The G/L Department File Maintenance screen is used to establish General Ledger account destinations for the revenue, cost-of-goods-sold and other charges for work orders.

The system creates the link automatically when work order "type" is entered as a required field in the Work Order Entry screen. Because "type" is linked with a "department" in the Work Order Type Maintenance screen, departments are tied to work orders.

While it is convenient (based on the default of work order type) to charge an entire work order to one G/L department, it is possible to enter a different G/L department on each line of the work order for Labor, Material and Other charges. This allows you to charge labor sales to different G/L codes for supervisors and general laborers.