Defining ABC G/L Pools

G/L pools link your general ledger expense accounts to the ABC activity codes. The ABC Cost Calculation program uses G/L pools to determine your costs per activity.

Use G/L pools to identify the major types of expenses you want to track. For example, you might define the following pools:

Sales expenses
Administrative expenses
Warehouse expenses

Note: After you define the G/L pools, assign them to G/L expense accounts, along with the percentage of the G/L account balance to allocate to each pool. You will also need to assign the G/L pools to your activity codes.

To define a G/L pool:

From the Events > Activity Based Costing > Maintenance menu, select ABC G/L Pool Maintenance to display the Valid ABC G/L Pools screen.

Note: You must have ABC.MAINT authorization to access this screen.

Do any of the following, as needed:

To...	Do this...
add a G/L pool	Position the cursor on a blank line in the Codes field and enter a code to use to identify the G/L pool. In the Description field, enter a short description that identifies the code.
change a G/L pool code or description	Position the cursor on the code or description to change and type over the existing information or press Insert and add information.
delete a G/L pool	Position the cursor on the code and press Alt-Delete. Confirm the deletion when prompted.

Press Esc to save the information and exit the screen.