Cost centres

Introduction

When you assign an employee to a cost centre, any subsequent benefits linked to that employee will be automatically tagged with the same cost centre. For example, if you manually input a benefit for an employee, the system will populate the corresponding cost centre for you. If necessary you have the option to override this.

To see the cost centres associated with a benefit, open the benefit and click the FBT button.

If you import or manually add a benefit for an employee, with a cost centre that is different to the cost centre in the Employees area in the system, there will be two separate cost centres associated with that employee. This may be what you want, for example, John belongs to cost centre 1000 but you want to charge a specific benefit to another cost centre, 4000. If that is not what you want or you later change your mind, you can use the Push cost centre function to reset the cost centre of the benefits to the current employee cost centre.

Push cost centres

There are two ways to push cost centres, depending on whether you want to push cost centres for a single benefit or multiple benefits in bulk, and if the benefits sit within the same category or not.

Push cost centres to one or more benefits in the same benefit category

1. On the Benefits page, click the relevant Quarter tab.
2. Click the benefit category that contains the benefits you want to push cost centres to.
3. Select the check boxes of the relevant benefits.
4. Click the Push Cost Centres button.

Push cost centres to all benefits in one or more benefit categories

1. On the Benefits page, click the relevant Quarter tab.
2. Select the check boxes of the relevant benefit categories.
3. Click the Push Cost Centres button.

View the cost centre report

The Cost Centre report displays the benefit value of all the cost centres in the system, both the default cost centres associated with employees and any other cost centres associated with individual benefits.