Cost Type (Window ID-271)

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Window: Cost Type

Description: Maintain Cost Types

Help: You can define multiple cost types. A cost type selected in an Accounting Schema is used for accounting.

Tab: Cost Type

Description: Type of Cost (e.g. Current, Plan, Future)

Help: You can define multiple cost types. The cost type selected in an Accounting Schema is used for accounting.

Fields

Name	Description	Help	Technical Data
Tenant	Tenant for this installation.	A Tenant is a company or a legal entity. You cannot share data between Tenants.	M_CostType.AD_Client_ID numeric(10) Table Direct
Organization	Organizational entity within tenant	An organization is a unit of your tenant or legal entity - examples are store, department. You can share data between organizations.	M_CostType.AD_Org_ID numeric(10) Table Direct
Name	Alphanumeric identifier of the entity	The name of an entity (record) is used as an default search option in addition to the search key. The name is up to 60 characters in length.	M_CostType.Name character varying(60) String
Description	Optional short description of the record	A description is limited to 255 characters.	M_CostType.Description character varying(255) String
Comment/Help	Comment or Hint	The Help field contains a hint, comment or help about the use of this item.	M_CostType.Help character varying(2000) Text
Active	The record is active in the system	There are two methods of making records unavailable in the system: One is to delete the record, the other is to de-activate the record. A de-activated record is not available for selection, but available for reports. There are two reasons for de-activating and not deleting records: (1) The system requires the record for audit purposes. (2) The record is referenced by other records. E.g., you cannot delete a Business Partner, if there are invoices for this partner record existing. You de-activate the Business Partner and prevent that this record is used for future entries.	M_CostType.IsActive character(1) Yes-No