Set up General Ledger Committees and Areas
You can use committees and areas to group accounts for reporting purposes and inquiries.
For instance, you may want to create a building committee so you can print reports that include only the accounts that the building committee needs to see.
Committees function identically to departments. An account can be assigned to a department, a committee, an area 1, or an area 2 but cannot be assigned to more than one of each. Departments, committees, and areas are not required.
Areas help you break down committees further. As an example of a committee, you can assign a Local Benevolence account to the Missions Department, a Benevolence Committee and the Senior Pastor (Under Area 1). These assignments determine whether or not the Local Benevolence account prints on a report when Department, Committee, or Area 1 is selected.
- Under Advanced Tools, click on the Define Lists tab.
- In the list, select General
Ledger and click Go
.
- Select Committees, Area 1, or Area 2, then click Add.
- Enter information in the Description and Code fields.
- To add additional committees or areas, select Add Another.
- Click OK.