Setting Up Cost Centers

Before you create your cost center records, verify that you have defined and activated the cost center segment of your account numbers. See "Planning Account Segmentation" and See "Maintaining Account Segments".

1. Click SETUP on the Main Menu screen and then click COST CENTERS on the Maintain Ledger Settings screen that appears. The Maintain Cost Centers screen opens with all cost centers displayed in a table.
2. Click on the toolbar. The Add Project Wizard is initiated.
3. Enter a cost center code and description to identify the new cost center.

Note: The cost center code is your agency’s code to identify this cost center. It appears as the cost center segment of any account number to which you assign it. It must be unique and must meet the criteria (the number of characters and whether letters and/or numbers are allowed) set by your agency for the cost center segment of your account numbers. See "Planning Account Segmentation"

4. Enter the number of units in the cost center. The program uses this number to make PUM calculations.
5. Click START to continue.
6. Review and confirm the cost center information you have set up and click FINISH to save and add the cost center. The Maintain Cost Centers screen appears again with the newly added cost center highlighted in the table.

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