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200427112204400
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Wed Mar 04 17:09:05 UTC 2026
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Create and manage your Departments and Cost Centres
Description

Sometimes you need to analyse a group of employees, and the various parts of their pay. For example, to run a report that shows a breakdown of the wages across the different departments in your business.

To do this, create your departments and cost centres, then assign them to your employees.

NOTE:

You can only assign one cost centre and one department to each employee record. 

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Resolution

A benefit of assigning departments and cost centres is that you can then run reports that break down results for each of these. For help with finding a report visit our report finder article.

Find out how to assign these to your employees below.

Create a new Department or Cost Centre

  1. Go to Company, then Settings.
  2. Select the Analysis tab.
  3. Enter the required information in the Ref and Name boxes, then select OK.

Assign an individual employee

  1. Double-click the relevant employee, then select Analysis.
  2. Under Company Analysis, click the dropdown for department or cost centre, and click the one to assign.
  3. Select OK, then Save.

Assign a group of employees

  1. Select the required employees.
  2. Go to Tasks, then Global Changes.
  3. Select Departments, or Cost Centres.
  4. Click Assign Employee(s) to Department or Assign Employee(s) to Cost Centre.
  5. Select the department or cost centre you want to apply to the employees.
  6. Select OK, then Yes.
  7. Select OK.

Remove a department or cost centre from employees

  1. Select the relevant employees.
  2. Go to Tasks, then Global Changes.
  3. Select Departments, or Cost Centres.
  4. Click Assign Employee(s) to Department or Assign Employee(s) to Cost Centre.
  5. Select No Department or No Cost Centre.
  6. Select OK, then Yes.
  7. Click OK.

Delete a department or cost centre

  1. Go to Company, then Settings.
  2. Select Analysis, then select the department or cost centre to delete.
  3. Press F8 on the keyboard.
  4. Select Yes, then OK.

Nominal link

If you use the nominal link feature to post payroll values to Sage 50 Accounts, you can apply codes to departments. You can do this using overrides. Find out more in our Nominal link - Departmental and cost centre overrides article.

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