Station AccountCategoryIndex

Creating Account Category

This page is only visible for Skylogistix local administrator / Skylogistix global administrator roles. You will need to create an Account category when the airline has decided to clasify their items under a new category. Creating Account categories is expected to be an sporadic task. It is important that to create new account categories in Skylog, they should be already created in the Airline finance systems to avoid Interface issues.

The Account categories are assigned to stock items on the drop down list of GL Account Category on the Edit stock item page.

To create a new Account Category you should take the add icon from the Cost Centre Category page.

You will get the following pop up

Where,

• Airline: You will be presented a drop down list if your user has authorization for multiple airlines.

• Code: Defined by the user, this code will be displayed in the drop down list of GL Account Category on the Edit stock item page.

• Description – Defined by the user, expanded information

• Profit & Loss Account code – Refer to the item category accounting code where the expenses - costs should be posted against. Expenses may be posted for example for consumption (based on stations inventory counts), warehouse stock adjustments and shipments losses.

• Balance sheet Account code – Refer to the item category accounting code where the inventory value should be posted against. Accounting postings may include goods receipts to a warehouse, shipments from warehouse to stations, RMAs from station to station or from station to warehouse. Also when there is consumption against a location, credit postings may be done to deduct stock from the balance sheet

• GL Cost centre – This is an optional field, when all the costs are linked to an specific Cost centre. Depending on the Interfaces with the financial system it can have different purposes of use.

• Particular to fixed assets? – Most airlines consider trolleys as fixed assets, and therefore behave different from the rest of the products, in general P&L transaction types are not posted for fixed assets, only Balance sheet movements.

Once all fields have been completed, click SAVE