Defining Statistical Accounts
General Ledger lets you maintain statistical as well as monetary balances for any account. However, in some cases you may want to set up separate accounts specifically for statistical information. For example, you might want to enter the units sold statistic in your Sales Revenue and Sales Expense accounts, but enter the square feet statistic in only a single account, say the SQFT account.
To define a statistical account:
- Set up your statistical accounts the same way you set up all other accounts. When you define your statistical accounts, you can also define cross-validation rules. This ensures that the combination of segments you enter is always valid. For example, you might decide that statistical accounts 9000-9025 should only be used with company 01 because these statistical accounts hold the headcount totals for each division in company 01 only.
