There are two basic reasons to use multiple Sales Department Codes when you post sales in Denali: to run reports based on Department Codes and to post to different accounts. By assigning Department Codes to your sales, you can use them to sort and filter many of the sales reports available in the system. You can use these reports to track how different sections of your store are doing, and how different aspects of your business, such as wholesale and retail, are faring compared to one another.

You might want to post your sales to different general ledger accounts depending on the department from which the sale was made, or even based on the department in which individual items were merchandised. You can use multiple Department Codes for this purpose, and have each of them post to different ledger accounts.