Accounting › Product Costing
Costing Variants
Where the material price comes from. The same bill of material costed at standard, moving average and last purchase price gives three different answers and all three are defensible.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Planning & Control
- Section: Product Costing
- Screen: Costing Variants
Address in the console: /accounting/costing-variants
List · 7 columns · 12 fields on its form · 3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Variant | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Material price | Status | material_price_source |
| Activity rate | Status | activity_price_source |
| Explodes | Yes or no | explode_subassemblies |
| Overhead | Yes or no | include_overhead |
| 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 | ||
| Material price source required | Choice | standard, moving_average, last_purchase, planned_price, purchase_info, future_price, lowest | |
| Activity rate source | Choice | plan, actual, forecast, manual | |
| Explode sub-assemblies | Yes or no | ||
| Take a released standard where one exists | Yes or no | What makes a rollup fast and a cost trail readable. | |
| Include scrap allowance | Yes or no | ||
| Include setup | Yes or no | ||
| Include overhead | Yes or no | ||
| Overhead key | Text | ||
| 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.