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title: "Creating or Importing Cost Centers"
description: "Cost centers that have been created for reporting entities in Consolidation & Financial Planning can be imported directly into Lease Accounting. This feature ensures that your financial and lease data are interconnected, allowing for more comprehensive reporting and analysis."
source_url: https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/lease-accounting/basic-configuration-lease-accounting/import-cost-center
language: en
last_updated: 2026-05-01
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# Creating or Importing Cost Centers

## Overview

**Cost centers** that have been created for reporting entities in **Consolidation & Financial Planning** can be imported directly into Lease Accounting. This feature ensures that your financial and lease data are interconnected, allowing for more comprehensive reporting and analysis.

> **Warning:** Users with a standalone license for **Lucanet Lease Accounting** can create cost centers directly within Lease Accounting, rather than importing them. This process is described in the last section of this article.

## The 'Cost Centers' Workspace

The **Cost Centers** workspace shows all the cost centers that have already been imported from Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning:

![The 'Cost Centers' workspace is displayed.](https://support.lucanet.com/assets/docs-images/lease-accounting/basic-configuration-lease-accounting/import-cost-center/_images/en/cost-centers-workspace.png)
The 'Cost Centers' Workspace

## Importing Cost Centers

To import cost centers from Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning:

1. Click **Import from CFP**. The **Import from CFP** dialog is displayed:

    !['Import from CFP' dialog](https://support.lucanet.com/assets/docs-images/lease-accounting/basic-configuration-lease-accounting/import-cost-center/_images/en/import_cost_center.png)
    'Import from CFP' dialog

2. Click **Import from CFP** to confirm the message and carry out the import.

    Once the cost centers have been imported from Consolidation & Financial Planning, the cost centers will be displayed in the overview table.

> **Warning:** To ensure that cost centers created or updated in Lucanet Consolidation & Financial Planning **at a later date** can be used in Lease Accounting, carry out a **new import** as described above.
>
> When another import run is executed, only those cost centers that have been created or updated since the last import will be added.

## Creating Cost Centers

Users with a standalone license for **Lucanet Lease Accounting** can create cost centers directly within Lease Accounting, rather than importing them.

To create a cost center in Lease Accounting:

1. Navigate to the **Cost Centers** workspace under **Settings** and click **\+ Add cost center.**

    ![The cost centers workspace is displayed.](https://support.lucanet.com/assets/docs-images/lease-accounting/basic-configuration-lease-accounting/import-cost-center/_images/en/add-cost-center.png)
    Adding a cost center

2. Specify whether the cost center is related to a reporting entity.

    If yes, a **Reporting entity** field will appear. Select a reporting entity from the drop-down list.

    ![A dialog 'Is the cost center related to a reporting entity' is displayed.](https://support.lucanet.com/assets/docs-images/lease-accounting/basic-configuration-lease-accounting/import-cost-center/_images/en/cost-center-related-re.png)
    Cost center related to a reporting entity

3. Enter the **name** of the cost center.

4. Click **Save,** then **Create** in the **Create Record** dialog to add the cost center.