Eric,
Having operations in multiple departments charging labor to a job doesn't play into the which pool of accounts is used to capture WIP and subsequently COS. You can only have one pool for WIP accounts (and corresponding COGS) per job part and it's based on the job part's Product Group. You should have one set of WIP accounts (labor, burden, subcont, material, mtl burden) and one matching set of COS accounts for each product group.
Flow should be something like this:
Applied Labor-Dept --> WIP ProdGroup Direct Labor-->COS ProdGroup Direct Labor
You may still be able to report at the department level though. I don't know of any standard reports for linking COS to labor departments but if you ship from WIP (make to order), it's fairly easy exercise. If you ship from stock (make to stock), you'll need to find a way to link inventory back to the job, perhaps through lot number. Where there's a will there's a way.
I hope that helps.
Chris
Having operations in multiple departments charging labor to a job doesn't play into the which pool of accounts is used to capture WIP and subsequently COS. You can only have one pool for WIP accounts (and corresponding COGS) per job part and it's based on the job part's Product Group. You should have one set of WIP accounts (labor, burden, subcont, material, mtl burden) and one matching set of COS accounts for each product group.
Flow should be something like this:
Applied Labor-Dept --> WIP ProdGroup Direct Labor-->COS ProdGroup Direct Labor
You may still be able to report at the department level though. I don't know of any standard reports for linking COS to labor departments but if you ship from WIP (make to order), it's fairly easy exercise. If you ship from stock (make to stock), you'll need to find a way to link inventory back to the job, perhaps through lot number. Where there's a will there's a way.
I hope that helps.
Chris
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Mark Wagner <mjfw2003@...> wrote:
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> Have you considered using the COGS on your part class for the materials that are being issued?
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> Subject: [Vantage] COS Question
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 5:11 PM
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> I am looking for some advice on how to handle COS split across two G/L departments. We setup two departments (one for metal shop and one for powder coating) for the purpose of keeping costs seperate. Each department is actually in seperate buildings. Most of our manufactured parts are both welded (or plasma cut, bent, sheared, etc.) as well as powder coated.
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> When I went to setup the COS G/L accounts I noticed that there is only one G/L account that applies to labor, materials, etc. in the product group setup. Since most parts in all product groups will pass through both departments I need to have Vantage apply COS entries for both metal shop and powder coating. How can I set this up to work?
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