Monday, 14 May 2012

What is a 'Primary Cost Element'? | SAP-FICO

 The Primary Cost Elements represent the consumption of production factors like raw materials. human resources, utilities etc. The primary cost elements have their corresponding GL accounts in FI. All the expense / revenue accounts in FI correspond to the primary cost elements in CO. Before you can create the primary cost elements in CO, you first need to create them in FI as GL accounts.
Note that SAP treats revenue elements also as primary cost elements in CO processing. The only difference is that all the revenue elements are identified with a negative sign while posting in CO. The revenue elements correspond to the revenue accounts in FI, and they fall under the Category 01 / 11 of cost element category.

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