AAIs and Flex Accounting Rules

Automatic Accounting Instructions (AAIs) are the links between your day-to-day functions, chart of accounts, and financial reports. Programs that post to specific general ledger accounts use AAIs to create the journal entries. If you want to analyze data by using detailed product costs, you must set up AAIs to create the journal entries that capture the detailed product costs.

The system uses the flex accounting rules that you set up to capture cost object information to complete the profitability management subledger and subledger type. The system provides a flexible format that allows you to determine the information that populates the subledgers. For example, you could create a format that includes the customer number, sales territory, product category, and product for each transaction.