Up to now, we've discussed SA types associated with service agreements linked to your customers. The system has also been designed to keep track of the expenses associated with your company's use of power. If you want the system to do this, you must create at least one SA type for each service consumed by your organization.

For example, if we assume your organization consumes electric, gas, and water service; your SA types will now be as follows:

Notice the three company usage SA types do not reference an A/R account as their distribution code. This is because when bill segments are created for these types of service agreements, the system must debit an expense account (or contra-revenue account) rather than a receivable account.

Also notice we introduced a new column - Bill Segment Type. Notice that the customer-oriented SA types use the SP-RATED bill segment type and the company usage SA types use the COMPUSAG bill segment type. Different bill segment types are necessary because company usage SA types use a different algorithm to calculate their bill segment's financial transaction algorithm because they don't affect either payoff or current balance.