Cost centres are used by many screens throughout the system to allocate expenditure and costs. If you are running an integrated payroll and HR system, a costing interface is available to transfer the costing details to a nominal ledger or other costing system for analysis. If you are using the system for a HR function only, you may still want to allocate cost centres to pay elements. These details, however, can only be used for enquiry purposes to find out which cost centre a particular pay element is assigned to - you cannot use them in practice to calculate costing information.

Enables you to define the cost centres you require, or change the details of existing cost centres.

Note: This screen is not enabled in ResourceLink if FinanceLink integration is enabled; in this situation, cost codes are maintained in FinanceLink.

Note: If required, the Zellis implementation team can set the system to enable the creation of cost centre codes at any Cost Centre field in the system. When this has been done, if you enter a code at any Cost Centre field, and it has not previously been created via the Cost Centre Detail option, the system automatically creates it. The system attaches the description ‘Created From Screen’ to such codes. If required, you can then use the Cost Centre Detail option to assign an appropriate description.

Selection

Cost Centre Code

Enter the code of the cost centre that you want to maintain, or select one by clicking WINDOW to display Cost Centre Selection.

If the cost centre does not exist, a prompt is displayed allowing you to create the new cost centre.

Note: If your organisation uses cost codes prefixed by special symbols (–, @ and &), you can find an explanation of these in Field Template Maintenance.

General

Short, Long Description

Enter abbreviated and full descriptions respectively, to represent the cost centre throughout the system.

Obsolete Date

Enter the date on which this cost centre becomes obsolete.

Buttons

User Fields

Click this button to display Simple User-Defined Field Data if user-defined fields have been set up by your system administrator. These are extra fields used to record additional information that are specific to your organisation.

Notes

Click this button to display Maintain Note Detail, where you can enter any notes or comments you want to record.

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