!!!DEFINE COST ACCOUNTS

Cost Accounts allow you to establish a ‘list’ of either pay components or distributions masks to be used to group budgeted information together on the View Budget Amounts ([IFVP])screen.

A cost account may be a single pay component, a combination of pay components or distribution masks.

The Define Cost Account definition data is maintained in the [P2K_FC_COST_ACCOUNTS] and [P2K_FC_COST_ACCOUNT_DETAILS] tables.

;[Cost Account|COST_ACCOUNT_CODE]:This field shows the unique user-defined code for the cost account.
;[Type|COST_ACCOUNT_TYPE]:This lexicon defines the ‘type’ of cost account  being defined.
*Financial
*Statistical
;[Description|DESCRIPTION]:This field provides a short description of the cost account.
;[Operator|ACCOUNT_OPERATOR]:This field allows you to define if the value is to be added or subtracted to the cost center.
*Add
*Subtract
;[Distribution Mask|DISTRIBUTION_MASK]:This field defines the distribution mask associated with this cost account.
;[PC Code|PC_CODE]:This field defines the pay component code associated with this cost account.
;[Pay Component|PAY_COMPONENTS]:This field displays the pay component associated this cost account.\\Information for the Pay Components field will default in once the PC Code field has been filled.