Financial control > Tracking financial information > Jobs
Header jobs total associated detail jobs (including detail sub-jobs). You cannot assign transactions to header jobs.
Detail jobs are assigned to transactions to track income, costs and expenses.
To create a header job
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Go to the Lists menu and choose Jobs. The Jobs List window appears.
2
Click New. The New Job window appears.
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Select Header Job and enter a job number, name and description.
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Click OK. The header job appears in the Jobs List window.
To create a detail job
1
Go to the Lists menu and choose Jobs. The Jobs List window appears.
2
Click New. The New Job window appears.
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Select Detail Job.
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In the Job Number field, type a code for the job and press Tab.
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If you are creating a sub-job, select a header job in the Sub-job Of list. Note that you can only assign detail jobs to header jobs, not to other detail jobs.
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Click OK. The Jobs List window reappears.
To enter opening balances for jobs
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Go to the Setup menu, choose Balances and then Job Opening Balances. The Job Opening Balances window appears.
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In the Job Number field, type or select the job for which you want to enter an opening balance.
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In the Opening Balances column, type the opening balances for each account.
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Repeat step 2 and step 3 for each job with an opening balance.
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Click OK when you have finished.
To enter budget amounts for jobs
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Go to the Lists menu and choose Jobs. The Jobs List window appears.
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Click Budgets. The Job Budgets by Account window appears, with the number of the job you selected in the Job Number field.
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In the Budgets column, type the amounts you’ve budgeted for specific accounts for this job and then click OK.

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