Business Unit Setup

Before you can set up building information in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Real Estate Management system, you must set up the building as a business unit in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting system. You organize business units by business unit type. The business unit type that you assign to the building directly corresponds to the log standards that you can apply.

See Setting Up Logs and Legal Clauses.

You can set up relationships between parent and subordinate business units by using levels of detail. You can set up a hierarchy that includes up to nine levels. Level 1 is the least detailed level, and level 9 is the most detailed level. For example, you could set up a property (level 1) that consists of a retail mall (level 2), office building (level 2), and parking structure within the office building (level 9).

You can assign values for up to 30 category codes to define the parameters of the business unit that are important to the organization. For example, you could set up the category codes by region to specify that a property is located in the western region.

After you set up business unit information, you must set up the appropriate accounts to post billings. To expedite the process of setting up accounts, you can run the Copy Accts to Business Units program (P09804) and specify the range of accounts to copy from another business unit. You must set up accounts before you process billings; otherwise, the system generates errors.

See "Working with Journal Entries" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications General Accounting Implementation Guide.