Departments and sub-departments

[irenasobolewska]

I want to use departments with SAGE 50 Accounts Professional 2008. I also have sub-departments and don't know whether to create each sub-department as a department or whether to make them projects, or is there some other method I should use. As an example we run two conferences per year. I have a conference department but want to assign income and expenditure for conference 1 and conference 2 separately.

The ultimate aim is to to be able to print out p&l reports by sub-department. Can you help me decide how I should treat these sub-departments so I can make this work.

[hilton icecream]

I used to still use the departments for this, e.g. use conference as dept 100 and then use 101, 102, etc for sub departments

[brucedenney]

You can run the financails reports for a range of departments, subsidiary departments do not exist in Sage, however you can get a similar effect,

Assume you have up to 10 subsidary departments.

Use dept 010 - 019 for the ten subsidiary depts of dept 1 and then reporting on 010-019 will give you the total for dept 1