In order to use jobs to track your "profit centers," you'll enter information about the job and assign a job number to the job. You'll then enter the job number on transactions to track the net profit (loss) for the job.
You can set a preference to display a reminder that one or more lines on a transaction has no job assigned to it, if you wish. After you receive the reminder, you'll have the option of recording the transaction without assigning a job or returning to the transaction and assigning a job. (System view of the Preferences window
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