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This is an old revision of JobCosting made by PhilDaintree on 2008-09-21 19:09:53.
Job Costing
Job Costing is required where the business sells services and wishes to track the cost of providing those services which may include materials and sub-contractor costs. There is revenue associated with the job - by referencing the sales order to the job - normally this comes first and the sales order should allow the set up of the job and a number of fields to describe the job - perhaps these should allow the business to set up the naming of these job description fields. Perhaps we need to allow several sales orders to relate to the job - maybe unecessary?
The output required is to see the revenue resulting from the job and the costs associated with fulfillment of the job - with the profit or loss arising overall resulting.
We need to be able to capture costs from anywhere in the system to accumulate against the job. We already have the jobref fields in purchorderdetails and the gltrans tables. Perhaps the gltrans should be the reference place since this captures costs resulting from purchase invoices and bank payments. However, this does imply the limitation that job costing will not work if the general ledger is not used - I think this is fair enough?