Schedule Subtask

Use this subtask to enter billing lines and amounts that display on standard bills based on your predetermined schedule.

After you set up this screen, these amounts are included on the bill when the invoice date from the Calculate Standard Bills screen is the same as, or later, than the Date To Bill column of the schedule. If you are using standard 1035 formats, you can enter a line description for each of the schedule amounts that print on the bill. If you are using a generic format, the line descriptions from the generic format screen are used as the line description on the bill. When you post the invoice, posting information such as the invoice number and the period of posting are updated on this screen.

Schedule amounts do not populate the Manage Open Billing Detail screen (OPEN_BILLING_DETL). They are inserted into the Manage Standard Bills screen (BILL_EDIT_DETL) with a transaction type of SCH. When these amounts are posted, schedule amounts are written to the Manage Billing History screen (BILLING_SUM and BILLING_DETL_HIST). Schedule amounts are not burdened by indirect cost pools nor are fees applied to them. In addition, they are not considered in cost ceiling calculations because they are not categorized as costs. They are, however, considered in total ceiling calculations for billing.

If you want to bill schedule amounts only, set up the project on the Setup Information tab on the main screen by selecting Unit Price Transactions Only in the Formula field. This prevents records from updating the Open Billing Detail table when transactions are posted.

If you entered an additional line for the same account but for a different subperiod, the amount is inserted on the same line as the earlier schedule amount if the line descriptions are identical. If the line descriptions are different, a separate line is inserted in the bill. 

You must enter amounts in the schedule before the bill is calculated if you want the amounts to display on the bill. In addition, the invoice date must be the same as, or later than, the Date To Bill to be included on the bill.

Contents

Field Description
Date To Bill

Enter, or click to select, the date on which this scheduled amount must be included on a bill. When the invoice date from the Calculate Standard Bills screen is the same as or later than the Date To Bill, the amount is included on the bill.

Currency

Enter, or click to select, the currency for the scheduled amount. The currency you select must be your company's functional currency or the project's billing currency. By default, this field displays the project's billing currency. If the billing currency is the same as the functional currency, this field is non-editable.

For a record with multiple billing lines, when you change the Billing Currency field on the Other Info tab, Costpoint updates only those records that have not been posted and with a currency not equal to the functional currency.

Note: This field is not enabled and defaults to the functional currency if you are not licensed for Multicurrency.
Amt To Bill

Enter the amount for this schedule item.

Account

Enter, or click to select, the account for this schedule amount.

Costpoint uses the account to determine where the schedule line displays in the bill. After checking the account number, Costpoint inserts the schedule amounts in chronological order based on the Line Heading on the Manage Generic Billing Formats screen and the Line Description in this screen. For bills using the 1035 format, Costpoint, after checking the account number, inserts the schedule amounts in alphabetical order based on the account name and the Line Description in this screen.

Account Name

This non-editable column displays the name of the account.

Line Description

Enter a line description, which prints on the bill, for this schedule amount.

Posted

This column displays the posted flag. When entering history rows, enter Y (Yes) in this column. When entering the schedule amount or any other new rows, enter N (No) in this column. After a bill is posted, this flag is Y (Yes).

Invoice No

This column displays the invoice number of the bill on which this schedule amount was included. This column is blank until the bill has been posted.

Fiscal Year

This non-editable column displays the fiscal year in which the bill was posted.

Period

This non-editable column displays the period in which the bill was posted.

Subperiod

This non-editable column displays the subperiod in which the bill was posted.