General Ledger - Cost Pool Calculation

Overview

The Cost Pool Calculation screen is available to run the cost pool calculation process for all or selected Cost Pool Groups for which Cost Pools have been defined in the Setup >> Cost Pool Groups screen.  The calculation process can be run one or many times for a given Legal Entity, Cost Pool Group, Fiscal Period.  The resulting allocated amounts (and optional actual indirect cost rates) are available for viewing and potentially posting to the General Ledger (and optionally the rates to the Cost Structure >> Indirect Cost Rates).  

If your system has multi-entity accounting enabled (see Setup Multi-Entity), and your cost pool has multiple legal entities, then the calculation will be performed simultaneously against all legal entities in the cost pool.

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator, GL Admin

License

This screen is available with the Project Financials family of Unanet licenses.

 

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Search

Using the Search screen, you can refine the list of Legal Entity / Cost Pool Group / Fiscal Period with which you would like to initiate a cost pool calculation.  

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

 


List

The resulting list of Cost Pool Groups may include entries that are available for cost pool calculation as well as those that have been previously posted (and thus unavailable for re-calculation unless their previous post had been voided).  Depending on whether you've selected to include Actuals and/or GL Budgets (in the Calculation Options), you see one or both of the sections on the List screen.

Using the leading checkboxes, you can identify which entries to include in the calculation process.  These entries can have their cost pools calculated and re-calculated as many times as you like until such time that the results have been posted (via the Cost Pool Calculation List screen).

To initiate a calculation process, select one or many Cost Pool Groups from this screen and click on the Calculate button.

 

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

 

 

 


Calculation Process

 

Eligibility for cost pool groups

 

Eligibility for cost pools

 

Eligible transactions for cost pool Pool (Numerator)

 

Eligible transactions for cost pool Base (Denominator)

 

Budget Calculation Note:

When calculating Budgets, the calculation period spans from the beginning to end of a fiscal year, regardless of Calculation Period: MTD or YTD.  Also note that if the Base Calculation Method is defined as 'Hours' in any cost pools for the cost pool group, or if the Budget is not of type Income Statement, the calculation process will ignore that particular budget (with an appropriate message).

 

Calculate Process

 

See Cost Pool Calculation List - View Details to see the detailed entries generated during a successful 'Calculate' process.


Calculation Process - Feedback

Once the calculation is run, the user will see feedback written to the screen that will indicate the cost pools included in the process.  Should any unexpected issues be encountered, additional details will be written to the screen for the affected cost pools.  Note that any cost pools that encounter an error during the calculation process would result in no calculations being saved.  Other cost pools within that same run that did not encounter issues would have their results saved.

 

Buttons

From this feedback screen you can navigate to one of two places depending on the button you click:

 

 

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