Cost Estimates
Explode the bill of material, price it, walk the routing, apply the overhead. Released, the estimate becomes the standard — and a standard that can be edited makes every variance since January a fiction.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Cost Estimates
Address in the console: /accounting/cost-estimates
Read-only list · 13 columns · 2 actions
This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estimate | Code | estimate_no |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Name | Text | item_name |
| Variant | Code | variant_code |
| Type | Status | estimate_type |
| Lot size | Number | lot_size |
| Unit cost | Amount | unit_cost |
| Previous | Amount | previous_unit_cost |
| Change % | Number | cost_change_pct |
| Material % | Number | material_share_pct |
| Lines | Number | line_count |
| Exceptions | Number | exception_count |
| Status | Status | status |
What you can do here
Cost an item primary
Asks for: Item* Costing variant Lot size Costing date Type
Release as standard primary
Supersedes the old standard and revalues the stock it re-prices.
Asks for confirmation: Release this estimate as the standard and revalue stock?
* required
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.