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4.1 Defining Cost Centers

CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Option uses cost centers to
determine how data is sorted and summarized for record
keeping and invoicing.  You must define the cost center
levels, COSTCTR1- COSTCTR9, to describe the operating units
in your organization.  Cost Centers are defined using the
Cost Center Definition option on the Parameter Specification
and Generation Menu (MWF;4;2;3;1).

To define the cost center levels, you must define the Cost
Center structure and code the Cost Routine.  The Cost Center
structure contains the number of cost center levels that you
wish to use and a description of each level.  The Cost
Routine contains a SAS routine to assign data to each cost
center level.

You can specify a Cost Center Identification Number to
control the number of cost center levels that can be entered
on the Cost Center Attribute Identification Data Entry Panel.

You can define Cost Center Validation Tables that can be used
to enter a list of valid values at a particular cost center
level (COSTCTRn).

Optionally, you can use the CA MICS Analyzer account codes to
define your cost centers.  CA MICS Analyzers sequence and
summarize stored data based on user-defined key fields called
account codes.  These account codes usually take the form of
cccACT1-cccACT9, where ccc is the CA MICS product identifier.
An exception is the CA MICS Batch and Operations Analyzer
(SMF), which uses ACCTNO1-ACCTNO9.

The following sections explain how to define your cost
centers:

 1 - Defining the Cost Center Structure
 2 - Modifying the Cost Center Structure
 3 - Assigning Cost Center Values
 4 - Modifying Cost Center Values
 5 - Specifying the Center Identification Number
 6 - Cost Center Validation Tables
 7 - Entering Cost Center Names and Addresses
 8 - Specifying the Cost Center Billing Status