Workflow: Understanding and Entering Business Unit Assignments

Creating Divisions in Agency Setup, and making corresponding Department assignments is critical to establishing your agency's accounting and reporting structure in AMS360. All customers must be assigned to a division and department for their data to be saved.

In addition, based on the complexity of your agency operations, it may be desirable to use the additional business unit levels of Branch and/or Group, found in Agency Setup > Accounting Options, Business Unit Setup.

Each employee is assigned Division/Branch/Department/Group Security Access in Employee Setup that allows or restricts their access to customer records. Additions or changes to business units should be done with careful planning in order to limit possible adverse results. Review the sections below for more information: