Cost Centres

  • Cost centres are used to report against different parts of your organisation. "Cost centre" is a posting attribute.

  • Cost Centre: This is the cost centre code. It should be short and capitalized, this is a unique reference field.

  • Description: This is the name of the cost centre.

  • Cost centres can be assigned to unique legal entities.

  • Legacy reference: This identifies previous codes under the cost centre names.

Resources

  • You can select resource(s) within cost centres to default the cost centre field for resources upon document entry.

Order of evaluation

  • Document header:

    • Fixed contact account (customer / supplier)
    • Fixed account setup (chart of account rules)
    • User entered value / saved value
    • Contact account default
    • Default account setup (chart of account rules)

  • Document detail lines:

    • Fixed contact account (customer / supplier)
    • Fixed product
    • Fixed project
    • User enter value / saved value
    • User default settings
    • Product default (accounting)
    • Project default
    • Contact account default
    • Document header default