PJC Projects Screen
You can use up to 15 characters to define a project code for this project.
You can use up to 60 characters to enter a description for this project.
Project tab
Specify the default accounting method for projects. The accounting method determines when to recognize revenues for projects. For more information, see About Accounting Methods.
Note: The program limits the range of accounting methods you can select to those that are consistent with the project type.
Specify the billing type, which together with the project type determines the kinds of details that appear on job-related customer invoices. For more information, see About Billing Types.
This field appears when you choose Cost Plus in Project Type field.
Enter the percentage of your costs, in addition to your actual costs, that you will bill as profit.
Selecting this option makes the record inactive. You cannot use this project in a contract while the project record is inactive.
The program keeps track of the last time you or another user changed this record.
This field appears for fixed price project types that use a completed project or project percentage complete accounting method.
Enter the percentage of your costs, in addition to your actual costs, that you will bill as profit.
Specify the project type, which together with the billing type determines the kind of details that appear on customer invoices. For more information, see About Project Types.
Integration tab
If you selected the option Override G/L Segments, this field appears.
Select the G/L segments that you want to override. Then, in the Segment Code field for each segment, select a valid segment code from the Finder.
If you selected the option Override G/L Segments, this field appears.
Select from the Finder the valid segment code that you want to use to override the G/L segment.
This option lets you replace segments for general ledger accounts when you add the project to a contract. If you do not override segments, the program uses the accounts from the account set you assign to the contract as the default accounts for the project.
When you select the option to override segments, you can specify the segment code you want to use for each General Ledger segment. (This option lets you assign costs by division, regional office, and so on.)
Optional Fields tab
Optional fields that are set up for automatic insertion on this screen appear as defaults for new records. You can accept the default entries, or edit or delete them. You can also add different optional fields, if required.
Use the Finder on the Optional Field column to select optional fields that you have set up for use with the screen.
The description from the optional field setup record appears when you specify an optional field code.
You can change any default entries that appear.
If an optional field requires validation, you can select only a value that is defined for the optional field in Common Services. (If the optional field allows blanks, you can leave the default value field blank.)
If the optional field does not use validation, you can select a value from Common Services, leave the field blank, or enter any value that is consistent with the type of field (yes/no, text, number, date, amount, and so on) and does not exceed the number of characters specified for the optional field.
Overview
Project and Job Costing tracks revenue and revenue-earning activity by project.
You use the Projects screen, available in the PJC Setup folder, to define generic project records for the major revenue-earning activities that your company undertakes (for example, design or pouring foundations). Each separate job, or work phase, that contributes revenue to a contract is a project.
Project records contain settings that let you prescribe how and when to recognize revenues, and the type of billing arrangement for each project. You can add records for typical projects that you will reuse or adapt for a number of contracts, and you can set up special projects that you will use for a particular contract.
You specify a unique code to identify each project record. You use the project codes in the Contract Maintenance screen to assign projects to contract records. Project and Job Costing displays the settings from project records as defaults for new contract projects, saving you time when setting up contracts. (You can change the settings for particular contract projects, as necessary.)
Integration Tab
Use this tab to override contract number segments.
Optional Fields tab
This tab appears only if you use Sage 300 Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator.
You use the Optional Fields setup screen to define the optional fields you need to store additional information with project records.
Once you have set up optional fields for projects, you use this tab to enter the optional information you want to keep with a particular project record. If you set up project optional fields for automatic insertion, they appear on this tab for new project records.
The entries from the project setup record will appear as defaults when you assign the project to a contract.
Project Tab
The Project tab of the Projects screen lets you choose default settings for the projects that you add to your contracts.