Labor Cost Entry (tpppc2531m000)

Use this session to display labor costs manually entered for a project.

This session shows the labor costs transaction that is not posted to Financials and the project history by the Process Transactions (tpppc4802m000) session.

Note: In Project, the financial transactions originating from a financial document (for example a journal voucher) are split as cost or revenue transactions. LN automatically processes and registers the transactions in the Cost Transactions (tpppc2100m000) and Revenue Transactions (tpppc3505m000) sessions, after the financial document linked to the transactions is approved in Financials.

Field Information

Year/Period

The year of the hours transaction.

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The period in which the transaction must be posted to the project history for cost control.

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The From and To fields define a range of: dates.

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The From and To fields define a range of: dates.

Normal Hours

The number of hours spent during normal working hours.

Employee

The employee's code.

Regular Working Hours

The number of hours spent outside normal working hours and in excess of normal working totals.

Sequence Number

A number that identifies labor cost transactions in the project history.

Project

The project number.

Task

The labor's code.

This is the labor code for which the cost variance is registered.

Element

element

Activity

Labor cost transactions can be performed on element level and/or activity level.

Extension

The code that identifies the extension.

No. of Hours

The number of hours the employee spent on the task. If the field changes, the Cost Amount field and the Sales Amount field are recalculated, as will the total amount of hours in this period. If the total amount of hours in this period exceeds the regular working hours of an employee (Employment), you are notified of this.

Currency

The currency.

This is the currency in which the cost is posted. For example, the project currency is the default currency.

Cost Rate

The cost rate for the transaction.

Cost Amount

The total costs. If you change the automatically generated cost amount, then the unit-cost rate is automatically adjusted.

Currency

The currency.

This is the currency in which the cost is posted. For example, the project currency the default.

Note: The contract line (CLIN) currency is the default currency used for the cost plus invoice lines. The sales amount on the billable cost lines is calculated based on the CLIN currency using the sales rate defined for the contract lines.

Sales Amount

The total sales amount.

If you change the automatically generated sales amount, the value of the Sales Rate field is automatically adjusted, as follows: Sales Rate = Sales Amount / No. of Hours

Registration Date

The transaction's date (voucher date).

Billable

If this check box is selected, the transaction is allowed to be invoiced to the customer.

Posting Type

The entry type shows both the origin of the transaction and the accounts on which the transaction posted to Financials is based.

Approved for Posting

If this check box is selected, the transaction can be processed in Financials and/or in the project history of Project . If errors are found that block the posting process, this check box is cleared.

Labor Type

If you change the value of this field, the cost rate is recalculated on the basis of the new surcharge percentage.

The formula is: New Cost Rate = Old Cost Rate * ( 1 + (Surcharge Percentage/100) )

Buy-from Business Partner

The buy-from business partner linked to the labor cost.

Invoice-from Business Partner

The invoice-to business partner linked to the labor cost.

Cost Component

The cost component associated with the cost object.

Note: You can only specify a cost component for which the Component Type is set to Detail or Collect in the Cost Components (tcmcs0148m000) session.