Option to "Track Expenses By Job" Doesn't Appear

Hello. I am learning Quickbooks 2005.

I am following along with a tutorial that instructs me to select "Track Expenses by Job" when setting up a Payroll Item. This option does not appear, however, in the "Add New Payroll Item" window.

I have selected both "Job Costing, Class Item and Tracking" and "Use Class Tracking" in the Preferences.

Why do I not see this option?

Thanks, Jessi

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JessiRight77
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Jobs are linked to customers. Go to the Customer window, select a customer, then create a job.

Now the other Job features will be available.

gennif

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gennif

Which "edition" of QuickBooks? Job costing is not available in QB Basic, only in the Pro and Premier editions (and Enterprise if it's available in your country).

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!-!

I am learning Quickbooks Pro 2005.

The tutorial concerned how to create payroll items for Employees, and the particular example concerned paying an employee on a commission basis (piecework), so their work for the customer needs to be tracked in order to calculate their commission.

I created the payroll item, but the tutorial also shows a "Track Expenses by Job" checkbox that should be selected on the setup screen underneath the field where you enter "Name used in paychecks and payroll reports." This checkbox option does NOT appear in my Quickbooks, however.

Gennif... I had already created two jobs for a customer before I attempted to setup the payroll item. Are you saying that I should have enabled a certain feature when creating the customer's job that somehow links to the payroll item?

Thanks for your help! Jessi

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JessiRight77

Are you sure the tutorial is not referencing the use of Time Tracking? This feature is under Employees and allows for customer/job assignment. I have

2005 Acct Edition and I just setup a test commission item and a test employee and found no "track expenses by job" dialog in any of the windows. However, in the the compensation/pay drop-down, from inside the employee setup window, there is an option to use the timesheet.
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Tee

It's not true/great job costing but the basic version does allow you to create multiple jobs to a customer. Then in the Enter Bill and Write Cheque screens there is a column to track the expense to the customer/job.

Then you pull up the report ->Company reports --> Income by Customer Detail. For this report to work the expense has to be dated the same date as the invoice it applies to. This gives you a Gross profit (Gross sales minus COGS) per customer.

gennif

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gennif

Thanks for your help, guys. Although I am using Quickbooks Pro 2005, my tutorial is based on Quickbooks Pro 2001. It could be that the procedure for this feature has changed. I will finish working through the tutorial, and then maybe I will understand it better; if not, I'll post back!

Thanks again, Jessi

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JessiRight77

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