The level of detail is tied into object and subsidiary only. It is used to define the hierarchy and permit rollups. Company is not required which permits running consolidated financial statements. The following is from the General Accounting 9.0 Implementation Guide. [ QUOTE ]
Financial reports are designed to print in this sequence:
• Company
• Object account
• Subsidiary
If you do not use company as your first sequence, the system uses the information for company 00000 to
determine the financial reporting date.
You must always use a sequence by object account and subsidiary to protect the integrity of your data and to
ensure that the level-of-detail subtotals are accurate. To print a report across many business units or companies,
use a sequence by object account and subsidiary only.
The data sequence item that immediately precedes the object account determines page breaks and totals for all
financial reports. For example, if the data sequence is by company, object account, and subsidiary, page breaks
and totals occur when the company number changes. If the object account is the first data sequence item,
the report has no page breaks and totals appear at the end of the report.
You can change the subtotals by changing the sequence and level breaks. For example, you could create
subtotals by specifying category codes for level breaks.
[/ QUOTE ] I believe that for job cost reports you can sequence by subsidiary and object and not break the level of detail.
I have heard for the last 22 years that levels of detail should not be skipped. The following is from the Financial Management Application Fundamentals 9.0 Implementation Guide [ QUOTE ]
Account Level of Detail
Enter a number used to summarize and classify accounts in the GL. Level 9 is the most detailed and Level 1 is the least detailed. Levels 1 and 2 are reserved for company and business unit totals. Levels 8 and 9 are reserved for posting accounts in the Job Cost system. Examples of the other levels are:
3: Assets, Liabilities, Revenues, Expenses.
4: Current Assets, Fixed Assets, Current Liabilities, and so on.
5: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventories, Salaries, and so on.
6: Petty Cash, Cash in Banks, Trade Accounts Receivable, and so on.
7: Petty Cash - Corporate, Petty Cash - Branch, and so on.
Do not skip levels of detail when you assign a level of detail to an account. Nonsequential levels of detail cause summarization errors in financial reports.
[/ QUOTE ]I think I can come up with an example. Send me a private message if you are interested.