About Labor Cost Allocations

When labor cost allocation features are used in Trapeze OPS, the system allocates labor cost to general ledger accounts during timekeeping.

The system determines how to allocate labor costs by checking general ledger (GL) accounts in associated data. For example, when allocating costs for an FX run, the system checks whether one or more GL accounts are entered for the run.

GL accounts can be entered for many types of ancillary data, including payroll codes, absence types and run types.

You can also enter labor account allocations for specific employees, pieces of extra work, and extra pay records.

When the GL account number for a timekeeping record includes wildcard characters, OPS checks where to inherit parts of the labor account number. Parts of an account number can be inherited from work divisions, employee divisions, employee types, employees, or employee job types.

After the system determines the account or accounts for allocating labor costs, the system calculates the amount allocated to the account or accounts. If costs in a record are allocated to more than one account, the system makes sure that the distributed hours add up to the original PayTime value. Any adjustments due to rounding are allocated to the first GL account to which costs are allocated.