The Cost Allocation area includes the following chain job. For detailed information on the job, refer to the associated run sheet in the CGI Advantage Cost Accounting Run Sheets guide.
Job Name |
Description |
Batch Catalog Section |
Cost Allocation Process |
The Cost Allocation Process is a group of jobs that work together in five different run modes – Offline Validation Mode, Base Accumulation Mode, Compute Allocation Mode, Generate Transaction Mode and Reversal Mode. The purpose of the Cost Allocation Process is to allocate indirect costs to the appropriate entities. Indirect costs are initially recorded to ‘pool’ entities. The Cost Allocation Process then allocates those costs on a dollar-by-dollar basis to ‘base’ entities. Those indirect costs may subsequently be eligible for reimbursement by various funding agencies. The Cost Allocation Process is one of two methods that can be used to record indirect costs. The Cost Allocation Process will also perform Charge Back processing, where additional expenditures and expense credits will be posted to the system based on the selected expenditures. Refer to the "Running the Cost Allocation Process" topic for more information. |
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Cost Allocation Multi Process Import |
This cost allocation process is a copy of the primary Cost Allocation Process but with a job step that splits up the XML file of transactions into multiple spawned instances of the Multi-Threaded Transaction Loader (see Utilities job folder). This type of run is more efficient than the traditional load and submit job steps for when the volume of transactions is very large. Refer to the "Running the Cost Allocation Process" topic for more information. |
CA |
Labor Additive |
The Labor Additive process updates Pool Base Setup and Distribution records of an existing Cost Allocation, Series and Step ID to facilitate accounting for expense credit to fringe accounting distributions in the same proportion as originally charged as part of payroll. This process only updates the cost allocation setup. The cost allocation will in turn use the Charge Back processing, where additional expenditures (to projects and grants) and expense credits (original fringe accounting distributions) will be posted to the system to record additive based on the selected expenditures. |
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Labor Cost Distribution Load to Cost Allocation |
The Labor Cost Distribution Load to Cost Allocation chain is a group of jobs that work together to automatically modify various Cost Allocation configurations based on the latest time and labor distribution information available in Labor Cost Distribution History (referred to as LCDH, please note this is not a page code) produced from Advantage payroll processing. The process will perform updates to the following Cost Allocation configurations: Statistical Units (STAT), Pool/Base Setup (PLBS), and Pool/Base Distribution (PBDIST). This process allows the allocations costs on a department-wide basis (the most prevalent method) and also on a specified Chart of Account breakdown (element) basis, as defined in the COA Breakdown parameter. |
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