When you post an alternate to the estimate you can select whether to post the financial cost items.
Financial cost items from the alternate are not applied to the cost items in the estimate and financial cost items from the estimate are not applied to the cost items from the alternate. This allows you to apply the same financial cost item at a different rate in your alternate than your estimate. For example, you can add a financial cost item for profit to the estimate at 10% for all cost items, and add a financial cost item for profit to the alternate at 25% for all cost items.
If you added financial cost items to an alternate, you will need to include them when you post the alternate to the estimate if you want to include that cost in the estimate. If you select not to include the financial cost items when you post the alternate to the estimate, the financial cost items and the allocated amounts are not included in the estimate.
To open a job in the Manage Estimates screen, click in the All Tasks pane. Then select the job you want to open, and click OK.