Adding Overhead to a Job
Complete the following section to apply a percentage
overhead to a stage.
- Open a stage from a job and click on the Totals
tab as shown below:
- Enter a Percent of Cost value.
- The Profit Center entry may not appear
if Profit Center options are not enabled.
Review the Using Profit Centers to Calculate Job Costs
for more details regarding profit centers.
- The Budgeted Overhead value should be
blank unless the Add Overhead to Budget
switch is enabled within the stage's classification.
Review the Getting Started > Classifications
section for instructions on setting the Add
overhead to Budget switch.
- The Actual Overhead value is calculated
by multiplying the Percent of Cost by the
Actual costs.
Complete the following steps to change the Percent
of Cost within multiple stages in the same job.
- Right click on the Percent of Cost entry
and select Filter Down from the context
menu to open the following dialog:
- Set the Stage option.
- Select the All stages
with the same classification option to copy the Percent
of Cost value to stages within the job that contain the same
classification.
- Select the All stages option to copy
the Percent of Cost value to all stages
within the current job. The other options
are disabled since the dialog was opened within an existing job. Review
Overhead Costs > Globally Change Overhead
Percentages section to change the
Percent of Cost
value within multiple jobs.
- Click on the OK button to complete the
changes.
Repeat the steps for each stage within a job.