Group Valuation (5W2)

This scope item results in the activation of an additional ledger to store the consolidated view on the intercompany business transactions. Intercompany transactions take place in accordance with the Advanced Intercompany Sales (5D2) and Advanced Intercompany Stock Transfer (5HP) scope items. This scope item extends the Standard Cost Calculation (BEG) scope item to support the calculation of standard costs across different plants and company codes and to deliver a consolidated view on the standard costs and actual costing (see the Actual Costing (33Q) scope item) to provide a consolidated view on the actual costs across the value chain.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Ledger-specific valuations in Asset Accounting, General Ledger, and Controlling
• Costing run to set standard costs in group view
• Costing run to calculate actual costs in group view

Benefits

• Provides a management view of the cost structure that is not distorted by intercompany profits
• Provides the first step towards group reporting by eliminating intercompany profits in real time

Additional Information

• This scope item is excluded from the default activation

This scope item can be requested by net new customers who are using SAP Central Business Configuration as their configuration environment. Note that you can request this scope item for initial scoping only.

Where is Group Valuation(5W2) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a support function of Accounting and Financial Close within Finance Scope Item Group
• As a management function of Cost Management and Profitability Analysis within Finance Scope Item Group

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