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Overhead Allocation Settings

Before your enterprise uses the Overhead Allocation feature, you must enter and define certain company-wide information that all projects use. Use the Overhead Allocation form in Accounting Settings to establish overhead allocation controls for your company.

Overhead Allocation and Reporting

Overhead Allocation is the process of distributing indirect costs to revenue producing contracts. After indirect costs are distributed, the revenue from contracts supports the total cost of doing business. Overhead is calculated when you run Overhead Allocation or when you close a period. When you allocate overhead, Vantagepoint does not make any entries in your general ledger; it is included on project reports to better reflect profitability.

You can run overhead allocation on a company-wide basis or by organization. Note that when more than one accounting period is open and overhead needs to be run in a prior period, you cannot run Overhead Allocation in the new period. This prevents artificially high overhead figures from appearing on new reports.

Overhead Allocation Settings

Use Overhead Allocation settings to control how overhead expenses are allocated. Overhead expenses are all items charged to an indirect expense account (700.00 - 799.99).

If you allocate overhead on a company-wide basis when organizations are established in your database, you treat the entire company as one organization. For example, you choose assignment or proration as the allocation method; you choose labor or revenue as the allocation base, and you set up an overhead variance project number (if using the assignment method) to store any difference between actual and applied overhead.

If your enterprise uses multiple companies, you must set up overhead allocation for each company.

To change the active company in the browser application, click the name of the current company on the toolbar and select a company from the drop-down list. To change the active company in the desktop application, select Utilities > Change Company and then select a company on the Company Selection dialog box.