Cost centres and cost units

In Visma eAccounting Smart, you can use cost centres and cost units. A cost centre is used to monitor your activities at a more detailed level by posting costs and income to a unit or fixed asset. If you have a truck for which you want to see exactly what costs and income it generates, you can do this using cost centres.

You can use up to three cost centres in the program. Each cost centre must be given a name. Under each cost centre, you specify the cost units associated with the centre that you want to monitor. When you have activated and added the cost centres and cost units you want to use, they are automatically available when you create new journal entries or invoices.

Below are some examples of how to work with cost centres in different parts of the program.

You purchase e.g. fuel, which must be posted as a cost for a machine. The purchase invoice must be registered and the cost divided up between the cost centres you registered.

Read more in the topic Register purchase invoice.

You make a purchase with a receipt, where the cost must be posted on a cost centre. The receipt must be registered and the cost divided up between the relevant cost units.

Read more in the topic Match outgoing payments manually.

You sell a service, where the income must be posted on a cost centre. You create the sales invoice and divide up the income between the cost units you choose to register.

Read more in the topic Create sales invoice.

You need to create a manual journal entry where cost centres are used. Read more in the topic Create manual journal entry and Correcting cost centre, project or transaction texts.