sonstige gesetzlich tarifliche und freiwillige soziale Leistungen

17:43 Aug 19, 2011 

@Phil: Aren't you confusing "Kostenplan" with this "Kostenartenplan"? It doesn't sound like a budget to me, but rather some schedule of various expense accounts. And the asker herself brought up the subject of SAP...

16:47 Aug 19, 2011 

I don't agree that it's well-nigh impossible to translate - it just means an itemized expense budget. And I think we're getting too hung up on SAP terminology - they just want to know what the German says.

15:55 Aug 19, 2011 

It isn't hard to translate "Kostenartenplan", it's well-nigh impossible. Basically, what this is is the part of a standard chart of accounts (Kontenplan) containing only the expense accounts (i.e. no income accounts, no asset, liability, or equity accounts, no cash accounts). You could write round it by saying something like "cost accounts contained in (the) chart of accounts", but I think that's as good as you'll get in English.

14:36 Aug 19, 2011 

... a sort of Académie Anglaise (i.e. the official arbiters of what constitutes 'correct' English terminology), except that it is run by Germans. Slightly bizarre situation, IMO.

14:28 Aug 19, 2011 

SAP software is localized from German to English. While it's better now, when it was originally localized the decision was made to do it in-house, using native Germans who "kann Englisch". The result was legacy Denglish that often has no connection to real world business/financial English. But SAP users (and translators) are stuck with it since it would be far too expensive to change at this point.

22:04 Aug 18, 2011 

What is their connection to the English language?

20:50 Aug 18, 2011 

SAP (pronounced ess-eh-pee in English, not "sap" as in tree sap) is a German enterprise software company that sells the world's most popular business software package. Go to sap.com and see for yourself.

19:59 Aug 18, 2011 

Who or what is or are SAP?

14:21 Aug 18, 2011 

Welcome to the site. In the future, please observe the site rule http://www.proz.com/siterules/kudoz_asking/2.3#2.3

13:55 Aug 18, 2011 

Lisa - contact me and I can send you a SAP glossary. Some terrible English translations but they are what SAP uses.

12:36 Aug 18, 2011 

1. Please give us the complete sentence in German containing the asked term and some surrounding text.
2. Which term do you need help with: "sonstige gesetzlich tarifliche und freiwillige soziale Leistungen" or "Kostenartenplan" ?
3. "One term is allowed per question. Including multiple terms for translation in a single KudoZ posting interferes with the process of generating glossary entries." [http://www.proz.com/siterules/kudoz_asking/2.3#2.3]