Set up Indirect Allocation of Activities from Processes
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Set up Indirect Allocation of Activities from Processes
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The advantage of indirect activity allocation over cost assessment is that you can allocate the entire activity based on the activity quantity performed or one determined indirectly after valuating it with a fixed and/or a variable price. For information on the basic concept of indirect activity allocation, see Indirect Activity Allocation.
Activities
To define indirect activity allocation, perform the same steps described in Activity-Based Costing. See Maintain Indirect Activity Allocation in Customizing for CO-OM-ABC.
Enter a suitable business process in the cycle as the sender object.
As the receiver, enter those profitability segments that are relevant for allocation.
Prerequisites
You must have a business process that uses allocation category 02 or 03.
The process must have plan data so that a price can be found for valuating the process, or an actual price must have been determined.