Process: Monthly costing and cost accounting closing  

Responsibility area: Perform Costing Monthly Closing

  • For calculation of variances and posting, don’t forget that you have to run always the transactions in processing mode (ZWFA76, KKS1, KKS2, ZWFA78, CO88 and KO88). If you ran it before in test mode, you will have to run it again in processing mode.
  • For WIP (ZWFAA07, KKAO and KKAX) you have to run the transaction only in test mode, NOT in processing mode.
  • For the check of the process orders balance (KOC4), it is preferable to launch it in background in order not to reduce the SAP performance for the other SAP users.
  • The error messages that can appear when running each step can be checked in the spool log. Each one has a specific treatment, but only the ones generating inconsistencies require analysis. If necessary, Regional Cost Accounting FtO will provide additional support to reach a solution.

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  Guideline  

Before start processing the process orders costs you have to run cycle CCCCNA in real mode in order to settle the "process order variances statistics" from cost center CCCC-9201 (In some cases there are cost centers that start with PPPP-9201 for historical reasons). At this stage only small amounts should be on cost center (rounding amounts). In case of high amounts in the balance should be analysed the reason before doing the settlement. For threshold please consider 3K€.

If errors occurred in previous steps check the settlement rule and contact local responsible to correct it.


We can have sometimes some unbalanced process orders after the settlements due to late postings or materials lately costed. To perform the variance calculation and the settlement to COPA of these orders we have to do it individually using transactions KKS2 (for calculation) and KO88 (for the settlement).





I perform corrective action if there are some errors in the previous steps

  • For WIP (ZWFAA07, KKAO and KKAX) you have to run the transaction only in test mode, NOT in processing mode.

Transaction KKAX can be also used to calculate the WIP when you want to do it for a single order. This is not quite usual once we have KKAO that give us all orders that are WIP.

If all orders were balanced for closing month means that this task has been successfully executed.