How To: Consignments - Amortisation of Costs

There are two methods of adding costs into a consignment that can be used to amortise the costs against the stock items. You can use either method or a mixture of the two:

1. Default Costs
2. SP Ledger entries

Once the costs have been added the total amount can be amortised using the Level 2 Stock Type, see How To: Consignments - Amortisation of Costs Against Stock Types.

Note: Amortising consignments costs against the stock value of the items booked in against the consignment will only work if the Stock Value Calculation Method is set to Average.

Note: applying the amortised costs against the stock overheads will not work on stock items with a zero stock value.

Default Costs

• Default Costs are displayed within the top Grid of the [ Consignments | Detail | Costs ] tab and are applied automatically when a Consignment is created.
• Default costs are set up in [ System Data | Consignments | Default Costs ] but they can be amended, added to or deleted in the [ Consignment | Detail | Costs ] screen.
• If you have set them up they will appear in the top grid in the [ Consignment | Detail | Costs ] screen. The Description, Net Value and Notes for the default costs can be edited within this screen. The user can also use the or buttons to the left of the Grid to add a new cost to the consignment or to delete a cost from the consignment.
  Note: this does not alter the default costs and a newly created Consignment would have the default costs set up in [ System Data | Consignments | Default Costs ] applied automatically.
• Default costs are not linked directly to the accounts but can be used when you wish to spread the cost of an invoice across several consignments.

SP Ledger entries

SP Ledger entries must be created and posted before they can be added to a consignment. They are added to the consignment using the second grid down within the [ Consignments | Detail | Costs ] tab.

1. Open a Consignment screen (show me how).
2. Use the search filters to locate the Consignment to be edited.
3. Double click on the Consignment and click on the [ Consignments | Detail | Costs ] tab.
4. Click the New Item button to the left of the SP Ledger Entries Grid.
5. Use the search filters in the dialog to find the required SP Ledger item.
6. Focus on the SP Ledger item.
7. Click OK to add it into the grid.
8. Repeat the above steps to add additional SP Ledger items.
9. When all the required entries have been added click on OK.

See Also

• Consignments Overview
• Volumetric Consignments
• Purchasing Overview