Overhead refers to a continuing cost of operating a business. Overhead usually groups expenses that are necessary to the continued functioning of the business, but that do not directly generate profits, such as accounting, advertising, depreciation, indirect labor, insurance, interest, legal fees, rent, repairs, supplies, taxes, telephone, travel, and utilities.

Set up overhead rates to associate with overhead groups. Overhead rates and groups add costs to a transaction to account for an organization’s overhead expenses.

Set up overhead rates to associate with overhead groups. Overhead rates and groups add costs to a transaction to account for an organization’s overhead expenses.

Access this browse from Finance|Overhead|Overhead Rates. Use it to organize and display records, to access supporting functions, and to edit or create new records.

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Use New to open the overhead record detail to create a record.

Use Edit to open the overhead record detail to edit the selected record.

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Use overhead groups to recover overhead expenses from operational cost centers and departments.

You can apply overhead groups (composed of overhead rates) to part issue and labor posting transactions. Overhead rates can be fixed monetary unit amounts or percentages of the total transaction cost. Build as many overhead rates and overhead groups as you need. You can set default overhead groups per site, part, and employee. You control whether users can modify overhead groups on transaction screens.

Access this browse from Finance|Overhead|Overhead Groups. Use it to organize and display records, to access supporting functions, and to edit or create new records.

The right-click menu contains administrative functions and options from the Action menu.