Applying Direct Costing
Wages
Open the Current Pay, select an employee, and click the Wages button to open the Wages window. Select a Wage line, click on that line's cost centre, and overtype it with the new cost centre.
If you wanted to make this a permanent change you would do it on the Standard Pay Wages window.
Allowances
By default, allowances paid to an employee are costed to their default cost centre. You have the option to:
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Change the cost centres in the Allowances masterfile, so that each allowance is costed to its own specific cost centre.
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Directly cost the allowance to a specific cost centre at the employee level. Open the Current Pay, select an employee, and click the Allowances button to open the Allowances window. Double-click on an Allowance line to edit it, and enter a new code into the Cost Centre field.
Salary
To direct cost salary to a cost centre other than the employee's default, open the Current Pay, select an employee, and click the Costing button to open the Proportional Costing window. Add a proportion of 100% and the cost centre you wish to assign to it. Now any salary costed to the employee's default cost centre will instead be costed as below. Because the ''proportion" is 100% you are in effect direct costing.
Leave
To direct cost leave to a cost centres other than the employee's default, you can:
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Assign a global leave default cost centre. From the Utilities menu, select Setup Payroll. On Setup Page 1, enter a cost centre code next to Holiday Pay, Sick Leave and/or Long Service.
To assign a global leave default cost centre for all other leave types (including Shift and Other leave), click the Leave Management Setup button and enter codes into the appropriate Default Cost Centre fields on the Leave Management Setup window.
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Change the employee's leave cost centre at the employee level so that any leave payments go to that employees leave cost centre rather than their standard default cost centre. Select Open Employee from the file menu and select an employee. Enter cost centres on the Holiday Pay tab and/or the Sick & Other Leave tab.
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Directly cost the leave in the chosen pay only. Open the Current Pay, select an employee, and click the Leave Management button to open the Leave Management window. Click the button for the appropriate leave type, then enter a new cost centre code in the Cost Centre field.