Prorating

If you have expenses to prorate and distribute proportionately to more than one account, you can use prorating. For example, you can distribute a freight charge equally among four accounts. Prorated amounts are automatically determined and distributed to existing invoice distribution lines or to newly defined distribution lines. Prorating of AOC charges are not allowed for rebate-type credit memos.

• Prorate to existing distribution lines

  To divide a charge proportionately to existing non-distribution lines, specify a prorate amount. The prorate account must be blank. This allocates the prorate amount to the existing distribution lines.

  For example, if 75% of the invoice amount is distributed to the first account and 25% to the second, a $100 prorate amount is distributed in the same proportions. $75 is added to the first distribution and $25 to the second.

• Prorate to new accounts

  To prorate a charge to new accounts, specify the amounts, account numbers, and, optionally, the sub-accounts. Distribution lines for each dimension and account number that you specified are added in the system.

  For example, you distributed an invoice amount to accounts in the Corporate and Warehouse accounting strings. You can prorate a freight charge to the same accounting units, Corporate and Warehouse, but to different accounts.