If you use one of the Periodic Costing options available in Oracle Cost Management to record costs of goods that you order, you need to allocate other charges (Tax, Freight, and Miscellaneous) to other invoice distributions that are matched to receipts. When a distribution is matched to a receipt, the distribution and any tax, freight, or miscellaneous distributions that are allocated to it are included in the cost of the receipt.

Allocating Tax, Freight, and Miscellaneous for Periodic Costing

Prerequisite

• The invoice is not yet accounted.

To allocate an existing tax, freight, or miscellaneous charge to another distribution:

1. In the Invoices window, enter all basic invoice information. See: Entering Basic Invoices.

2. Enter the tax, freight, or miscellaneous charge distributions that you want to allocate to the matched distributions by using a Distribution Set, or manual entry. Enter invoice distributions by matching to a receipt.

3. In the Distributions window select the Tax, Freight, or Miscellaneous distribution that you want to allocate to a receipt-matched distribution.

   Note: The selected distribution record must be a Freight, Miscellaneous, or Tax distribution that has not been matched to a receipt, or you cannot perform this step properly.

   Choose the Allocate button. Payables opens the Charge Allocations window and displays all distributions to which you can allocate the charge.

4. In the Charge Allocations window, Payables displays in the top region the distribution Type and Charge Amount.

5. Select the distributions to which you want to allocate the charge by checking the check box to the left of the receipt line.

   Suggestion: You can use the Select/Unselect All button as a toggle to select or deselect all eligible distributions.

6. Indicate the amounts of the allocation by using one of the following methods. You can either prorate the allocation amount to all selected distributions, or enter a specific charge amount for each selected distribution:

   • To prorate the charge amount to all selected distributions in Allocate window, click the Prorate button.

   • To specify the allocation amounts, enter a Charge Amount for each selected distribution. The sum of the Charge Amounts must equal the tax, freight, or miscellaneous charge amount you entered in the Amount field.

7. Choose OK to have Payables allocate the Charge Amount to the selected the distributions and close the window.