3549031 - Project Expenses Posting Against Project Task Instead of Cost Center

When posting expense entries to a project task, the system is posting to the project task instead of the cost center.

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1. Go to Project Management work center.
2. Go to Projects view.
3. Search for project ID: AAA (AAA represents the project ID).
4. Project type: grant funded.
5. Under Products - Purchase Orders path, can see purchase order BBB (BBB represents the purchase order ID) , and if go to document flow, can see supplier invoice Journal Entry: CCC (CCC represents the journal entry ID). 
6. CCC is posted to project task instead of cost center.

Projects can collect costs and revenue as part of the business but posting to cost center or project task differs based on Business Process Variant of Project type (BPVT).

Customer has Externally Funded Project for reported project for public sector company.

Project is considered as cost object, hence it can post the journals against the project task instead of cost center except for overhead cost project (Cost Collecting Project). In overhead cost project all the cost are transferred from project task to cost center though settlement transaction as soon as transaction is created.

Project costs are only accounted to a cost center when the cost center is the primary cost object (Overhead Cost).

If need to charge direct cost project expenses to cost centers, Overhead Distribution function for projects can be used.

Create a distribution rule for a project task and allocate all the accumulated costs to the cost center/s based on business needs.

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