Departments in AccountRight

Hi LMCob 

One option I often use where clients are already using Jobs for projects but also need to have Departments is to setup Departments as Job Headers. Then simply allocate your existing Jobs under the relevent Department header job. You may need to also have an Admin or Misc Job for each department each is allocated under the respective Department Job header. Remember you can have up to 4 levels of Job headers so this can be very powerful.

Once setup you simply allocate each line of each transaction to the relevent Job number and the Department is already attached. See:

• Use Job Headers to group similar Jobs together

One limitation is that you are not able to enter in monthly budgets by job/department however some of the MYOB addon solutions can help with this like our solution BI4Cloud Business Intelligence.

See 

• Using Jobs to run Departments or Cost Centres - With Monthly Job Budgets
• Ultimate Month end Job P&L - With Monthly Job Budgets

I hope that helps.