The system provides a comprehensive range of costing data as an integral part of the payroll system, and you can define the costing rules for the whole system. Pay elements have their own costing rules, and every employee can be allocated a number of cost codes, providing you with cost allocation on a pro rata basis.

The costing interface enables your organisation to extract costing details to a file for transfer to a nominal ledger or costing system.

The timing of processing depends on settings in Tax Period Set Calendar. The Cost Transfer Date and Cost Batch Date fields in this screen specify when costs are transferred each pay period. The current settings of these fields are displayed on the Set Current Tax Period screen, so that you know when to start processing.

Before using the costing interface, you must set up cost codes, their parameters and rules.

The following costing interface options are available: