Create departments

Departments split your entries by business line or team, so you can follow the result of each.

Create a department

Departments belong to the Analytics module. If it isn’t on, turn it on under Settings, Modules: the Departments entry then appears.

1. Open Settings, then Departments, and click Add.
2. Enter a short Code, for example design. It can’t be changed later.
3. Enter a Label, the name that is displayed.
4. Optionally, set a Default account: the counter-account suggested for this department during bank imports.
5. Click Create.

The shared department

As soon as you have two or more departments, a Common option (shown as Shared in some views) becomes available in entries. Turnover and net-tax-rate VAT on a shared entry are split equally between the departments.

Where departments come in

• in every entry, whether imported or entered by hand;
• in tags on emails carrying invoices (see Receive invoices and receipts);
• during an import, when several transactions from the same supplier come up: ark.flow offers to apply the same department to the others.