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title: "Create/Maintain Analysis Codes for Accounts"
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Once you attach an Analysis code to a General Ledger account, the system keeps track of the transactions typed against that code in the General Ledger transaction details. You can report on each of these codes to give you a more detailed analysis of each account. For example, you might have General Ledger account codes for Miscellaneous Motor Vehicle Expenses, Petrol and Motor Vehicle Insurance. You could append to each account an Analysis code for each of the vehicles (For example: Registration Number of each vehicle) and then report on the total expenses for a particular vehicle. Analysis Codes To create or maintain Analysis Codes for use in conjunction with any General Ledger account, perform the following: 1. From the  ProStix Main Menu  select ' General Ledger ' then ' File Maintenance ' then ' Analysis Codes '. 2. If required, select the relevant company from the  'Select Company'  screen. 3. The 'Analysis Codes' screen displays analysis codes that have already been set up. If not were previously defined you are automatically put into 'Add' mode as per point 4. below. 4. To Add a new code, select <F6> (Add), then complete the following details: 5. Continue adding further analysis codes or select <F4> (Exit). 6. To Change an analysis code, select <F7> and adjust the details as per the descriptions above. 7. To Delete an analysis code, select <F5>. Analysis Accounts This program allows you to establish the link between a General Ledger account and one or more Analysis codes. In order to establish this link, you must have first set up the required Analysis codes as described above. These links that you define are used by the General Ledger Reporting programs as a means of grouping expenses of a particular Analysis Code. To  establish the link between a General Ledger account and one or more Analysis codes , perform the following: 1. From the  ProStix Main Menu  select ' General Ledger ' then ' File Maintenance ' then ' Analysis Accounts '. 2. If required, select the relevant company from the  'Select Company'  screen. 3. The 'Select Account' screen lists all the existing General Ledger accounts that are linked to Analysis Codes. 4. Sele ct the relevant account, then select <enter>. The 'Analysis Codes' screen displays a list of all Analysis Codes that have been linked to it.   5. To Add an Analysis Account, select <F6> (Add) and complete the following details: <F3>(Search)  is available if required, to select a previously defined Analysis Code. 6. Continue adding further Analysis Accounts or select <F4> (Exit). 7. To Change an Analysis Code within an Analysis Account, select <F7>, then type the amending code.   8. To Delete an analysis code from an Analysis Account, select <F5>.