Clicking the Cost Centres button displays a window where Cost Centres for the Project can be entered, viewed and changed.

Every Project must have at least one Cost Centre, because any Transactions analysed to a Project must also be analysed to a Cost Centre.

New Cost Centres will inherit the Status of the Project for which they are created. Cost Centres with a status of Estimate, Active or Reopened will appear in the Cost Centre pop-up lists, others will not. The status of a Cost Centre can be changed on the Cost Centre - Groups window.

When a Purchase, Purchase Order, or Debit VAT Journal Detail line that is analysed to a Costing Project is posted using a Partially- or Non-recoverable VAT Code, then the Non-recoverable VAT element is included in the cost posted to the Costing Project/ Cost Centre. This ensures that the Nominal Account reconciles back to the Project. See also the Partial Exemption VAT overview and the VAT Rate record topics.

This pull-down menu has five possible Subtotal Headings. In order to select or change the Sub-totalling, you must first click on Edit on the Cost Centre window. The name for each Subtotal is user definable in Load Current window.

These Subtotals can be assigned to each Cost Centre to provide a very easy means of grouping them together for searching and subtotalling reports. For example if the Project was a house, Subtotal 1 might be the Foundations, 2 the Walls, 3 the Roof, 4 the Finishing. These Subtotals can be used in addition to or as an alternative to the Groups feature.

The Detail popup displays a window that operates in the same way as the Difference window on the Project record. This allows scrutiny of each Cost Centre in greater detail.

This pull-down menu allows you to select whether to use a Resource Rate (the default) or a Fixed Skill Rate as the default for each of the Project Cost Centres.

The Cost Centre Resource Rate defaults to whatever is set on the Project Info window.

From this drop-down menu on the Cost Centres window, you can select the type of uplift to be applied:

You can enter a different uplift method and different uplift value for every Cost Centre. Negative values can be entered.

When in Edit mode, you are able to:

When in Edit mode, this displays a drop-down Menu of different time scales, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years. Each Cost Centre may have a different duration.

The Duplicate function allows you to create multiple Cost Centres within a existing Project.

Selecting this function opens a dialog where you should enter the number of Cost Centres you want to create; all information is then copied from the source record to each of the new records, with the exception of Code and Name which you will need to add for each of the new Cost Centres.

The Transactions ribbon button displays the Costing Cost Centre Transactions Enquiry window for the selected Cost Centre.

This Enquiry window does not display Sales type transactions as negative; the total shown on this Enquiry is for all transactions (Costs plus Sales).

Use the Filter options to limit the information to include only Costs, or only Sales, transactions. To do this, click the List Definition toolbar button to display the Enquiry Filter options in the bottom left part of the window. Select the transaction types you wish to view; de-select those you wish to exclude. Click Display to retrieve the required information.

Any Workflow Forms on the Record Window are displayed in a list pane at the bottom of the record window. If no WFF is attached to the record, the pane is not visible.