Special Projects for Labor Cross Charge

As part of Labor Cross Charge setup, you must create one or more projects to use with Labor Cross Charging, and associate them with each organization that uses Labor Cross Charging.

The journal entry and labor adjustment transactions use special projects to direct accounting entries to the correct organization's general ledger.

The special project's charge type, specified on the Accounting tab of the Projects hub (in the desktop application), must match the type of entry made for the project:

  • If the special project is used to move overhead, its charge type must be Overhead.
  • If the special project is used to move revenue, its charge type must be Regular.

Strategies

Enterprises typically use one of the following strategies to create each special project:

  • Create a unique project for each organization.
  • Create a unique project with multiple phases or tasks, one for each organization.

Naming Special Projects

Use ZZZ at the beginning of special project numbers created for Labor Cross Charging. This way, the special projects display at the end of search and lookup lists, separate from the rest of your projects.

For example, the Boston organization's special project might be numbered ZZZBOS.00.