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Rule 1
It is not allowed to create a cost center for less than two employees
Rule 2
An employee is assigned to one cost center only
Rule 3
Threshold of minimum amount per year of primary expense.
Recommendation: minimize the number of CC allocation
- For Production costs: allocation between organizational CC and another organizational CC
- For non Production costs: allocation from organizational CC to reporting CC
Exception
- Utilities
- Insurance (IAS 19)
- R&I: allocation from CC to WBS
- Intercos: from organizational CC to organizational CC other company

General rule:
- All type of expenses - different than Manufacturing Costs (Indirect/Direct) and R&I - go directly to BFC (at different reporting cost center) and to only 1 BFC heading.

General rule:
- “No pricing” rule: allocations between organizational cost center, within the same legal entity (same GBU normally, but could be also between 2 GBUs) should be done at cost.

General rule:
- Payroll expenses shouldn’t be posted to technical cost center if HR/Payroll system is integrated.
- An employee is assigned to only one cost center

General rule: A minimum level of detail is required for assessment to reporting cost center:
- For gross margin => Cost center reporting at “PIF” Level (see codification below)
- Below gross margin => Cost center reporting at “Division” level (see codification below)
- Below EBIT => Cost center reporting at “Company” level (see codification below)

General rules:
1. For GBU cross charge
- Change the cycle usage: evolution from actual amounts to planned amount
- Objective: anticipate the launch of cycles (from D2 to D-1) and reduce problems in D4
- Create and standard cost center for Cross charge (in order to align to method of CBS)
2. For CBS
- Create a specific Cost Section (160) for SBS invoicing
- Use case 1: to centralize primary costs for corporate needs (e.g.: Insurance, IAS 19…)
- Use case 2: to post costs not directly linked to the organizational structure (e.g.: other non recurring expenses)
- Use case 3: to collect the result of income miscellaneous (e.g.: sales of scrap…)
- Use case 4: if the organization cost is not defined in the Cost Section narrative
Reminder: in all cases, the request has to be approved by the Central Costing Expert after approved the request by GBU.

- Volumes of target CC
- High frequency (e.g.: every month) of update
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