: 2) Since you are calculating your product costs without access to SAP quantity structure data, where are you getting the quantity information required for costing?
A:
Q: 3) Do you subcontract any of your manufacturing activities?
A:
Q: 4) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant?
A:
Q: 5) Do you want to analyze CGM broken down according to the organizational units involved in the value-added process?
A:
Q: 6) Do you plan product costs centrally or independently by plant?
A:
Q: 7) Do you need to plan costs in multiple currencies?
A:
Q: 8) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs?
A:
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2.1.4.4. Standard Cost Estimate for Co-Products
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have production processes that ever yield multiple products?
A:
Q: 2) What rules are used to apportion the costs to the co-products?
A:
2.1.4.5. Price Release with Standard Cost Estimate
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to update your standard product costs as the standard prices in MM (with stock revaluation)?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to update your product costs calculate using other cost estimates as planned prices, commercial prices, and so on in MM (without stock revaluation)?
A:
2.1.5. Profit Center Planning2.1.5.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's plan values? If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
A:
2.1.5.2. Copy Actual Costs to Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's actual values? If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
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2.1.5.3. Excel Upload -> Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Is your plan data available on an external medium?
A:
2.1.5.4. Redefinition of Plan Version (Profit Center Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to represent different planning scenarios in parallel?
A:
Q: 3) Which plan versions should be transferred (integrated) from other applications?
A:
2.1.5.5. Plan Integration of Profit Centers
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan data to PCA from other applications? From which application(s)?
A:Comments:
2.1.5.6. Manual Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your process for manual profit center planning.
A:
2.1.5.7. Plan Profit Center Distribution
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you carry out distributions from one profit center to another profit center (which possibly belongs to another company code) within the same controlling area?
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2.1.5.8. Plan Profit Center Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you assess values from one profit center to another within a controlling area when the profit centers are not assigned to the same company code?
A:
2.1.6. Profit Planning2.1.6.1. Valuation of Sales Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use cost of goods manufactured for valuation of your sales quantities?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to calculate revenues and sales deductions using price determination in SD, or conditions in CO-PA?
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to valuate your sales quantities using average values (rates) from the past?
A:
2.1.6.2. Creation of Planning Proposal (Without Sales Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to structure your sales planning based on reference data? If so, what is the source and form of this data?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want to adapt the reference dates to be used as a planning proposal?
A:
Q: 3) Do you use forecasting techniques in your planning process? If so, describe them.
A:
2.1.6.3. Manual Profit Planning
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Questions:
Q: 1) Which level of the hierarchy do you want to use for planning (for example, product, product group, customer, sales organization)?
A:
Q: 2) How do you want the planning screens to look?
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2.1.6.4. Planned Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the plan process costs to profitability analysis? ales, and development costs)?
A:
Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you require for transferring the planned process costs to profitability analysis?
A:
2.1.6.5. Planned Allocation Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the planned cost center costs to profitability analysis?
A:
Q: 2) Which level do you want to plan these costs on (using the step-by-step principles of analysis of fixed-cost allocation)?
A:
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you reqiure for transferring planned cost center costs to profitability analysis?
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2.1.6.6. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you collect costs/expenses on an internal order that you want represented on a cost center?
A:
Q: 2) If so, do you want to be able to see the costs of the cost center (settlement under the original cost element)?
A:
Q: 3) Or do you want to summarize/aggregate the costs on the cost center (using one or more secondary settlement cost elements)?
A:
Q: 4) Do you want to transfer the order planning to profitability analysis?
A:
2.1.6.7. Project Settlement
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the projects to profitability analysis?
A:
2.1.6.8. Analysis of Results And Contribution Margins
Questions:
Q: 1) Determine the structure of the contribution margin scheme you want to report on in CO-PA.
A:
Q: 2) What are the calculated ratios?
A:
Q: 3) Determine the hierarchical structures of the market segments you want to drill down to in reporting.
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2.2. Strategic Business Planning
Questions:
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Q: 1) What is the system landscape like: which SAP systems and non-SAP systems are in use?
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Q: 2) Describe your hardware structure.
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Q: 3) For R/3 systems: Which Releases are used?
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Q: 4) Do you work with distributed systems? If yes, which ones are they?
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Q: 5) Is there a multi-client concept?
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Q: 6) Which SAP system components and non-SAP system components are used for which business purposes?
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Q: 7) At what stage is the reporting system for Business Planning?
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Q: 8) What level of detail do you want to display with Business Planning
A:
Q: 9) Is it possible to subdivide the scope in more than one evaluation area (with reference to their business context)? If yes, make a list of these evaluation areas.
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Q: 10) Is it possible to prioritize these individual evaluation areas?
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Q: 11) What are the target groups for the evaluation areas to be mapped in the system?
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Q: 12) How large is the expected data volume to be (per evaluation area)?
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Q: 13) Is it possible to use an interface tool - such as inSight?
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Q: 14) Which subprojects are planned?
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Q: 15) What schedule are you working towards for completion of the sub-project(s)?
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Q: 16) How much consultation is required? At which stage?
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Q: 17) How many employees are available during the project?
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Q: 18) What level of knowledge do the available employees have?
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Q: 19) How intensely could the available employees work on the project/subprojects?
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2.2.1. Data modeling
Questions:
Q: 1) Analysis: What information is required in the previously identified evaluation areas?
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Q: 2) Which data sources (systems from the system landscape) function as plan data providers for the evaluation areas?
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Q: 3) Which characteristics (evaluation criteria) and basic key figures can be added to a data model for each evaluation area?
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Q: 4) What relationship exists between the basic key figures and the characteristics?
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Q: 5) Which basic key figures are filled in with reference to which characteristics from which plan data sources?
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Q: 6) Which characteristic values should be allowed for the identified characteristics (master data)?
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2.2.2. Basic settings2.2.2.1. Foreign currencies
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to display several currencies in reporting and translate amounts into different target currencies?
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2.2.2.2. File names
Questions:
Q: 1) If files are one of the sources of data transfers, these can be defined here with logical file names.
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2.2.3. Data basis2.2.3.1. Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Which characteristics (evaluation criteria) and basic key figures can be added to a data model for each evaluation area?
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Q: 2) Name all characteristics from the data model which you would like to report on in the individual business evaluation areas.
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Q: 3) Which characteristics do you want to use attributes for? Which characteristics should already be understood as attributes for other characteristics?
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Q: 4) For those objects that are dependent on each other. List them in a hierarchical structure.
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Q: 5) Which attributes do you want to use to navigate to the reports? Which attributes are specified for display only?
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Q: 6) Should currency/unit fields be used as display attributes?
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Q: 7) Can you/do you want to form groups of characteristic values? If yes, make a list of them.
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Q: 8) List the characteristics for which no master data exists.
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2.2.3.2. Basic key figures
Questions:
Q: 1) List all basic key figures from the data model which you have identified in the individual business evaluation areas for calculation of your plan figures.
A:
Q: 2) Can these basic key figures be transferred directly from the operational system and data sources, or is it necessary to calculate them?
A:
2.2.3.3. Aspect
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Questions:
Q: 1) Which of the characteristics, which were identified under "characteristics" for each valuation area, are highly selective?
A:
Q: 2) List the characteristics of an evaluation area in the order in which they were calculated and transfer them to the aspect in this order. Transfer the basic key figures for the evaluatoin area to the same aspect.
A:
2.2.3.4. Calculated Key Figures
Questions:
Q: 1) List all the key figures to be calculated from basic key figures, as well as their calculation formula. (If possible, list them hierarchically).
A:
Q: 2) Specify the aggregation with regard to structurally oriented characteristics and time-based characteristics (where appropriate with reference field, the number of decimal places and the scaling of the key figures)
A:
Q: 3) Do you want to group your key figures? If yes, how?
A:
2.2.3.5. Comment tables
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to run comments for plan data?
A:
Q: 2) Which combinations of characteristics should the comments be created with (also cross-aspect)?
A:
2.2.3.6. Fixed Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Which fiscal year variant(s) is/are valid for your aspects?
A:
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Q: 2) How many data versions (for different plan variants) are required for each aspect?
A:
2.2.3.7. Summarization levels
Questions:
Q: 1) Is it likely that in some reports, aggregated sections of the aspect dataset may have to be accessed?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.2.3.8. Currency Translation Types for Data Transfer and Planning Layouts
Questions:
Q: 1) Should/must currency translations be carried out for data acquisition and data conversion using aspect summarization/in the planning layout?
A:
Q: 2) When you carry out currency translations, how are these specified?
A:
2.2.3.9. Derivation
Questions:
Q: 1) Does a set of rules exist to describe a constant valid relation between characteristics?
A:
2.2.3.10. Validation
Questions:
Q: 1) Should plan data to be transferred to an aspect be subjected to a plausibility check?
A:
2.2.3.11. Data slices
Questions:
Q: 1) Should plan data which is to be transferred to an aspect - or which has already been posted - be made unaccessible for certain users?
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A:
2.2.4. Data transfer
Questions:
Q: 1) From which source systems and/or SAP R/3 applications do you want to transfer plan data to the aspects?
A:
2.2.4.1. External Systems
Questions:
Q: 1) Which transfer methods should be used for the data transfer?
A:
Q: 2) For data transfers from external systems (R/2, R/3 systems): Are the technical network connections set up at the hardware and operating system level?
A:
2.2.4.2. Transaction data
Questions:
Q: 1) Are EC-EIS-Standard data-collection programs (from R/3 or R/2) applicable?
A:
Q: 2) Specify the data exactly which should be transferred, with regard to the named examples under the documentation.
A:
2.2.4.3. Master data
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the master data which should be transferred.
A:
2.2.4.4. Comments
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the comments which should be transferred.
A:
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2.2.4.5. Master Data Hierarchy
Questions:
Q: 1) Have you filed master data hierarchies for specific characteristics in the form of files, the contents of which you want to transfer for these characteristics?
A:
2.2.4.6. Transfer procedure
Questions:
Q: 1) In which order should the data transfer runs (for master data, master data hierarchies, planning data, comments) be started?
A:
2.2.4.7. File
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the files that you want to import to EC-EIS by structure and transfer logic.
A:
2.2.4.8. Control Report Portfolio
Questions:
Q: 1) Indicate whether or not you want to update report portfolio reports in the background. If so, indicate when you want to do this, and whether exceptions defined in the reports should be checked.
A:
2.2.5. Business Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan the aspect manually or automatically?
A:
2.2.5.1. Create planning layout
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify which characteristics and key figures you want to have displayed in an entry form and which key figures you want to plan in the same layout.
A:
2.2.5.2. Maintain planner profiles
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Questions:
Q: 1) Can you distinguish special groups of planners and if yes, which ones are they?
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2.2.5.3. Create Distribution Key
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have certain keys, according to which plan data within your company is distributed according to periods?
A:
2.2.5.4. Change Revaluation Factor
Questions:
Q: 1) Are there certain aspect basic key figures for which percentage changes must automatically be considered in planning runs?
A:
2.2.5.5. Maintain forecast profiles
Questions:
Q: 1) Is there a combination of factors (in the form of a planning strategy) in your enterprise which must automatically be considered in certain planning runs?
A:
2.2.5.6. Maintain weighting group
Questions:
Q: 1) When using the forecast to determine future values, do you want to weight previous periods with certain factors?
A:
2.2.5.7. Object-Dependent Parameters
Questions:
Q: 1) In planning sessions, do you want to use certain revaluation factors, distribution keys or forecast profiles dependent on specific characteristic combinations?
A:
2.2.5.8. Maintain calculation formulas for basic key figures
Questions:
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Q: 1) When generating plan data, are there basic key figures whose plan values result from formulas using other basic key figures and constants?
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2.2.6. Information System2.2.6.1. Maintain Report Selection
Questions:
Q: 1) Should a report treee be created in EC-EIS? If so, which reports (EC-EIS, other applications, transactions, ABAPs) should be included in the tree?
A:
2.2.6.2. Print in MS Word for Windows
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use MS-Winword to print your reports (from the report portfolio)?
A:
2.2.7. Tools2.2.7.1. Conversion to Release 4.0
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have to convert your system from a Release < 4.0 to a Release 4.x?
A:
2.2.7.2. Authorization management
Questions:
Q: 1) For which aspect objects do you wish to allocate authorizations (aspects, characteristic values, key figures)?
A:
Q: 2) For which reports/forms/layouts/programs etc. in Business Planning do you wish to allocate authorizations?
A:
Q: 3) Which employees work with the business planning a) as a user b) as an administrator?
A:
Q: 4) Is it possible to classify different user groups in Business Planning, and if so, which?
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Q: 5) Which activities with reference to which objects should the authorizations (Profiles) of the user groups enable?
A:
2.2.7.3. Data basis
Questions:
Q: 1) Which aspects should be visible in which clients?
A:
Q: 2) Are objects of the aspect environment to be generated subsequently if necessary?
A:
Q: 3) Is there possibly an inconsistency between the ABAP Dictionary and the Field Catalog?
A:
Q: 4) Are all modules and routines for handling master data functional?
A:
2.2.7.4. Data transfer
Questions:
Q: 1) Should data be transferrable from aspect to aspect (with summarization where required)?
A:
2.2.7.5. Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do comments or documents need to be reorganized?
A:
2.2.7.6. Transport
Questions:
Q: 1) In EC-EIS do you want to transport used objects in a target system?
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2.2.8. Task Functions on Information System2.2.8.1. Reports
Questions:
Q: 1) Which key figures should be analyzed by which characteristics.
A:
2.2.8.2. Forms
Questions:
Q: 1) Are complex layouts required (descriptions of content and form of reports, possibly using formula columns/rows/cells)?
A:
2.2.8.3. Variables
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the global variables for characteristic values, hierarchies, hierarchy nodes, formulas and texts which you want to use in various forms and reports.
A:
2.2.8.4. Report data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to work with saved (frozen) report data (for performance reasons)?
A:
2.2.8.5. Report portfolio
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use user group specific report portfolios as the interface for end users?
A:
Q: 2) Outline a hierarchical structure for this portfolio by specifying report classes where the reports can be stored.
A:
2.2.9. Task Functions on Tools2.2.9.1. Data (Tools)
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to reduce the amount of data in your aspects by archiving?
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Q: 2) Do you want to delete data which has been transferred to the wrong aspect(s)?
A:
2.2.9.2. Information System
Questions:
Q: 1) Are forms, reports, saved report data or variant groups to be deleted?
A:
Q: 2) Do you use your reporting multilingually?
A:
Q: 3) Is your master data also maintained in several languages?
A:
2.3. Consolidation
Questions:
Q: 1) Which tools were consolidated with up to now?
A:
Q: 2) How is your group accounting organised?
A:
Q: 3) Which languages must supported on the part of the system?
A:
Q: 4) Which consolidation types do you want to set?
A:Comments:
Q: 5) How many consolidated financial statements do you want to create during a year?
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A:
Comments:
Q: 6) Do you intend to consolidate different data categories? If yes, which ones?
A:
Comments:
Q: 7) How many consolidation units and consolidation groups are included?
A:
Comments:
Q: 8) How often do these hierarchies of consolidation groups change within your reporting timeframe?
A:
Comments:
Q: 9) Which accounting principles do you adhere to when creating consolidated statements?
A:Comments:
Q: 10) Should income statements be created using cost-of-sales accounting or period accounting?
A:
Comments:
Q: 11) Have you implemented SAP legacy systems - if yes, which ones, and where?
A:
Comments:
Q: 12) In which form and at which dates do you collect the reported financial data from the individual companies?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 13) Are there differences with regard to the scope of reported data?
A:
Comments:
Q: 14) Does the reported financial data have to be standardized for group-wide valuation rules?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 15) Do you have foreign companies?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 16) What is the extent of the consistency checks of your data at this time?
A:
Comments:
Q: 17) Do you have to create financial statements for subgroups in different reporting currencies?
A:
Comments:
Q: 18) Are there subsidiaries/subgroups in high inflation countries, which have to report in hard currency?
A:
Comments:
Q: 19) Which consolidation functions do you use?
A:Comments:
Q: 20) Which accounting techniques do you use?
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A:
Comments:
Q: 21) How is your corporate reporting presently designed?
A:
Comments:
Q: 22) Which tools do you use at the moment to create your reports?
A:
Comments:
Q: 23) How is your authorization concept currently designed?
A:
Comments:
Q: 24) How is your current organizational flow for creating consolidated statements?
A:
Comments:
Q: 25) How many employees are involved in the creation of the consolidated financial statements?
A:
Comments:
Q: 26) How should the organisation of training measures take place?
A:
Comments:
Q: 27) Which demands are you making on the documentation and what are its aims?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 28) What kind of an implementation strategy do you want to implement?
A:
Comments:
Q: 29) Possible test scenarios?
A:
Comments:
Q: 30) What does your technical infra-structure / system availability look like?
A:
Comments:
Q: 31) Which resources can be available in terms of time frame and quantity?
A:
Comments:
2.3.1. Preparatory Work: General2.3.1.1. Creating Dimensions
Questions:
Q: 1) Which consolidation types do you want to set?
A:Comments:
2.3.1.2. Creating Versions
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to consolidate different data categories? If yes, which ones?
A:
2.3.1.3. Check Currencies
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you receive reported data in currencies, which are not delivered in the standard?
A:
2.3.1.4. Definition of Ledgers
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Questions:
Q: 1) In which currencies do you want to the reports generated.?
A:
2.3.1.5. Definition of Consolidation Units
Questions:
Q: 1) Determine the smallest units of your corporate structure which are to be used as the basis for a complete consolidation run.
A:
Q: 2) In case the consolidation units are transferred from a file by flexible upload, see the documentation.
A:
Q: 3) Define suitable, logical file names.
A:
Q: 4) Do you require additional attributes for your consolidation units?
A:
Q: 5) In which form and at which dates do you collect the reported financial data from the individual companies?
A:
2.3.1.6. Definition of Consolidation Groups
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the consolidation group according to your requirements.
A:
Q: 2) Create suitable hierarchies.
A:
Q: 3) How many consolidated financial statements do you want to create during a year?
A:
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Q: 4) Comments to integrated consolidation types
A:
Q: 5) Comments for the transfer of consolidation groups by flexible upload from file
A:
2.3.1.7. Definition of Cons Chart of Accounts / Cons Chart of Accounts Hierarchy
Questions:
Q: 1) Which requirements do you have for the creation and/or structure of your cons chart of accounts (US GAAP, IAS, HGB)?
A:
Q: 2) Should retained earnings be disclosed in the balance sheet or in the income statement?
A:Comments:
Q: 3) Should income statements be created using cost-of-sales accounting or period accounting?
A:
Comments:
Q: 4) Do you summarize your operational accounts to group accounts (financial statement items)?
A:Comments:
Q: 5) If yes, do you summarize at the subsidiary level or at the corporate group level?
A:Comments:
Q: 6) Do you require further freely definable classifications for your FS items?
A:
Comments:
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Q: 7) Do you use an integration scenario? If so, you can transfer the FS items from a G/L chart of accounts or a financial statement version.
A:
Comments:
Q: 8) Define your selected items for posting financial statement imbalances and for posting deferred taxes, for both retained earnings carried forward as well as the balancing adjustment.
A:
Comments:
2.3.1.8. Definition of Breakdown Categories
Questions:
Q: 1) How many breakdown categories can be derived from your reporting system? Which different details would you like to see withing a consolidation chart of accounts?
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to differentiate elimination differences between currency-related and other differences?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.3.1.9. Definition of Custom Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need further custom characteristics, in addition to the standard subassignments?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) If yes how many and which characteristics?
A:
Comments:
2.3.1.10. Definition of Subitem Categories
Questions:
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Q: 1) Which standard subassignments would you like to use? What requirements do you have for group reporting later on, for example, asset history sheets, equity aging reports, segment reports, etc. ?
A:
2.3.1.11. Definition of Subitems
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you want to define the subitems?
A:
Q: 2) Which default values do you want to define for the characteristic value of subitems?
A:
2.3.2. Preparatory Work: Integration
Questions:
Q: 1) Have you implemented SAP legacy systems - if yes, which ones, and where?
A:
2.3.3. Preparatory Work: Production2.3.3.1. Administration of Authorizations
Questions:
Q: 1) How is your authorization concept currently designed?
A:
2.3.3.2. Setting up Translation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have foreign employees, who do not log onto the R/3-System in German?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 2) Have you translated your reports into the required languages?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
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Q: 3) Have you checked which language versions you need for: - FS items/subassignments - consolidation units and groups - data entry layouts - messages (e.g. for validations) - reports
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.3.4. Processes of the Data Monitor
Questions:
Q: 1) Have you assigned all data monitor tasks you need to the data monitor?
A:
2.3.4.1. Non-integrated Financial Data Transfer by Online Entry
Questions:
Q: 1) In which form and at which dates do you collect the reported financial data from the individual companies?
A:
Q: 2) Are there differences with regard to the scope of reported data?
A:
2.3.5. Processes of the Consolidation Monitor
Questions:
Q: 1) Which consolidation functions do you use?
A:Comments:
2.3.5.1. Preparation of Consolidation Group Changes
Questions:
Q: 1) Have you activated the maintenance of acquisition and divestiture subitems in the subitem categories for transaction types?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
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Q: 2) Have you maintained the acquisition and divestiture subitems in the relevant subitems?
A:
Comments:
Q: 3) Do you use the standard document types or do you define your own document types for the posting of consolidation group changes?
A:
Comments:
2.3.5.2. Interunit Elimination by Elimination of IU Payables and Receivables
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to differentiate elimination differences between currency-related and other differences?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.3.5.3. Interunit Elimination by Elimination of IC Revenue and Expense
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to differentiate elimination differences between currency-related and other differences?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.3.5.4. Consolidation of investments
Questions:
Q: 1) Which accounting techniques do you use?
A:
Q: 2) What is your calculation base?
A:
Q: 3) Reported items equity?
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Q: 4) Do you clear differentials resulting from consolidation of investments against fair value adjustments?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
Q: 5) How do you treat goodwill/negative goodwill?
A:Comments:
2.3.6. Information System
Questions:
Q: 1) How is your corporate reporting presently designed?
A:
2.4. Executive Information System (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) What is the system landscape like: which SAP systems and non-SAP systems are in use?
A:
Q: 2) Describe your hardware structure.
A:
Q: 3) For R/3 systems: Which Releases are used?
A:
Q: 4) Do you work with distributed systems? If yes, which ones are they?
A:
Q: 5) Is there a multi-client concept?
A:
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Q: 6) Which SAP system components and non-SAP system components are used for which business purposes?
A:
Q: 7) What is the status of Management Reporting?
A:
Q: 8) What level of detail should be represented with EIS?
A:
Q: 9) Is it possible to subdivide the scope in more than one evaluation area (with reference to their business context)? If yes, make a list of these evaluation areas.
A:
Q: 10) Is it possible to prioritize these individual evaluation areas?
A:
Q: 11) What are the target groups for the evaluation areas to be mapped in the system?
A:
Q: 12) How large is the expected data volume to be (per evaluation area)?
A:
Q: 13) Is it possible to use an interface tool - such as inSight?
A:
Q: 14) Which subprojects are planned?
A:
Q: 15) What schedule are you working towards for completion of the sub-project(s)?
A:
Q: 16) How much consultation is required? At which stage?
A:
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Q: 17) How many employees are available during the project?
A:
Q: 18) What level of knowledge do the available employees have?
A:
Q: 19) How intensely could the available employees work on the project/subprojects?
A:
2.4.1. Data modeling
Questions:
Q: 1) Analysis: What information is required in the previously identified evaluation areas?
A:
Q: 2) Which data sources (systems from the system landscape) function as data providers for the evaluation areas?
A:
Q: 3) Which characteristics (evaluation criteria) and basic key figures can be added to a data model for each evaluation area?
A:
Q: 4) What relationship exists between the basic key figures and the characteristics?
A:
Q: 5) Which basic key figures are filled in? Which characteristics do they refer to? Which data sources do these characteristics come from?
A:
Q: 6) Which characteristic values should be allowed for the identified characteristics (master data)?
A:
2.4.2. Basic settings2.4.2.1. Foreign currencies
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Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to display several currencies in reporting and translate amounts into different target currencies?
A:
2.4.2.2. File names
Questions:
Q: 1) If files are one of the sources of data transfers, these can be defined here with logical file names.
A:
2.4.3. Data basis2.4.3.1. Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Which characteristics and basic key figures can be added to a data model for each evaluation area?
A:
Q: 2) Name all characteristics from the data model which you would like to report on in the individual business evaluation areas.
A:
Q: 3) Which characteristics do you want to use attributes for? Which characteristics should already be understood as attributes for other characteristics?
A:
Q: 4) For those objects that are dependent on each other. List them in a hierarchical structure.
A:
Q: 5) Which attributes do you want to use to navigate to the reports? Which attributes are specified for display only?
A:
Q: 6) Should currency/unit fields be used as display attributes?
A:
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Q: 7) Can you/do you want to form groups of characteristic values? If yes, make a list of them.
A:
Q: 8) List the characteristics for which no master data exists.
A:
2.4.3.2. Basic key figures
Questions:
Q: 1) Name all the basic key figures from the data model which you have identified in the individual business evaluation areas for calculation of your critical success factors or KPIs.
A:
Q: 2) Can these basic key figures be transferred directly from the operational system and data sources, or is it necessary to calculate them?
A:
2.4.3.3. Aspect
Questions:
Q: 1) Which of the characteristics, which were identified under "characteristics" for each valuation area, are highly selective?
A:
Q: 2) List the characteristics of an evaluation area in the order in which they were calculated and transfer them to the aspect in this order. Transfer the basic key figures for the evaluatoin area to the same aspect.
A:
2.4.3.4. Calculated Key Figures
Questions:
Q: 1) List all the key figures to be calculated from basic key figures, as well as their calculation formula. (If possible, list them hierarchically).
A:
Q: 2) Specify the aggregation with regard to structurally oriented characteristics and time-based characteristics (where appropriate with reference field, the number of decimal places and the scaling of the key figures)
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Q: 3) Do you want to group your key figures? If yes, how?
A:
2.4.3.5. Comment tables
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to include comments for transaction data?
A:
Q: 2) Which combinations of characteristics should the comments be created with (also cross-aspect)?
A:
2.4.3.6. Fixed Characteristics
Questions:
Q: 1) Which fiscal year variant(s) is/are valid for your aspects?
A:
Q: 2) How many data versions (for different plan variants) are required for each aspect?
A:
2.4.3.7. Summarization levels
Questions:
Q: 1) Is it likely that in some reports, aggregated sections of the aspect dataset may have to be accessed?
A: [ ]Yes [ ]No
Comments:
2.4.3.8. Currency Translation Types for Data Transfer and Planning Layouts
Questions:
Q: 1) Should or must currency translations be carried out for data collection, data conversion through aspect summarization, or in entry layouts?
A:
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Q: 2) When you carry out currency translations, how are these specified?
A:
2.4.3.9. Data Entry Layout
Questions:
Q: 1) Is actual data entered manually? If so, is single record maintenance sufficient? If not, which characteristics or key figures should a data entry layout contain?
A:
2.4.3.10. Derivation
Questions:
Q: 1) Does a set of rules exist to describe a constant valid relation between characteristics?
A:
2.4.3.11. Validation
Questions:
Q: 1) Should the transaction data to be transferred to an aspect undergo a plausibility check?
A:
2.4.3.12. Data slices
Questions:
Q: 1) Should the transaction data that is to be transferred to an aspect, or is already posted, be protected (time-dependent) from access by certain users?
A:
2.4.4. Data transfer
Questions:
Q: 1) From which source systems and/or SAP R/3 applications do you want to transfer which data to EIS (e.g. transaction data, master data, master data hierarchies, master data comments)?
A:
2.4.4.1. External Systems
Questions:
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Q: 1) Which transfer methods should be used for the data transfer?
A:
Q: 2) For data transfers from external systems (R/2, R/3 systems): Are the technical network connections set up at the hardware and operating system level?
A:
2.4.4.2. Transaction data
Questions:
Q: 1) Are EC-EIS-Standard data-collection programs (from R/3 or R/2) applicable?
A:
Q: 2) Specify the data exactly which should be transferred, with regard to the named examples under the documentation.
A:
2.4.4.3. Master data
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the master data which should be transferred.
A:
2.4.4.4. Comments
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the comments which should be transferred.
A:
2.4.4.5. Master Data Hierarchy
Questions:
Q: 1) Have you filed master data hierarchies for specific characteristics in the form of files, the contents of which you want to transfer for these characteristics?
A:
2.4.4.6. Transfer procedure
Questions:
Q: 1) In which order should the data transfer runs (for master data, master data hierarchies, planning data, comments) be started?
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A:
2.4.4.7. File
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the files that you want to import to EC-EIS by structure and transfer logic.
A:
2.4.4.8. Control Report Portfolio
Questions:
Q: 1) Indicate whether or not you want to update report portfolio reports in the background. If so, indicate when you want to do this, and whether exceptions defined in the reports should be checked.
A:
2.4.5. Information System (EC-EIS)2.4.5.1. Maintain Report Selection
Questions:
Q: 1) Should a report treee be created in EC-EIS? If so, which reports (EC-EIS, other applications, transactions, ABAPs) should be included in the tree?
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2.4.5.2. Print in MS Word for Windows
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use MS-Winword to print your reports (from the report portfolio)?
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2.4.6. Tools2.4.6.1. Conversion to Release 4.0
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have to convert your system from a Release < 4.0 to a Release 4.x?
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2.4.6.2. Authorization management (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) To which objects in the EC-EIS database do you wish to assign authorizations (aspects, characteristic values, key figures)?
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Q: 2) To which EIS reports/forms/layouts/programs or other objects do you wish to assign authorizations?
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Q: 3) Which employees work with EIS a) as a user b) as an administrator?
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Q: 4) Can different EC-EIS user groups be classified, and if so, which?
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Q: 5) Which activities with reference to which objects should the authorizations (Profiles) of the user groups enable?
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2.4.6.3. Data basis
Questions:
Q: 1) Which aspects should be visible in which clients?
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Q: 2) Are objects of the aspect environment to be generated subsequently if necessary?
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Q: 3) Is there possibly an inconsistency between the ABAP Dictionary and the Field Catalog?
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Q: 4) Are all modules and routines for handling master data functional?
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2.4.6.4. Data transfer
Questions:
Q: 1) Should data be transferrable from aspect to aspect (with summarization where required)?
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2.4.6.5. Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do comments or documents need to be reorganized?
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2.4.6.6. Transport
Questions:
Q: 1) In EC-EIS do you want to transport used objects in a target system?
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2.4.7. Task Functions on Information System2.4.7.1. Reports (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) Which key figures should be analyzed by which characteristics.
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2.4.7.2. Forms (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) Are complex layouts required (descriptions of content and form of reports, possibly using formula columns/rows/cells)?
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2.4.7.3. Variables (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) Specify the global variables for characteristic values, hierarchies, hierarchy nodes, formulas and texts which you want to use in various forms and reports.
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2.4.7.4. Report Data (EIS)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to work with saved (frozen) report data (for performance reasons)?
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2.4.7.5. Report Portfolio (EIS)
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you want to use user group specific report portfolios as the interface for end users?
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Q: 2) Outline a hierarchical structure for this portfolio by specifying report classes where the reports can be stored.
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2.4.8. Task Functions on Tools2.4.8.1. Data (Tools)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to reduce the amount of data in your aspects by archiving?
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Q: 2) Do you want to delete data which has been transferred to the wrong aspect(s)?
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2.4.8.2. Information System
Questions:
Q: 1) Are forms, reports, saved report data or variant groups to be deleted?
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Q: 2) Do you use your reporting multilingually?
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Q: 3) Is your master data also maintained in several languages?
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