Costs Based on Complete

Select Operations to use actual costs for complete operations and planned costs for incomplete operations.

Select Jobs to sum the planned costs of each of the job's operations.

When the item is actual-costed, the system calculates the unit cost of the completed goods, as charged to inventory, differently based on the setting of this field and based on the setting of the Close Job? field on the job transaction:

Close Job field selected? Costs Based on Complete setting Job finish cost equals...
Yes n/a (job's WIP Total - job's WIP Complete) / quantity being moved
No Jobs Job's planned unit cost. The system calculates this value by summing each operation's setup, labor, and machine hours and rates, overhead rates, and efficiencies, as well as each material's planned cost, scrap factor, and quantity per assembly.
No Operations Sum of complete operations' actual costs and open operations' planned costs. The actual cost used for a completed operation is based on the value in the operation's WIP amount.

NOTE: If this parameter is set to "Operations" and you post multiple positive and negative moves into inventory from a job that is for an actual-costed item, it is possible that the cost of each positive move (Job Finish) will decrease and even go negative. This rare occurrence is normal system behavior and is described in detail in Support Solutions KB 686708 and KB 687301, available for download on our Support web site.

Note:  When the item is standard-costed, it is always moved into inventory at its item master standard unit cost at the time of the move, regardless of what cost has been posted against the job or how the job has been processed.