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If you need this functionality, you can turn on Project Costing as a feature on the Administration > Settings > General Settings form Project Costing form. Once the functionality is turned on, you will be able to link to projects any related documents.
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For projects, you can specify how the material costs incurred for projects should be calculated. For this, you can use the Calculate Material Costs setting on the Administration > Settings > General Settings form Project Costing form.
You can select one of the following options:
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The actual costs are calculated according to the settings that are common for all projects and defined on the Administration > Settings > General Settings form Project Costing form.
While actual direct costs are calculated based on the documents that are linked to projects, indirect costs can be allocated by using Project Cost Allocations. To allocate the labor costs, overhead and indirect costs, you can manually select the documents and projects for allocation, specify percentages (or factors) and perform the allocation, or import an Excel spreadsheet with all the allocation data.
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