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Introduction to the Object Register

FirstOffice supports the use of Objects, to allow your accounts to be classified and reported in several different categories or dimensions.

You can assign Objects to Customers and to individual Invoices and Nominal Ledger entries. When you assign an Object to a Customer, for example, FirstOffice will assign that Object automatically to all Invoices raised in the name of that Customer and to all Transactions generated from those Invoices. This gives you excellent possibilities to report for example sales per Object. In general, Objects are tools to improve the internal cost accounting capabilities in your business.

You can use Objects as selection criteria in many reports. If, for example, you have several profit centres in your business, and use Objects to separate income and expenditure for each of these, you can produce separate profit and loss statements for each profit centre.

Using Objects, it is simple to separate the transactions belonging to different Objects when producing reports such as profit and loss, key ratios, etc.

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You control the definition and use of Objects entirely. They are your own tools for your cost accounting.


All Objects in FirstOffice can span several years. This is a consequence of FirstOffice's continuous database, where the end of year is simply a user-defined reporting interval. Object balances are thus automatically transferred from one financial year to the next. This gives you the ability to keep track of the budget and results of an Object (e.g. a building project) for several years.

You can close an Object to prevent further use, by checking the Closed check box. If you want to open the Object again later, you simply click in the box again to remove the check.

Do try out the Objects and the different reports. This is an interesting way to get an insight into the status of the company - and there may be money to gain!