Assets > Setup > Asset Cost Centers

Asset Cost Centers

You use this program to maintain the cost centers to which your assets are allocated.

Cost centers are defined within Asset Branches (Asset Branches) and may be used to integrate asset transactions to the General Ledger (General Ledger Integration).

A cost center must be defined against each asset (Assets).

The Browse on Asset Cost Centers listview displays the asset cost centers currently defined.

Asset Cost Center Maintenance

This screen is displayed when you select to add or change a cost center from the listview of the Browse on Asset Cost Centers program.

Field Value Description
File    
  Save Select this to save the information you entered.
  Save and Close Select this to save the information you entered and to return to the previous screen.
  Close Select this to return to the previous screen.
Edit    
  New Select this to add a new cost center to the current branch.
  Delete Select this to delete the currently displayed cost center.
New   Select this to add a new cost center to the current branch.
Delete   Select this to delete the currently displayed cost center.
Save   Select this to save the details you entered for the cost center.
Branch   This indicates the branch for the cost center you are currently maintaining.

Asset cost centres are defined within Asset branches, therefore before you can maintain Asset cost centre details, you need to indicate the Asset branch for those cost centres.

Cost center   This option enables you to indicate the cost center, within the selected branch, that you want to maintain.
Play   Select this to use the Multimedia program to view multimedia objects attached to the cost center.
Edit   Select this to use the Multimedia program to maintain multimedia objects for the cost center.

Asset Cost Center Details

Field Value Description
Asset Branch   This indicates the asset branch in which the cost center is being maintained.
Asset cost center   This indicates the cost center you entered.
Description   This is used to describe the cost center code.

Notes and warnings

Deletion considerations

  • Cost centers are deleted when the asset branch to which they are associated is deleted (Asset Cost Centers).

Inserting Application Help

You would typically follow this procedure to display help for the current program in a customized pane that can be pinned to the program window.

Information includes step-by-step instructions for the various functions available within the program, including a brief overview of what the program does, what setup options are required and how to personalize the program.

  1. Open the program for which you want to insert application help into a customized pane.

    This functionality is only available for a program that has panes.

  2. Right-click any form field.

    You can also click the triangle menu icon that appears in the title area of a pane.

  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

    The application help appears in a pane within your program. You can reposition the pane using the docking stickers or pin it to the program window.

Removing the Application Help pane

If you no longer want to display application help in a pane for your current program, you can simply remove it.

  1. Select the Close icon in the right-hand corner of the application help pane.

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.