Assigning additional costs to animals

Assigning additional costs to animals

A Cost Event allows you to record all costs incurred by any animals. 

Performing a Cost Event

1. Selecting Animals for Event

  1. Select the animal(s) for which the cost event is to be applied
  2. Select Events
  3. Select Costs
  4. Select OK


2. Enter the Cost Information 

You can enter cost information in one of 3 ways:

      A. Enter the Same Information for all Animals:
          Enter details into the default fields. 
  1. Default Amt. can be a Per Hd (per head) or a Total amount. If it's a Total amount, then it will be divided evenly amongst the selected animals
  2. The calculated price will appear in the spreadsheet
  3. You can add a Default Detail by clicking on the "+" button beside the dropdown list
  4. The Default Amt. can be calculated by entering a rate and multiplier e.g. $2 per day for 60 days = $120, in the Calculate default amount at the rate of section


      B. Enter Specific Details
  1. Enter specific details for each animal in the spreadsheet
  2. Any details entered in the spreadsheet will override these defaults
       C.  A Combination of Default and Specific details 
  1. If a particular column in the spreadsheet is empty for any animal, then the default value will be applied instead
  2. Click on the OK button to save or on Cancel/Exit button to abort the event
  1. Click Yes to the Confirm message:  "Are you sure you want to assign costs for displayed animals?"
  2. Click OK to the Information message: "Event Complete."

3. To undo a cost event 

  1. Select the animals in question 
  2. Select Events 
  3. Select Costs 
  4. Select Undo 



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