Good morning.

CFOs often use the cost functionality to achieve a distribution of financial accounting down to cost objects.

But when everything is distributed, they want to see a Profit and Loss account for each of the cost objects.

The process of distribution cards of cost centers groups all costs and then distributes using an allocation account in the distribution, losing traceability between the expense initially posted and that received by the cost object.

This is a problem because the CFO does not know whether the figures add up with their financial accounting or not. And it also does not know where the cost items that are harming the result of the cost object under study are.

Therefore, it is vital for the CFO to be able to follow the trace from the expense account of the financial accounting and the cost applied as a cost in the cost object.

If this is not possible, they end up not using Business Centa's cost accounting, or at least discourage its use.

All this could be avoided by using a system similar to that of inheritance in allocation accounts, i.e. the allocation cards of cost centers must allow the account that comes to them from financial to be used as the source account of the distribution.

This is a challenge because the distribution can cause cost movement lines to be created exponentially, so you would have to look for some compression system between dates, similar to the one used in analysis views.

I think that if this idea were applied, the system could launch profit and loss accounts for each cost object and its figures could be drilled down to the initial entry that originated the cost. CFOs could follow the distribution trace and start using the functionality more intensively.

Thank you.