Job Costing - Labour

Landeng1

Is it possible to direct labour costs to more than one activity code within a job?

Thanks

Acctd4

What do you mean by "activity code" ? Are you referring to an Account ?

Not directly, but you can allocate labour costs to multiple accounts/jobs/classes/payroll items by using a separate line for each, as the allocation is per-line.

Landeng1

I have a project that is run over various stages, 1 -6.

I would like to track the labour charges by each individual stage all under the same project.

Eg.

Project Number 101

Stage 1 Labour

Stage 2 Labour

etc.

Acctd4

Yes, you just need to allocate the applicable Stage ... in the Customer:Job column on the transaction. To split between multiple stages, you will need to apportion per line eg

If an employee has worked 30 hours with 15 hrs under Stage 1 & 15 hrs under Stage 2, you would need to record the hours via 2 lines as 15 hours each.

Is this labour in Payroll or on an expense (Bill/Cheque) ?

Landeng1

It's in payroll. As far as I'm aware we can only enter the time at a project level but I will check your solution.

Landeng1

Edit to note: I do not wish to create multiple job numbers for each stage

Acctd4

I'm a bit confused by your query ... You don't have to give them specific numbers but you would have to have the stages listed as something somewhere (eg sub Customer:Job of Project Number 101) otherwise there's nothing in the system to track ?!

Project Number 101

> Stage 1

> Stage 2