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title: "What is Cost Allocation ?"
description: "Cost Allocation"
url: https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/tl/articles/133-what-is-cost-allocation
collection: "Payroll"
updated: 2024-04-12
language: tl
alternates: [en]
---

# What is Cost Allocation ?

Cost Allocation

**Cost allocation** is the process of allocating costs for processed [regular payroll](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/81-how-to-run-regular-payroll.md), [final pay](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/102-how-to-run-final-pay.md), [maternity pay](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/101-how-to-run-sss-maternity.md), [special pay](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/99-how-to-run-special-payroll.md), and 13th-month pay.

Payroll users in AanyaHR can effortlessly assign one or multiple cost centers, generate accounting reports, and extract journal entries for cost distribution.  
  
Create Cost Allocation?  
[Manually](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/134-how-to-create-cost-allocation-encoding-manually.md)  
[By Uploading](https://helpdesk.aanyahr.com/en/articles/143-how-to-create-cost-allocation-uploading.md)