Accounting Rules for PC - Product Costing

PC10: Inventory Cost Variances

When applied

The basis for the account entries is created in these situations:

The inventory value of an average-costed item - an item with inventory accounting method 2 - is changed in 'Average Cost. Enter per Item/Facility' (CAS370) or 'Average Cost. Display/Update History' (CAS371).
The inventory value of a standard-costed item - an item with inventory accounting method 1 or 3 - is changed per the current date in 'Product Costing. Update Manually' (PCS260) or in any of the other programs for costing calculation listed in
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The inventory value of an actual-costed item - an item with inventory accounting method 4 - is changed in 'Product Costing. Update Manually' (PCS260).

The actual account entries are created in 'Internal Account Entry. Create' (CAS950).

References

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Accounting rules for PC10: Inventory cost variances


Rule	Name	Description
PC10-280	Rounding-off
PC10-910	Inventory	Represents the change in inventory value. Only used for inventory items.
PC10-928	Change in average cost	Represents the change in average cost for average-costed items, based on transactions created in the CRACTR table when approving a proposal for historic actual cost in 'Historic Actual Cost. Calculate' (CAS400). See
PC10-931	Standard cost change	Represents the change in standard cost for items with inventory accounting method 1 (Standard cost) or 3 (Dynamic product cost).
PC10-932	Average cost change	Represents the change in average cost for items with inventory accounting method 2.
PC10-933	Actual cost change	Represents the change in actual cost for items with inventory accounting method 4.

PC20: Transfer Product Costing to Budget

When applied

Internal account entries are created when 'Costing Total. Transfer to BUD' (PCS490) is run. The sole purpose of the account entries is to update an internal budget for cost of goods sold with values that have been calculated using a product costing model. This procedure is part of closed circle budgeting (also called closed budget loop).

Accounting rules for PC20: Transfer product costing to budget


Rule	D/C	Name	Description
PC20-915	C	Cumulative material cost overhead	Represents the material cost, that is, the cost of costing components A04–A05 in the product costing model. This accounting rule should be defined the same way as accounting rule PM10-915.
PC20-921	C	Cumulative work in progress: Operation	Represents the operation cost, that is, the cost of costing components B01–C02. This accounting rule should be defined the same way as accounting rule PM20-921.
PC20-922	C	Cumulative overhead: Product	Represents costs not related to material, labor, tools or subcontract, that is, the cost of costing components E01–E10. This accounting rule should be defined the same way as accounting rule PM30-922.

PC30: Budget Maintenance

When applied

Internal account entries are created in 'Maintenance Budget. Transfer to BUD' (PCS495). They are used the same way as the ones created in accounting event PC20 with the difference that they update a maintenance budget instead.

Accounting rules for PC30: Budget maintenance


Rule	Name	Description
PC30-120	Sales revenues	Represents the sales revenue. Only used if alternative 2 or 3 is selected in the 'Cost/revenue update' field in (PCS495/F).
PC30-912	Work in progress: Material	Represents the material cost, that is, the cost of costing components A04–A05. Only used if alternative 1 or 3 is selected in the 'Cost/revenue update' field in 'Maintenance Budget. Transfer to BUD' (PCS495/F).
PC30-920	Work in progress: Work performed	Represents the operation cost, that is, the cost of costing components B01–C02. Only used if alternative 1 or 3 is selected in the 'Cost/revenue update' field in (PCS495/F).