Accounting › Product Costing
Cost Components
A cost of 42.60 is not analysable. Split into material, labour, machine, setup and overhead it tells a plant manager which of the five to attack.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Cost Components
Address in the console: /accounting/cost-components
List · 7 columns · 9 fields on its form · 2 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Seq | Number | sequence_no |
| Component | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Inventoriable | Yes or no | is_inventoriable |
| In cost of sales | Yes or no | is_cogs |
| Splits fixed/variable | Yes or no | splits_fixed_variable |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Sequence | Number | ||
| Inventoriable | Yes or no | Some overhead is inventoriable and some is not — the difference between a compliant balance sheet and a wrong one. | |
| Part of cost of sales | Yes or no | ||
| Splits fixed and variable | Yes or no | ||
| Colour | Colour | ||
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| Description | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.