To use and report cost centres, please follow these steps:
- Select the company you wish to set up cost centres for in the Company screen.
- Click on the 'Cost/Depts' tab.
- Enter your cost centres in the cost centre grid. For example:
Code:
001 Dublin
002 Cork
003 Limerick
- Click 'Update Company' at the top of the company screen.
In the employee screen, a default cost centre drop down will now appear in the contact screen.
- For each employee in the employee screen, select their default cost centre. This is where costs incurred by this employee will be allocated unless otherwise assigned.
- Click 'Update employee'
Go to the Payroll screen.
You will now notice a new column in the elements grid called 'Cost Centre' (Between 'Description' and 'Unit')
- For each element in the element grid, select a cost centre using this drop down.
- Process the payments for the employees by clicking the Pay button.
Reporting cost centres.
- Go to the report screen.
- Select the 'Cost Centre Summary' report.
- Click 'Preview report'.
- The report will show all payments grouped and totalled by cost centre.