Hi eemc,
Many thanks for the example provided.
Here a couple of comments:
1. If you post the salary expense this way, you might get into trouble because people can identify the salary of others, which is something most companies want to avoid.
2. It seems that you want to allocate costs to projects. Rather than using the cost accounting module or ledger allocation rules, I would recommend using the timesheet functionality in the project module.
Why?
a) Because the timesheet functionality gives you a better insight into what people are working on (project 1-section2, project 3 - section 1, etc.)
b) In addition, posting timesheets automatically creates a cost allocation voucher in the form:
DR: CostAccount-ProjectFinDim-SectionFindim
CR: Payroll allocation-CostCenterEmployeeFinDim
You can thus see how much costs remain on the cost center of the employee and how much costs are 'moved' to projects by a simple account analysis
An additional advantage of doing that is that you can quickly identify over/underutilization of people simply by checking how much money remains on their cost center.
Also the integrity remains because nobody can directly see the salary of a specific employee.
c) If you use the project module for time related cost postings only, then the setup is very 'small' and can be completed in a very short period of time.
Best regards,
Ludwig
