The word "COMPANY", as defined with the CCS Accounting Series of Programs, refers to a unique entity for which you will be processing Payroll, G/L, A/R, Inventory or Training activity. The data of one COMPANY will not interact with that of another (unless a Child/Parent relationship is defined). Regardless of whether you are setting up a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a corporation, a nonprofit entity, etc., the word "COMPANY" will be used as a reference to this entity.

Companies are defined via the COMPANY Entry/Edit form. The data for each COMPANY is stored separately by the CCS Accounting Program via an ODBC driver in an ODBC data source. Each COMPANY has one Default COMPANY DOCUMENT per computer. (You can have as many COMPANY DOCUMENTS as you like per COMPANY; however, only one of them is linked via the COMPANY#). COMPANY DOCUMENTS allow each COMPANY to reside in a different Window within one instance of a CCS Accounting Program. In other words, CCS Accounting allows you to open multiple Companies simultaneously and to switch between companies at any time. At the time of creation, you assign each COMPANY an alpha-numeric identifier between 00 and ZZ with the following exceptions:

• Company 99: This is the sample company (The XYZ Company) that ships with this program.
• Company ZZ: This company has special functionality for Payroll Service Bureau needs. (See Setting Up a Service Bureau for details.)