I am trying to understand the Jobs module using the CRONUS AU setup (no changes- out of the box)
What I am attempting is the following:
- A simple Fixed price job using the default SETTING UP Job Posting group.
- I have 1 Job posting line called Consulting
- I want this Job line to have 2 Job Planning Lines:
- 1 Billable for a GL entry that will be the fixed price amount *G/L Account 6620)
- 1 Budget for a resource for 40 hours
- I created a new G/L Account in the Sales of Jobs sub-ledger, and do not set the General Business Posting or General Production Posting groups. From the examples I have seen around the net this seems to be the way that all examples I have seen do it
- My issue is that using the out of the box setup, when I try to add the Job Planning line for the Billable entry for the G/L Account using the out of the box account suggested, I am getting the following error:
```
Validation Results
Gen. Prod. Posting Group must have a value in G/L Account: No.=6615. It cannot be zero or empty.
```
- Then add the general posting values to the G/L Account (for simplicity I use the out-of-the-box one of 6610 which to me seems wrong because that has the name of other job expenses), making sure that I use the out of the box ones (DOMESTIC/RETAIL)
- This then allows me to add the line, as well as create the Invoice, as well as calculate WIP and post the WIP to the G/L
- However, adding new Job Journal entries for the resource as Budget entries, then running Calculate WIP (this works) then Post WIP to G/L, I get the following error:
Gen. Posting Type must be equal to ' ' in G/L Account: No.=6620. The current value is 'Sale'.
I have a few questions
- Why won't the system let me create an Invoice from a Billable planning line unless the G/L account has the General Business and Product posting groups set on the G/L Account?
- If I do those posting groups set, why does it let me post the WIP to the G/L the first time, but when I add some resource cost at a later date does it give the above error?
I am tearing what is left of my hair out (FYI: I am not an accountant and I suspect that this is what is mucking me up)
Any suggestions/comments are TRULY appreciated
