Setting up cost centre accounting in an SMB, where do I start?
Cost centres give insight into profitability per department, location or project. Start narrow with 5-8 centres, not 30, otherwise everyone burns out maintaining them.
Try this first
- 1Define why you want cost centres: per department, location, service, or market. A goal sharpens the scheme.
- 2Create 5 to 8 cost centres in your package (Exact, Twinfield, AFAS, Snelstart native, Moneybird and Yuki limited).
- 3Adjust booking rules so every cost and revenue entry gets a cost centre, otherwise you miss 30 percent of the insight.
- 4Train staff who book to apply cost centres consistently, and block entries without cost centre where possible.
- 5After 3 months pull a report per cost centre and check whether the split is enough or too much, then adjust.
When to bring us in
For a cost centre scheme that fits your growth and accountant, we can work it out.
See also
- Switching from Exact Online to Yuki, open items and history do not matchPackage migrations stumble on ledger mapping and open AR/AP. Without a mapping table you lose context.
- Twinfield to Exact, dimensions and cost centres go missingTwinfield uses dimensions, Exact uses cost centres and projects. The mapping is not one-to-one.
- Accountant asks for RGS mapping, your ledger does not follow RGSRGS is the Dutch standard chart that SBR filings and accountant software expect. Without mapping, every year-end is manual.
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