Use business services with expenses

Manage the relationships between business services and their expenses with allocation units and cost centers.

• Define a cost center
  Cost centers are a commonly used reference between financial systems and IT. Cost center records represent business entities, and have a related list of CI Cost Center Relationships that measure the cost center’s consumption of business services.

• Default allocation rule
  For every expense line generated for a business service, the default allocation rule Process Svc-CC Relationships will attempt to process the expense and create allocations for each cost center that is consuming the service.

• Define an allocation unit
  Allocation unit records define the capacity and usage of a business service.

Parent Topic:Cost Management