Department

A Department is a unit of the company that employees belong to, such as Accounts, Sales or Operations, arranged as a tree with the company at the root. It is used by Employee records, leave approval and expense claim routing, and it has no accounts and no ledger effect. Like Branch, it can be exposed as an Accounting Dimension if you want departmental Profit and Loss without creating a cost center per department. The usual approach for a small business is cost centers for money and departments for people. Create departments before employees so each employee can be placed on creation.

1. 01Go to Setup > Department > New.
2. 02Type the name, pick the company and the parent department if it is a sub unit.
3. 03Save. Set it on each Employee record.
4. 04Optionally create an Accounting Dimension on Department for departmental reports.

Create under Setup > Department.

Accounts department.