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vgardner218
Level 1

Change Jobs to a Parent Child Relationship

Our Company runs a job costing system for all of our projects.  We had 4 separate jobs set up under a customer and all the transactions were recorded under each of the applicable 4 separate jobs.  Now we learn that the 4 separate jobs should have been the separate parts to the complete job.  We should have set up a parent job and them set up each of the 4 separate job numbers as children under the parent job.  This would have allowed us to roll up all the revenue and costs under the parent job.  Is there any way I can do this now that the jobs have been completed. 

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Ryan_M
Moderator

Change Jobs to a Parent Child Relationship

Hi @vgardner218,

 

Yes, you can change a job in a sub-account of a customer in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).

 

Let me show you how:

 

  1. Go to the Customers menu.
  2. Select Customer Center.
  3. Click the customer in question.
  4. Hover over the icon beside the job, then drag it under the customer in question.

I suggest you view this article: Customize customer, job, and sales reports in QuickBooks Desktop. It's a detailed guide on how you can customize job reports.

 

Tag me in your reply below if you have other questions about QBDT. I'll handle them for you as soon as I can. 

vgardner218
Level 1

Change Jobs to a Parent Child Relationship

Let me try to be a little more detailed.  The current set up I have is as follows:

 

Customer Name

    *  Job number 72767

    *  Job number 72890

    *  Job number 72891

    *  Job number 72892

 

The 4 job numbers are associated with each part of the final product that we fabricated for this customer.  Normally we would have established a job number (Parent) for the final product and the other 4 jobs would be the children and would roll up to the Parent.  The way this one was processed, each of the 4 jobs have expenses applied against them but the actual sales invoices were issued under the customer name.  The sales were properly recorded in the ledgers but this revenue is now not associated with these 4 jobs so I cannot run a profitability report and capture the sales revenue and the total of the expenses from the 4 jobs. 

 

What I want to do is get all of the sales revenue and expenses to roll up into one job.  This could be done under one to the existing 4 jobs or we could create a new job number.

 

ZackE
Moderator

Change Jobs to a Parent Child Relationship

Thanks for following up with the Community, vgardner218.
 

Since your revenue isn't showing correctly for this customer and their jobs, you'll want to work with an accounting professional to properly identify how you can show what you're wanting to see.
 

If you're in need of one, there's an awesome tool on our website called Find an Accountant. Each ProAdvisor listed there is QuickBooks-certified and able to provide helpful insights that can drive your business's success.


Here's how it works:

  1. Go to our Find an Accountant webpage.
  2. In the Find an expert in section, choose what you're looking for, then use your search field to enter a City or ZIP code.
  3. Click Search.
  4. Browse through the results and find one that works best for your business. You can access each ProAdvisor's profile to learn more information about them.


Once you've found an accounting professional, they can be contacted through their Send a message form:

  1. Use your available text box to introduce yourself. Be sure to include details about the services you're looking for.
  2. Enter the appropriate info in the Your name, Your email, and Your phone number (optional) fields.
  3. Select Send message.


You'll be able to find detailed information about working with customer jobs in our Tracking job costs resource.
 

I'll be here to help if there's any questions. Have a great day!

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