Product Description

If you are looking for a guide that shows you how to set up SAP ERP Financials Controlling for Product Costing and how it integrates with other components, this book is for you. This comprehensive resource is for anyone in finance, production planning, purchasing, or sales and distribution with an interest in the integrated areas of product costing.

The author shows you how overhead costs flow from financial postings to cost centers, and then on to manufacturing orders. Readers also discover the ins and outs of the material ledger, transfer pricing, reporting, and learn how Product Cost Controlling allows management to manage product costs and make decisions about the optimal price at which to market products. In addition, you'll explore how to address common problem areas, including month-end processing, long run times, and message and variance analysis.

This is the one resource you need to learn how Product Cost Controlling works in SAP ERP Financials.

Highlights:

• Preliminary Cost Estimate
• Master Data
• Controlling Configuration Settings
• Material Ledger
• Manufacturing Types
• Cost Object Controlling
• Reporting
• Information System
• Variance Calculation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #388404 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 572 pages

About the Author
John Jordan is Founder and Principal Consultant at ERP Corp. and has worked with many clients worldwide. He regularly speaks at conferences and publishes articles, and is considered one of the leading experts in Controlling by clients and peers.

Customer Reviews

It's a good book
If you are looking for a good book that contains general concepts of the product cost controlling, this is the one that you should buy, definitely helps you to understand the internal process used by SAP.

Martin Baker America
"We have had a chance to work directly with John Jordan, and have adopted many of the practices described within his texts. If you are looking for a comprehensive, technical explanation to product cost controlling, this is it."

Simple and effective
After hearing John speak a few times at a conference, I thought this book would be a good tool to help increase my CO knowledge. The book is very well written. The content depth and breadth are great, and there are many excellent illustrative examples. It's an easy read and it remains a very good reference source for me.