Understanding Cost Code Structures

After you create a job master record, you must assign a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost code structure to it. You use cost code structures to track, manage, and report on the amounts, quantities, budgets, and other account information associated with the jobs. The cost code structure is the chart of accounts that is related to the specific job. These accounts might also be viewed as tasks that relate to the job. The cost code structure serves the same purpose for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost that the chart of accounts serves for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting.

You organize cost code structures by chart type, which is a user-defined code (UDC) (51/TC). To create a cost code structure, you add cost codes and cost types to the chart type. The system uses the chart type as the template from which you copy the cost structure to a job or to another chart type. For example, you might have a chart type that is set up to track costs associated with the research and development of a project and another to track the costs to manufacture a product. Rather than create a new cost code structure for the new chart type, you can copy the cost code structure from another chart type and revise it as necessary.