Costing is an optional feature thats allows you to track and report payroll costs in various categories called Cost Centres. The Costing features also allow the transfer of journals to a General Ledger (Accounting program), providing an electronic interface to your financial system.

Note: In Angling Adventures Ltd (Demo), costing is currently enabled

Setting Up Costing

Follow these steps to set up Costing:

1. For each cost centre that payments will be charged to, Add a new Cost Centre.
2. For each payment in your organisation, enter the appropriate Default Cost Centre.
3. For each person in your organisation, go to their personal file and set up their Cost Centre.
4. For each person, also enter the cost centre against every relevant item in their standard timesheet.
5. When you are processing a payroll, review the costing reports.
6. If you are interested in sending information to a financials program, or additional reporting options for costing deductions, please read the Account Code set up.

Costing Options

When you enter timesheets, a drop-down list of cost centres is displayed so you can easily pick the correct cost centre. However this can get unwieldy when you have lots of cost centres.

The Timesheet Input Method lets you change the timesheet entry page so that you can type in a cost centre instead of selecting it from the list. This can be much faster if you have lots of data entry. Using this option (called "Pop-Up Window"), you can still get a list of all cost centres by clicking the '...' link after the input box.