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A cost entry’s detail page shows four tabs: Overview, Positions, Billing Periods, and Journal. Amounts, quantities, and terms hang exclusively on the positions—the entry itself carries none.

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List of Cost Entries

The list always refers to the current month; there is no period selection here. The Status column shows the status that follows from the terms of the positions. Delete is the only bulk action—editing happens only on the detail page. You can group the list by Status, as in every list; see Lists and filters.
For earlier months, switch to the Billing Periods tab on the cost entry—each period is listed separately, see Assigning Costs to Assets.

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Overview

Four figures relate to the current month: Running Cost / Month, Total Volume (amount across the whole term), Utilization (share of the assignable quantity that is assigned), and Unused / Month. Without positions, all four show a dash. Contract Number and Responsible can be edited here directly. The Supplier, however, sits on the individual position, not here—a framework contract can bundle services from different suppliers.

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Reading Positions

Running / Month shows a dash in the position list when a one-off position has no useful life—the amount itself is still recorded.

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Changeable Fields of a Position

Edit opens only a small part of the fields:
Cost type, category, billing cycle, start date, unit price, quantity, useful life, document numbers, and unit cannot be changed afterwards. A typo in the unit price or a quantity entered too low cannot be corrected through Edit.
The Term can only be extended through Edit, never shortened. Each value is the total term, not the additional period. For a shorter term, the only route is Duplicate—the copy offers every term of the billing cycle.
Duplicate takes over all values of the template; adjust what needs to change in the dialog, then delete the old position. Check the quantity before deleting—existing assignments hang on the position, not on its copy.
If a contract grows, an additional position through the Position button remains an alternative to the copy: it carries its own start date, while the existing position and its assignments stay untouched.

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Consequences of a Change

Positions determine the status and term of the cost entry and generate the monthly billing periods. Every creation, edit, duplication, and deletion rebuilds both.
Because billing periods come from the positions, Delete also affects their periods—including months already assigned. An expired contract does not need to be deleted: it counts as expired once its end date has passed.
Deleting several positions at once can partly fail: those already deleted stay deleted, and the message names the remaining positions.
Assigning Costs to Assets describes how you assign a position’s free units to assets and finalize a month.