RE: setting up divisions

["Bill Mongan" <bmongan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Bob. Yes we do need to produce separate balance sheets, so we
believe that divisionalization is the way to go. But we do also understand
that the workload will increase.

We do have your MAPICS books, in particular the IFM book, which has some
material on financial divisions.  But are you aware of any other material?

So what is the detail flow, considering that we are on ISL. You mention the
COM customers and price books, but how do these relate to IFM
interdivisional transfer functionality? i.e. IFM trading partners and
Interdivision transfer function?   Are the 2 different ways of doing the
same thing?

Any more detail you have would be helpful.  Thanks.



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From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Bob Tenney
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:53 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: setting up divisions


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Bill, Here are some things you should consider:




When you do pricing in COM, you should set up a customer for each division
and then link these customers to price books that contain the inter-division
markups for your items. Once you do this, the correctly priced items flow
into
ISL and IFM.
Should you treat your Divisions as companies (or IFM Financial Divisions) or
as units within a single company? Setting up separate companies increases
your
administrative workload. Going this route makes sense if (1) You want or
need to
produce balance sheets for the divisions; or (2) You want to take advantage
of
certain MAPICS security features that are tied to the company. If these
conditions do not apply, then treating the divisions as separate customers
in
COM and separate units within IFM is the better choice.
Incidentally, if you have FRx installed, you can set up the divisions as
units within the same company and still produce balance sheets for these
units.
This is explained in Chapter 8 of my "FRx for Accountants"
book.

----- Original Message -----

From: Bill Mongan


To: mapics-l@midrange.com

Sent: 08/29/01 5:30:13 PM

Subject: setting up divisions





We are in the planning stages of setting up separate divisions for 2 of
our

businesses. I need to understand interdivisional transfer pricing
markups.

How is this handled?



We have ISL up and running - can it be handled within ISL? Is it done
within

IFM? or must COM, creating orders, etc. be used to charge transfer
pricing

markups?



Thanks for any insight into this issue, or any other tips relating to

setting up and operating divisions.



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