I’ll start by saying i am not an experienced finance person. But i am learning as i go. My issue is with job costing and how things with subcontracts are rolled up.
We use AvgCosting for reference.
When i started here, the company had just cutover to 2024.2.10. They had been taught that, in order to get subcontract fees (expedite, etc) to roll into the job itself, they needed to make the fees their own line(s) on the PO and receipt them. The issue is that it creates wip quantities for these fees, which means Auto Job Completion won’t consider the job. I discovered that using a PO Line Misc Charge on the PO Line would in fact put that cost into the job itself. However, i cannot figure out for the life of me the logic behind where that cost ends up on the GL. For example: i set up a Misc Charge(Purchase) code and set it to a GL Control that points to an account. The first job i tested it on, after i receipted the PO Line, posted the AP Invoice, completed the job, then closed it and captured cos/wip, when i ran the Inventory/WIP Reconciliation report - the subcontract misc charge did not go to a variance account, but also did not go into the pointed account. The second job i tested in the exact same way, did put the misc charge into a variance account. Another job i tested the exact same way put both the misc charge AND the actual PO Line amount into variance.
the last two jobs, both part numbers are assigned to product groups and the same part class. Both product groups have identical account context set up.
My end goal is that we can use PO Line Misc charges for these fees with subcontractors so that epicor does not think we have a part called ‘expedite’ or ‘lot charge’ in wip, get the amounts to roll into the job, and not end up in a generic variance account.
Again-I don’t have much of a financial background, so I apologize if I’m completely missing something.