Burden types (AC/BR/GM)

When you define burden rates, you specify a burden code, a burden pool number, and a burden type. There are two kinds of burden types: system-defined and user-defined.

System-defined burden types include Cost, Billing, and Revenue, and are used to populate burden cost, billing and revenue amounts in burden transactions. To define burden cost rates, you use the Cost burden type. In Billing and Revenue Management, you can use the Billing burden type to define burden rates to use for billing, and you can use the Revenue burden type to define burden rates to use for revenue recognition.

User-defined burden types are used to define rates for burden transactions that are calculated and stored in a separate file called ACBRDNADTR (UNIX/Windows) or DBACBAT (IBM i). These burden transactions are not posted to Project Accounting, but are available for analysis and reporting using a third party reporting tool. You can also use rates associated with user-defined burden types to recalculate burdens during Burden Rate Recalculation (AC198). You can have up to nine different user-defined burden types.