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Dimensions — cost centres & projects

Dimensions let you track income and expenses across multiple analysis axes beyond the standard GL account. Assign a dimension to a journal line and Shillinq reports not just what was spent but where and for what.

Cost centres​

A cost centre (kostenplaats) is an organisational unit that incurs costs: a department, team, location, or service. Assign cost centres to expense lines when posting bills or journal entries.

Go to Bookkeeping → Cost centres to manage your cost centre hierarchy. Each centre can have a parent (for roll-up reporting) and a budget.

Kostendragers​

A kostendrager (cost object) is the activity or output that receives allocated costs. Where a cost centre asks "which department spent this?", a kostendrager asks "which product/service/project bears this cost?".

Typical use: you allocate shared overhead (rent, utilities, management salaries) from cost centres to kostendragers using allocation rules.

Projects​

Projects in Shillinq track revenue and costs for specific time-bounded activities — client projects, internal initiatives, or product launches. Each project can have:

  • A budget (per cost category)
  • Start and end dates
  • Team members assigned
  • Sub-tasks / project orders (projectopdrachten)

Go to Bookkeeping → Projects to create and manage projects. All bills, invoices, and journal lines can be tagged with a project for project P&L reporting.

Cost projects​

Cost projects are a simpler variant — just cost tracking without revenue or budgets. Use them for internal initiatives where you want to accumulate costs but don't invoice customers.

Allocation rules​

Allocation rules automatically distribute costs from one cost centre to others based on a chosen driver (headcount, square metres, revenue share, equal split). Shillinq runs the allocation rules at period-end and posts the resulting journal entries.

Go to Bookkeeping → Allocation rules to configure:

  • Source cost centre (where costs accumulate)
  • Destination cost centres (where costs are distributed)
  • Driver (the basis for splitting)
  • Frequency (monthly, quarterly)