Financial control > Tracking financial information > Departments
[AccountEdge Plus and Network Edition only] The Departmental Accounting feature gives you the ability to track financial profitability within your business by department. You can now assign a single department or multiple departments per transaction.
A new preference has been added to the System Preferences enabling you to turn on the feature. Once the feature is activated, Departments can be allocated to the following transaction types:
You can also assign a department to all cards in the card details section. This will give you the abililty to keepseperate lists of cards by departments while keeping all cards part of the same larger list.
To enable allocation of departments
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Select I Use Departments; if Departments Are Not Assigned to All P&L Accounts Don’t Warn/Warn [System-Wide].
note : Turning off department tracking deletes all departments and all related information
If you choose to turn off department tracking, any departments you have created and their transaction history will be deleted from your company file. You should make a backup of your company file before you take this step so that you can access this information if required.
To create a department
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Click New. The Department Information window appears.
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In the Department ID field, enter up to a 5 alpha-numeric characters used to identify the department then press tab.
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If you want to enter a description of the department or notes related to the department you can enter up to 1000 characters in the Description field.
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Click OK.
To assign a department to a card
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Select a card and click Edit. The Card Information window appears.
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Click OK.

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