Cost center

A cost center is a business effect that gives rise to costs and to which they must be linked. It may include the total quantity of the same or related business effects. Final cost centers are business effects that are intended to be sold or included in the fixed assets of the same organization. Components, semi-finished products, and business effects intended to generate final business effects are referred to as temporary cost centers.

HINT In PANTHEON, cost centers are managed in the Cost centers register.

The Cost centers register allows you to easily group items of revenue, expenses, costs, invoices received and issued, customer and supplier orders, salaries and travel expenses based on the cost center ID in each of the listed documents or their lines. This way, you can effortlessly produce a performance analysis of a single sales item, a self-produced item or a project, depending on the purpose assigned to the cost centers.

The following examples are shown later in this chapter: