Accountant's Assistant Handbook

Payroll departments 
 Choose 
Setup / Payroll Departments. 
Use the Departments dialog to add any departments the client will need. 
CBS groups employees into departments for payroll functions. The client 
can set up as many as 9,999 departments per company.  
 
You must set up at least one department before you can transfer data 
from CSA and Accountant’s Assistant to CBS. When you create a new 
CSA client, the program automatically adds a “Default Department,” but 
if you add departments you may delete the Default Department. 
The noncalculating payroll features in CBS CheckWriter allow each 
employee to be assigned to only one department (the Home department). 
Any employees set up in CSA with multiple departments will transfer to 
CBS with only the home department. Data entry for noncalculating 
payroll data in CBS CheckWriter uses fixed descriptions, so you don’t 
need to customize department setup. Department information retrieved 
from CBS CheckWriter into Accountant’s Assistant is limited to the GL 
account number. 

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Client Setup in CSA 
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Note: Starting with CBS version 2006.3.1, you can set up your client’s 
CheckWriter payroll (noncalculating payroll) such that the client can see 
detailed payroll item descriptions (instead of the default descriptions) in 
the payroll check entry window and the Setup / View NCP Payroll 
Departments dialog. To do this, mark the Enable Payroll Item 
Descriptions checkbox on the CheckWriter tab of the Setup / 
Miscellaneous Information dialog in Accountant’s Assistant. 
CBS PayCheck allows the client to specify multiple departments for each 
employee.