Symptom
When doing order confirmation, system use plan cost rate maintained in APP 'Manage Cost Rates - Plan'.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Cause
This is a standard behavior that system use plan cost rate for activity confirmation and shown as actual cost in APP 'Cost Centers - Plan/Actual'.
Resolution
Before period end closing, the activity confirmation uses the plan cost rate for postings and user can execute actual cost rate calculation based on planned costs and activities. The resulting cost rates are used to value actual activities.
Actual cost rate calculation calculates iterative cost rates for activity types based on the actual costs incurred and the actual activities performed.
All activity exchanges between cost centers are taken into account.
After actual cost calculation and actual costing run, the activity can be revalued with the difference between plan and actual cost rates.
By revaluing the actual activity with actual rates, sender cost centers will be fully balanced.
See more information in
Actual Cost Rate Calculation - Cost Centers
Keywords
Order confirmation, activity type, cost rate, manage cost rates. , KBA , CO-PC-ACT-2CL , Actual Costing (Public Cloud) , Problem
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