... Introduction ... 13
... Target Group ... 13
... Objective and Content ... 14
... Universal Parallel Accounting and the Future of Margin Analysis ... 15
... Acknowledgments ... 18
1 ... Introduction to Profitability Analysis ... 19
1.1 ... Purpose of Profitability Analysis ... 19
1.2 ... Profitability Concepts ... 21
1.3 ... Types of Profitability Analysis ... 27
1.4 ... Technical Setup ... 36
1.5 ... Summary ... 38
2 ... Configuring the Operating Concern and Basic Settings for Profitability Analysis ... 41
2.1 ... Creating the Operating Concern ... 41
2.2 ... Activating Profitability Analysis ... 52
2.3 ... Currencies in the Operating Concern ... 54
2.4 ... Creating an Extension Ledger for Profitability Analysis ... 56
2.5 ... Creating Number Ranges for Profitability Analysis ... 59
2.6 ... Assigning Versions to the Operating Concern ... 62
2.7 ... Setting the Operating Concern ... 65
2.8 ... Transporting the Operating Concern ... 66
2.9 ... Summary ... 69
3 ... Configuring Characteristics ... 71
3.1 ... Characteristics ... 73
3.2 ... Characteristics Derivations ... 92
3.3 ... Summary ... 126
4 ... Value Flows of Margin Analysis ... 127
4.1 ... Predictive Accounting ... 128
4.2 ... Billing Data Transfer ... 141
4.3 ... Costs of Goods Manufactured in Margin Analysis ... 150
4.4 ... Splitting the Cost of Goods Sold ... 151
4.5 ... Variance Calculation ... 159
4.6 ... Order Settlement ... 178
4.7 ... Overhead Allocation ... 187
4.8 ... Direct Account Assignment ... 198
4.9 ... Top-Down Distribution ... 202
4.10 ... Summary ... 208
5 ... Costing-Based Profitability Analysis ... 209
5.1 ... Value Fields ... 212
5.2 ... Quantity Fields ... 216
5.3 ... Assigning Value Fields and Quantity Fields to the Operating Concern ... 218
5.4 ... Transferring Incoming Sales Orders ... 218
5.5 ... Transferring Quantity Fields ... 223
5.6 ... Billing Data Transfer ... 230
5.7 ... Costs of Goods Manufactured ... 246
5.8 ... Cost of Goods Sold Transfer and Split ... 249
5.9 ... Variance Calculation ... 269
5.10 ... Cost Center Assessment ... 276
5.11 ... Direct Account Assignment ... 277
5.12 ... Summary ... 283
6 ... Planning ... 285
6.1 ... Planning in Margin Analysis ... 286
6.2 ... Sales Planning ... 289
6.3 ... Cost of Goods Sold Planning ... 293
6.4 ... Overhead Cost Planning ... 294
6.5 ... Summary ... 294
7 ... Reporting ... 295
7.1 ... Profitability Analysis Reporting Basics ... 295
7.2 ... Predictive Accounting ... 298
7.3 ... Showing Line Items for Margin Analysis ... 312
7.4 ... Profitability Analysis Reporting ... 317
7.5 ... Other Reporting Possibilities with Development ... 324
7.6 ... Summary ... 328
A ... Changes to the Data Model ... 331
B ... Additional Sources of Information ... 333
C ... The Author ... 335
... Index ... 337