Maintaining general ledger cost centres

Modified on Mon, 20 Apr at 12:03 AM

Cost centres are used to group normal operating expenses for similar activities at your organisation.
Use General Ledger Cost Centre Maintenance to view and maintain cost centres at your organisation.
Also, see Accounting structure in the Accounting structure manual.

How to:

Search for a cost centre. See Searching for general ledger cost centres.
Create a new cost centre. See Creating new general ledger cost centres.

What you can do:

What you can do…	See…
Maintain: key description and tax details of a cost centre the staff member responsible for the cost centre.	Cost Centre Maintenance - General tab
Maintain the general ledger codes associated with the cost centre.	Cost Centre Maintenance - General Ledger tab
View a list of journals associated with the cost centre.	Cost Centre Maintenance - Journals tab
For a cost centre, view: movements in the budget actual income and expenditure against the budgeted amounts.	Cost Centre Maintenance - Budget/Actual tab
Maintain user-defined forms used within Cost Centre Maintenance.	Cost Centre Maintenance - User Forms tab
You can: view audit details of who created and maintained this cost centre add a comment about the cost centre.	Cost Centre Maintenance - Maint tab