About single entity and multi-entity companies

Your Sage Intacct can be one of the following:

Single entity company

If you currently work in a single entity company, that entity represents a single tax identification or a single set of books. Users work in that entity, and the entity is pretty much synonymous with your company.

When your Intacct company is upgraded, it will have a single entity and a top level. The top level enables administrators to manage the company and entities, and set up master data lists used throughout the company.

Multi-entity company

In a multi-entity shared company, entities represent a separate tax identification or a separately secured, fully balancing set of books. Entities typically represent divisions, franchises, affiliates, associations, locations, chapters, self-balancing funds or subsidiaries, with a shared chart of accounts.

A multi-entity shared company includes one or more entities under the top level. The company has a set of data lists that's shared among all entities. These shared data lists include users, chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, and employees. Administrators define the shared data lists once at the top level and use them throughout the entities in the company. Administrators use the top level to manage entities and their data.

Alternatively, administrators can restrict to working at the entity level only users and master data list members such as suppliers, customers, and employees. Administrators can even restrict users to working only in particular entities.

An example of a multi-entity shared company is a property management company. One entity represents the company's corporate headquarters and each managed property is represented by its own separate entity.

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