How to Move Costs from One Project to Another

Document Overview 
- Moving posted costs from one project to another project 
- This is useful when needing to reallocate fees or moving costs 

1. Job Costing 

2. Transactions 

3. Enter Cost Transaction 

4. Click Create Batch 

5. The batch number will auto-populate and be tied to the user’s name 

6. Complete the fields under the Transaction Section: 

1. Post Date: Date/month desired for entry to post 

2. Journal: Type of journal entry being posted (most job-related entries will be JC) 

3. Source: Where the entry is generating from (short version) 

4. Source Desc: Detailed information pertaining to the source 

5. Reference: Job number, “tax”, etc. 

6. Reference Desc: Details about the entry (billing info, City/County Sales tax rate, etc.) 

7. Ref Date: Posting date (today’s date) 

Helpful Tip: The information entered in items c. - g. above should be the same information in the Job Detail Transaction Log for consistency.   

7. Under the Detail Section: 

1. Insert a line item for each entry needed (two lines will be inserted in this example) 

2. Enter Type: J = Job Cost Entry, G = General Ledger Entry 

3. Company: Enter the company number in which the project resides  

4. Job/Dept/Eqp/WO: most of the time this is the project number 

5. Phase/Compon/Acc/WI: this information is obtained from either the AP Voucher GL Distribution, or CMiC Project Field  

6. Cat/Tran/Exp: This is information is obtained from the same places as Cost Codes 

7. Debit = will increase the account being posted to  

8. Credit = will decrease the account being posted to 

8. Click Save 
    

9. Click Print Edit List 

10. Click Print 

 
Sample Report Below will generate. Review for accuracy.  

11. Click Post Transactions 

12. Ensure “Print Reports Immediately” is the only box checked 

13. Click Post 

14. Click Run Report