Finance ➔ General ledger ➔ Cost centers / units ➔ Report cost centres
Cost centers usually represent departments or divisions where the staff reside based on the skills they specialize in. Expenses incurred for a department should be allocated to the corresponding cost center. In order to check for a specific modification made to the cost center(s), you can generate an overview of the cost center. You can also verify the summary for a particular cost center or the general ledger account from the listed overview.
The information in this document is applicable to product update 410 and higher. If you have versions lower than this, certain features explained here will not be applicable.
Select the cost center report layout you want to generate. The available options are:
Select the required option to display the financial account type by Balance Sheet/Profit & Loss, Balance sheet, or P&L.
Select Date or Reporting date to display the financial overview by entry date or reporting date.
Type or select a general ledger account or range of general ledger accounts you want to display in the overview. Alternatively, select the All check box to display all general ledger accounts.
Type or select a cost center code or range of cost center codes you want to display in the overview. Alternatively, select the All check box to display all cost centers.
Select the required cost center category layout you want to display in the overview. The options available depend on the sub-categories you have defined within the cost center category. The default option is All.
Note: The default name is Cost Center Layout 1. The name varies depending on the cost center category name defined at System ? Finance ? Cost centres / units ? Categories. If you have not specified any sub-category in the selected cost center layout, you cannot view additional Cost Center Layout field(s).
Type or select a date or range of dates you want to display in the overview. Alternatively, select the All check box for all dates.
Select this check box to view the totals per period. You can also view the sub-totals for each respective general ledger account.
Select this check box to display all the entries which are yet to be processed.
Select this check box to display only general ledgers with mandatory cost centers and cost units. If you do not select the Cost center or Cost unit check box under the Cost centers/cost units tab at Finance ? General ledger ? Chart of G/L’s (for more information, see Creating and maintaining general ledger accounts), you cannot see the listing of the cost centers or cost units in the overview.
Select one of the following to indicate the required Group by option:
Select this option to group the overview based on the general ledger accounts.
Select this option to group the overview based on the cost centers.
Click this to display the overview of the cost centers based on the defined criteria.
Click this to exit.