I created a Service item with the Expense account pointing to the correct cost of goods sold account.
I’ve tried four methods to get this to work:
- Time/Enter Single Activity for an Employee– selecting the applicable Job and the service item.
- Time/Enter Single Activity for an Other Name – selecting the applicable Job and the service item.
- For this particular job, time is charged at cost, so I tried simply adding the charge directly to the invoice, i.e. hours and selecting the Service item.
These three all work in every other respect except having the time appear in the COGS.
4. I tried a fourth option just to see that it would update COGS, even though I knew it would be impractical. I created a vendor referring to the employee name, added a bill from that entity, and it worked. However, this is impractical as this “vendor” is an employee and doesn’t get paid what the client is being charged and is compensated through the normal method – so I have a vendor that never gets paid, therefore impractical.
Pleased assist with ideas on how to make billable time appear in COGS.
