It is possible track job costing in Paymate Acclaim with restricted environment
Cost Centre need to be setup before using job costing for employee work details. Every entry made in Job Costing must be assigned to a Cost Centre.
- Creating Cost Centres: Go to Setup -> Cost center and click on add button to create a new cost centre.
Note: Separate account and department codes can be specified for the calculated burden and overhead amounts. If these are blank, burden, and overhead amounts are assigned to the default account and department associated with the Cost Centre.
- When complete, click Save.
- Click Close.
2. Entering Work Details:
When processing payroll, you may enter each employee's hours as Job Costing Work Details. This enables you to take advantage of Paymate's Job Costing reports. Work Details are automatically carried forward into each employee's timesheet.
From the main Paymate window Go to Payroll > Process Payroll,
Now select the employee and then open Timesheet by clicking on (+) at the (bottom + left)
To Add a Work Detail Record for the Employee,
- Click on “Job Cost” at the(bottom right)
- Click “Add” at the (bottom left)
3. The Job Costing Work Details Edit window appears as shown below
The following fields are available on each Work Detail record.
You may override any field. The account and department affect how the amounts will be summarized when you run the Job Costing Account Summary. The Rate will automatically be set to the employee's default rate when you select the payroll category. If the payroll category that you select is not an hourly type, you will not be able to enter the rate, but you will be able to enter the amount.
- When you have entered all the work details click Save.
- Click Close.
Repeat these steps for all employees who applied for Job cost, then you can print your cheque & Payslips and the reports relate to this payroll process, then you can post if all payroll process is completed.
Job Cost Report
If you need a listing or report of the work details entered you can Go to Report > Job Costing > Then select Employee Work Details
Select the cost centre or the range of cost centre, enter the start and end dates for the list, and you may either Preview or Print it.
Note: When you have finished processing the payroll, post the timesheets to the employee history file. Work Details get posted to a history file as well. Once they are posted, they may be accessed only on an individual employee basis. You may access them by clicking Job Costing on the History Edit window.