Employee Payroll Cost Center Tab

This tab is available on the Employee Payroll window only if the Use Cost Center Overrides option is selected on the Payroll G/L Integration setup window.

You can use the Cost Center tab to specify a default set of General Ledger account segments to use to build a cost center for the employee when you post payroll data.

For information about the other tabs on the Employee Payroll window, view the topics below:

• General
• Class/Schd
• Pay
• Taxes
• Other
• Optional Fields
• EFT
• Garnishment
• Work Location
• Comments

To specify cost center segments

1. Choose which segments in the distribution accounts you want to replace with segments specific to this employee. The Segment Name column lists the segments selected on the Payroll G/L Integration window for building cost centers.
2. Enter the codes you want payroll to use to build the cost center for the employee.

For example, suppose you set up Department as a G/L segment name in G/L Options and defined the G/L segment codes for Department in the General Ledger program as 101, 202, 303, and 404. When you add an employee who will be assigned to department 303, at the Department field, click the Finder button and select 303.

You can narrow cost center posting even more when you Assign Earnings/Deductions to the employee, by specifying different segment codes for different earnings/deductions.

You can override the cost center segment codes for earnings and deductions when you enter timecards.