What accounting options should I set for liquidation of purchase order burden encumbrance obligations?

You must first enable budgetary control by using the Manage Budgetary Control or Manage Encumbrance Accounting task from the Setup and Maintenance work area.

To liquidate the burden encumbrance associated with purchase order obligations during accounting of project expenditures, you must enable one of the following options in the Burden Cost Accounting Options section on the Edit Project Type page for the project type to which your project belongs.

  • Create burden cost accounting journal entries

  • Create burdened cost accounting journal entries