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Use the General tab to maintain:

  • key description and tax details of a cost centre
  • the staff member responsible for the cost centre.

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titleOpening the General tab

To open the General tab:

  1. Select Module > General Ledger > Cost Centre Maintenance from the main menu.
    The Set Cost Centre Search Criteria window is displayed.
    Tip: You can also access General Ledger functions by clicking  .
  2. Search for the general ledger cost centre.
    The General tab of the Cost Centre Maintenance window is displayed.


Cost Centre Maintenance - General tab key fields and buttons

Fields

Field

Description

Description

Description of the cost centre code.

Staff ID

Staff member responsible for this cost centre.

G/L Division

The general ledger division for this cost centre.

Tax Code

Tax code that applies to this cost centre.

Automatically create G/L Codes using this Cost Centre

Select if you want this cost centre code to be used to create new general ledger accounts, whenever a new chart of account code is added. See Creating new GL chart of accounts codes

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If selected, this cost centre is active.
Note: This field is not editable. To change the cost centre's active status, use the buttons described below.

Buttons

Button

Description

Update all the general ledger descriptions for all general ledger records that have this cost centre code.
This is only required if the description of the cost centre is changed. It will automatically change all G/L accounts containing the old description so that they have this new description.

Make the cost centre not active.
Note: This button is only visible if the cost centre is active.

Make the cost centre active.
Note: This button is only visible if the cost centre is not active.

Depending on the position of the button, launch into Staff Maintenance or Division Maintenance.