Using cost elements with e-timecard

In e-timecard, employees normally enter hours to a job, cost element, and earning code. If your company doesn’t require employees to enter cost elements, then you can configure e-timecard to not require them.

If you do require employees to enter cost elements, then e-timecard can validate them with hard or soft errors, or you can choose no validation. A hard error forces employees to change an invalid cost element before saving or submitting the time card. A soft error alerts employees to the error but lets them save the entry without correcting the error.

You set time card requirement options and validations in e-timecard Initialization.

You also make cost element settings in these places:

• In the earning code master, you can enter a default cost element that drills down to all employee earning codes. Also, you can select Use Employee Cost Element to tell e-timecard to use the employee record's cost element instead of the one in the earning code, even if the job defaults from the earning code.

• In the employee record, you can enter a cost element that defaults onto every time card line.

• In the employee earning code record, you can change the default cost element that comes from the earning code master.

• You can map cost elements to contract labor categories.

• In the job master, you select a cost element table to determine which cost elements are valid for the job.

• You can store default cost elements in job assignment codes.