Cost center overview

Cost centers are folders that group accounts. Each cost center can hold one or more accounts.

You can nest cost centers to match your organization's financial structure.

To restrict user access, assign them one or more topmost cost centers. Users will only see data within those cost centers and nothing above them in the hierarchy.

You cannot edit your topmost place, cost center, or site.

For the example shown below, if your topmost place is Government, you can't change any of the properties for the Government cost center.

account tree

Creating a hierarchy lets you quickly view subtotaled use, cost, and trends.

Reports

You can download popular configured reports (quick reports) without leaving the Accounts module.

The filters used to create the report are listed on the last report page and set for you when you use Configure Advanced Options.

Create a cost center

Permissions

A report of user roles and their permissions is available for download on the Users and Roles page.

Custom user roles are created by administrators.