Defining Adjustments › Overview

Overview

The Cbdefs options discussed in this chapter, like those in Chapter 4, are executed when you select Cbdefs from the CA PMA Chargeback Primary Panel's action bar by placing the cursor next to the Cbdefs keyword and pressing Enter. You see the same Cbdefs Pull-down.

While all of the choices are available to you, the following choices are not discussed in this chapter: Choices 1 through 7 are used in rate definition and are discussed in Chapter 8.

With CA PMA Chargeback you can perform adjustments such as Cost Recovery and Overhead Distribution when charging for resources, using the following Cbdefs options which are discussed in this chapter:

8

Cost Recovery (T)

9

Overhead Distribution

The following panel provides a table of the choices available to you when defining adjustments.

Cbdefs Pull-Down

  USERID                    CA PMA Chargeback                 MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS
  __    Acctdefs   Cbdefs   Query   Data   Period   Options   Exit   Help
        ________________________________
        |      CB Definitions          |     A 1-character field that allows
        |                              |     you to make a selection using a
        | _ 1. Charge Elements         |     mnemonic that can be either a
        |   2. Charge Units       (U)  |     number or the first letter of an
        |   3. Qualifiers              |     action. Notice that when actions
        |   4. Normalizer              |     have duplicate first letters, you
        |   5. Modifiers               |     can use either the number or the
        |   6. Split Job Charges       |     letter provided in the paren-
        |   7. Shift Chop         (B)  |     theses.
        |   8. Cost Recovery      (T)  |
        |   9. Overhead Distribution   |     You can also make your selection
        |------------------------------|     by tabbing the cursor next to the
        |                              |     action you want to perform and
        |   F12=Cancel                 |     pressing Enter.
        |______________________________|
 
 
 
 
  Command ===> ____________________________________________________________
  F1=Help  F3=Exit  F4=Prompt  F9=Command  F10=Action Bar  F12=Cancel  PA1=Susp

The following choices are discussed in this chapter:

8. Cost Recovery

Gives you the ability to recover costs for a specific resource and specify the recovery amount.

9. Overhead Distribution

Lets you distribute charges for a shared resource.

Both Cost Recovery and Overhead Distribution are performed after record summarization has occurred for the period in which you want these adjustments applied.

Adjustments operate on the actual charges found in CCCTAB not the units. This means that the charge may be the result of either a minimum or maximum charge being applied to a element rather than the charge being the product of charge units multiplied by the rate. Therefore, when an adjustment is applied, a new record is created in CCCTAB which may have values for the units and rate that when multiplied together do not equal the charge, but, the charge divided by the rate equals the units.