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Using cost allocations

Using cost allocations - Accubid Tutorial

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Using cost allocations

- [Narrator] When you're estimating in using software, one of the great advantages is the flawless math that software will do for you. Also, it's important that you're able to understand where all your costs lie in an estimate. Using cost allocations is a great way of doing that in Accubid. I'm going to pick on one of my estimates here and allocate some of my costs that probably haven't been done yet. Let me find one. Here's a school job. Pick a different database. Really doesn't matter because I'm not going to be entering too much. I'm just going to allocate. You'll notice this school has a bunch of different systems, probably not all used. Go to your breakdown screen. In the breakdown view, go to system, then right-click and reload. Here's all the systems that have entries in them. Lighting, wiring devices, fire alarm, sound and PA, and so on. As I scroll to the right, you'll see that there are some things that are not exactly allocated, although a lot of 'em are. We'll go to our…

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