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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

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