Burdening and Reburdening Transactions
Burdening is the process of applying indirect costs, such as fringe, general and administrative, overhead, and so on to direct costs so that you can bill for the indirect costs. You create burdening transactions when you run the Create Burdening Transactions program (R52G11). This program uses records in the Account Ledger table to create records in the Burdening Detail Ledger table (F52G11).
The Workfile Generation program uses the records in the F52G11 table to populate the workfile so that you can bill for the burdening amounts. The system stores burdening transactions in the workfile in a similar manner to storing component transactions. The system populates the Component Code field with the burden category, assigns a component link, and populates the TC (transaction class) field with a value of 0. When a burdening transaction is associated with a workfile transaction, the system displays an X in the Burdening field for that workfile transaction on the Work With Workfile form. You use the Burdening Trans Inq (burdening transaction inquiry) option on the Row menu to view the burdening workfile transactions.
You create reburdening transactions when you run the Create Re-burdening Transactions program (R52G31). You run this program after making changes to your burdening setup to apply the changes and create reburdening transactions. To populate the workfile with the reburdening transactions, you run the Re-burdening Workfile Generation program (R52G41). The system populates the TC field with a value of H for the reburdening transactions.