Maintaining Departments

Although multiple departments can give you additional information about different portions of your business, they take time to set up and maintain. For example, having three departments triples the size of your chart of accounts. If you use multiple departments, you might want to add even more accounts to the chart of accounts to generate additional information about your income and expenses. However, if departments are not properly maintained, the departmental totals on the income statement will be wrong.

Note: If you want to use multiple departments, we recommend that you set them up them during the going-online process. Although you can add departments after going live, doing so can adversely affect the quality of your historical data.

Adding Departments
Renaming Departments