Why when assigning services are some suborgs assigned CAP coded services, while others are O/H or ISF?
We generally will assign all General City overhead to a CAP service in the Indirect Module (such things as City Manager and Finance). Department overhead (i.e. department heads and department clerical staff) will general get assigned as an O/H service in the Overhead Module. And internal services that are directly charged to departments, such as Information Services or Vehicle Maintenance, will generally be set up as an ISF service in the Internal Services Module. Now with all of that said, it is up to you how you actually set it up. You can set up everything as a CAP center if you want to. The important distinction is how the costs get spread. A CAP service allocates the cost based on a specific allocation factor which has re-allocations between departments with CAP services. An ISF has a specific allocation factor but does not do the multiple step re-allocations that a CAP service does. And an O/H service merely creates a percent by dividing the O/H cost over the salaries for the aff
