Cost History Analysis Settings

Date Range

Select the default range of dates to show on the chart.

Select All to show dates from the earliest cost session for the Bill of Materials.

Note:

The earliest cost session shown depends on whether you are viewing cost history analysis or actuals comparison charts:

If you are viewing cost history analysis:

The earliest date will be the earliest BOM planned cost for a specific or all BOM versions (depending on whether you select Show All Versions).

If you are viewing actuals comparison:

The earliest date will be the BOM planned cost for any version of the BOM. Works order dates are not taken into account.

Quantity

Select Quantity to determine that cost sessions in the Date Range are displayed, using a filter on quantity.

Select the default operator to use:

=	Equals
!=	Not Equals
<	Less Than
<=	Less Than or Equals
>	More Than
>=	More Than or Equals

When you view the cost analysis history, you can then enter the actual quantity you want to display. By default, the actual quantity displayed is the Default cost quantity on the BOM record Details tab.

Note:

If you are viewing cost history analysis, this value is taken from the BOM version the chart is launched from. This won't change, even if Show All Versions is selected.

If you are viewing actuals comparison, this value is taken from the BOM version the chart is launched from. However, all versions are always displayed.

Show Sub-Assembly Costings

Select the default setting for including sub-assembly costings in the costing analysis view. Sub-assembly costings result from costing a higher level BOM.

Note: You must have selected Always recost Sub-Assemblies on the BOM Settings Costing tab in order to view sub-assembly costings in the costing analysis view.

Runtime	Select this to default to the value selected for the Show Costings where used as a Sub-Assembly check box selection on the Costing tab on the BOM record.
Yes	Select if you always want to show sub-assembly costings.
No	Select if you do not want to show sub-assembly costings.

Show All Versions

Select the default setting for including cost sessions for all versions of the BOM when viewing costing analysis.

Note: When viewing actuals comparison, all BOM versions are automatically shown.

Runtime	Select this to default to the value selected for the Show All check box selection on the Costing tab on the BOM record.
Yes	Select if you always want to show all BOM versions.
No	Select if you do not want to show all BOM versions.

Show Unit Cost Inc. Overheads

This option is selected by default.

Clear this option if you do not want to display unit costs (including overheads).

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Show Unit Cost

Select this if you want to display unit costs but not overheads.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Show Sugg. Selling Price

Select this if you want to display the Suggested Selling Price.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Show Profit

Select this if you want to display the profit.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Colour Palette

Select the colours that you want to use for the display.

Note: You can only change the colours here. You cannot change the colours when you view the cost history analysis or the actuals comparison charts.

Show Point Labels

Select this if you want to put labels next to the points plotted on the charts.

Include Overheads

This option is selected by default.

Clear this option if you do not want to include overheads in the cost heading distribution chart.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Show values as

Choose whether to show the unit cost values as percentage or amount values.

Percentage is selected by default.

Choose Amount if you want to show actual calculated amounts.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.

Group By Type

This option is clear by default.

Select this option if you want to group by cost heading type, instead of by cost heading.

This is useful if you have several cost headings that belong to one cost heading type. For example, cutting and welding machines both belong to type, Machine.

Note: This setting only applies when you are viewing cost history analysis. It does not apply when you are viewing the actuals comparison chart.