Setting Up The Burden Cost Storage Method
You choose the method by which you want to store burden amounts on each burdened project type.
If you want to store the burdened cost as an amount on the same expenditure item, you perform the following step:
- In the Costing Information region of the Project Types window, enable the Burden Cost on Same Expenditure Item check box.
If you want to store burden amounts on each burdened expenditure item and, additionally, store the burden amounts in a separate project, you perform the following steps:
1. Define a destination project and task for generated burden transactions.
2. In the Costing Information region of the Project Types window, enable the Account for Burden Cost Components check box and add the Project and Task name.
3. In the Expenditure Types window, define an expenditure type with expenditure type class Burden Transaction.
4. In the Burden Cost Codes window, assign the appropriate burden transaction expenditure type to each burden cost code.
If you want to store the burden costs as separate, summarized transactions on the same project, you perform the following steps:
1. In the Costing Information region of the Project Types window, enable the Burden Cost as Separate Expenditure Item check box.
2. In the Expenditure Types window, define an expenditure type with expenditure type class Burden Transaction.
3. In the Burden Cost Codes window, assign the appropriate burden transaction expenditure type to each burden cost code.
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