Settlement & Allocation
Cost collected on a collector has to reach where it belongs before the period can close, and an indirect cost center’s cost has to reach a productive one.
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Settlement Rules
Where cost on a collector goes, and in what proportion. A period closed over unsettled orders leaves cost stranded forever.
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Settlement Runs
Cost moved off collectors to where it belongs. Anything the rules do not apportion is reported rather than silently stranded.
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Allocation Cycles
Distribution keeps the original cost element; assessment rolls it into one secondary element. The first is honest, the second is readable, and every controlling department argues about which.
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Allocation Segments
Who sends, who receives, and what splits between them. Anything less than a 100% sender share leaves a residue on the sender, which is sometimes right and usually a mistake.
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Fixed Allocation Split
Where a driver is not appropriate: 40% to production, 35% to sales, 25% to admin, because that is what the board agreed.
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Allocation Runs
A residue above the threshold means the iteration gave up before converging, and the cost left over is stranded on the sender — so the run says so rather than letting it disappear.
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Cost Drivers
What causes the cost. Headcount and floor area are statistical keys; purchase orders raised, setups performed and inspections carried out are activity-based drivers.
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Driver Values
The driver’s value per receiver per period — a statistical key by any other name.
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