Accounting › Product Costing
Activity Rates
What one hour of that activity costs, from that cost center. The PLANNED rate charges orders all year; the ACTUAL rate is only knowable afterwards, and the difference is what actual costing settles.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Activity Rates
Address in the console: /accounting/activity-rates
List · 11 columns · 17 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Year | Number | fiscal_year |
| Cost center | Code | cost_center_code |
| Activity | Code | activity_code |
| Version | Status | version |
| Fixed rate | Amount | fixed_rate |
| Variable rate | Amount | variable_rate |
| Total rate | Amount | total_rate |
| Capacity | Number | capacity_quantity |
| Planned | Number | planned_quantity |
| Posted | Number | posted_quantity |
| Locked | Yes or no | is_locked |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost center required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Activity required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Fiscal year required | Number | ||
| Period (blank = the whole year) | Text | ||
| Version | Choice | plan, actual, forecast, simulation | |
| Fixed rate | Number | Split because under-absorbed FIXED cost is a capacity problem and variable cost is an efficiency one. | |
| Variable rate | Number | ||
| Currency | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Capacity | Number | The gap between capacity and plan is idle capacity, and its cost must not be absorbed into a product. | |
| Planned quantity | Number | ||
| Actual quantity | Number | ||
| Planned cost | Number | ||
| Actual cost | Number | ||
| From | Date | ||
| To | Date | ||
| Locked | Yes or no | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.