Common Accounting Tutorials |
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Description: How to Handle In-House Expenses.
In each of the cases discussed in the Determining How To Handle In-House Expenses section of the manual, you are basically entering a zero dollar transaction.
For example, if you entered internal prints in the purchase journal you would create a zero dollar transaction against and in-house vendor. You would then enter line items against various transactions. There are two methods:
| • | Zero cost against projects and general ledger |
| • | Cost against general ledger and projects |
Method #1 |
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In this method you would establish expense codes with a flat billing amount with a zero cost rate (Fig.1). You would then simply enter the quantity of prints (Fig.3). The extended amount would be zero (Fig.3).
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Method #2 |
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In this method you would enter a quantity and some estimated unit rate. The extended cost amount would be the quantity times the unit rate (Fig.4).
After charging all the required projects you would then enter a negative amount for the running total against an overhead G/L account (Fig.5).
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