Understanding Job Cost Setup Requirements

Before you use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost, you should define information that will customize the system to your business needs. The system uses the information that you define to work with the jobs. This table lists the setup tasks associated with each feature:

Feature	Setup Task
Job Cost constants	Set up Job Cost constants to determine whether the system: Calculates projected final costs and unit quantities. Maintains an audit trail of changes to projected final cost and unit quantities. Maintains an audit trail of changes to budget information that relates to methods of computation A and R. Automatically relieves open commitments when you post accounts payable vouchers to the Account Ledger table (F0911) using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement or JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Subcontract Management.
AAIs	Set up AAIs to define the integration between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting.
RPO AAIs	Set up revenue performance obligation (RPO) AAIs to define the integration between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Job Cost and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting when working with revenue performance obligations
Next numbers	Use next numbers to assign numbers to items that must have unique numbers, such as draw reports. The Next Numbers program (P0002) determines how these numbers are assigned.
Draw next numbers	Use the draw next numbers feature to associate jobs with a draw next number. You specify the draw number for these jobs.
UDCs	Set up UDCs to customize the system to your company's specific business needs. You can set up a variety of UDCs, including codes for: Job categories Ledger types Account categories Units of measure Projected final business unit types Contract types Cost code master chart types Chart type edit fields Inquiry ledger types Profit recognition entries
Ledger type master	Job cost ledgers roll amounts forward to the next fiscal year when you perform the annual close. You can also set up the revised budget ledger types and the ledger types that you want to summarize and purge.
Chart types	Chart types and model jobs create standard cost code structure information that you can copy into the jobs and then modify for each job.