Designating ledger accounts to accept departments

After you determine that your company is going to use departments to track income and expenses, you must designate which ledger accounts will accept departments.

Important! Before you create departments, you must designate ledger accounts to accept departments.

To designate ledger accounts to accept departments:

  1. Open 1-7 General Ledger Accounts.
  2. Open the account that you want to designate to accept departments.
  3. In the Subsidiary box drop-down menu, select 2-Departments and then click Save.
  4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 to designate other accounts.