Primary Cost Center

Description

The Primary Cost Center is an organizational unit of a company, at which costs arise that are related to an operational business purpose. For these Primary Cost Centers, FACTON calculates Overhead Rates that are required for the price calculation of single products or cost objects in further calculation progress.

Primary Cost Centers of an industrial company are, e.g. material management, manufacturing and sales.

Further information, see: Build a Overhead Rate Calculation

Examples

Material cost center
Research and development cost center
Sales cost center

Insertion positions

Primary cost centers can be inserted under the following calculation elements:

Calculation Element	Should Costing
Overhead Rate Calculation	x

Unit

Primary cost centers have the unit »currency«.

Properties

You can find the basic properties of the primary cost center in the Details view.