To Assign budgets to jobs

  1. Open the Costing folder and click Job Processing or click the Financials tab on the Ribbon Bar and then click Costing - Job Processing.

  2. Retrieve the job record for which budgets are to be entered.

  3. Click Action and then click Budgets.

  4. To create a new record, click the icon on the toolbar or press CTRL+N.

  5. When you have finished entering budget details, press ESC and then click OK.

Notes: Click the Memo tab to maintain a notepad of information associated with the budget.

Use the View command on the Action menu to display additional information for the record. Select Status to view the job status including details of budgets, actual values, uplifted values and differences. It also shows potential profit values. Select Lines to view the detail lines relating to the currently selected cost code. This shows the true cost rate and overhead, rather than the defaults shown on the current screen. Select All Lines to view all job transaction detail lines.