Attribute

An attribute is a field that holds information that you can use to group records for reporting, inquiry, and processing. Specifically, attributes hold information about:

  • Activities for Project Accounting and Billing and Revenue Management

  • Transactions for General Ledger, Project Accounting, Billing and Revenue Management, Strategic Ledger, and Multi-Book Ledger

  • Accounting units and accounts for General Ledger, Inventory Control, Purchase Order

  • Customers for Accounts Receivable, Order Entry, Billing, Warehouse

  • Vendors for Accounts Payable, Invoice Matching, Purchase Order

  • Cash codes for Cash Management

  • Items for Inventory Control, Purchase Order, Order Entry, Warehouse, Production Order

  • Assets for Asset Management

  • Leases for Lease Management

  • User analyses for Strategic Ledger

Example: using attributes with cash codes

Moose Wood Outfitters wants to run a list of voided transactions for petty cash accounts (using the Bank History Report (CB220)). They define a cash code list that lets them select cash codes by the Petty Cash attribute.