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Project completion costs not routing to COGS

  • August 12, 2026
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Hello.

 

When we financially complete a project, costs are being booked to the original expense accounts instead of COGS. This is causing an account mismatch against the reversal of revenue recognition, which is booking to COGS. 

 

For example, assume account 7000 is supplies and account 5000 is COGS.  If we purchased supplies worth $10 and tagged it to a project, then that $10 initially hits account 7000 then eventually hits WIP. Then when revenue recognition is run, it hits account 5000 COGS. The following period, the rev rec reverses and it hits WIP And COGS. But when the project is financially completed, the posting hits WIP and account 7000 instead of COGS. So there would be a credit in account 5000 but a debit in account 7000, so there is a mismatch.

 

Is there a way to route cost postings from financial project completion to COGS instead of the original expense account? I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

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HI, 

On the financial project, note the section for reposting rule.  

The reposting rule is to identify where the asset (Project cost) is posted when the project is completed.   No rule, we post back to the original accounts (labor, material, other).   It only affects the cost side (CIP side) and the rev always posts back to rev. 

Although not asked, a common use case is send all cost to CIP, then when project completion create a fixed asset value.   Same process but in your case, it appears you want this to go to a single cogs account.  Reposting rule does that. 

Reposting rule can be added to the finance project, or at project completion enter the reposting rule at that time.  Reposting rule is good functionality but often misunderstood. 

Best regards, 

Thomas