Creating Companies

You can create as many companies as you want in a database.

To Create a Company:

  1. Click File, Company, New, and the New Company window opens.

  2. Enter the name of the new company in the Company Name field.

    You can give the company any name you like, but if you create a company whose name starts with CRONUS (all in uppercase letters) while working under a demonstration license file, the company will automatically become a demonstration company, with all the restrictions that implies (you can only post between November and February, and so on).

    The company name can have a maximum of 30 characters. The company name is case-sensitive, that is to say it differentiates between uppercase and lowercase letters, so you can have one company called COMPANY and another called Company.

  3. Click OK to create the company.

When you create the company name, remember that it will be written at the top of various reports, so write it exactly as you want it to appear. If you make a mistake while entering the name, or if you want a different one, you can always choose File, Company, Rename to change it.

In principle, you can create as many companies as you like, but in practical terms you are limited by the amount of space on your PC and in the database you are using. A company does not take up a fixed amount of space, and as you can see in the New Company window, you do not need to allocate a certain number of kilobytes (KB) to it. But as you gradually enter more and more data into the company, you will see that there is less room left in the database.

Related Topics

Opening Companies

Renaming Companies