1. OVERVIEW › 1.3 Overview of Tailoring CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Option › 1.3.8 Prorating Specifications

1.3.8 Prorating Specifications

You can use prorating to distribute charges from one cost
center to one or more other cost centers based on a specified
percentage.  The original cost center is called the "prorate
from" cost center and defaults to the COSTCTR1 value.  The
new cost center is called the "prorate to" cost center and
also defaults to a COSTCTR1 value.  Prorating options and
exits allow you to override these defaults if necessary.

Prorating can be performed when the journal file is created,
or at the end of the month after the ledger file is created.
For complex-level external files, it is performed when the
charges are written to the Debit File.

In any case, you must create a table that specifies which
records to prorate, the new cost center values, and the
percentage of the original charges each new record is to
receive.  For example:

  Old Value   New Value   Percent
  ---------   ---------   -------

  OVHD        DEPT1        50.0
  OVHD        DEPT2        50.0
  SALES       NEWDEPT     100.0

You create the prorating table in the Prorating panel.  The
other prorating options are specified in the Accounting
Options, Rate Table, and Complex-Level External File panels.