You can allocate specific amounts for employee payroll accounts to multiple departments when processing a paycheck or payroll check run. For example, if you have an employee who spent half of his or her time on administration and the other half on marketing, you can allocate 50% of their wages to each department for that pay period.
If you have assigned a department on the Personal tab of an employee record, all of the employee's payroll accounts that use that department will have 100% of the amount allocated to the department. For example, a carpenter's employee record has the department set to Construction. Any of the carpenter's payroll accounts that use the Construction department will allocate 100% of their amount to Construction, unless you change it manually.
If an employee payroll linked account has a department assigned to it that is not the department assigned on the employee's Personal tab in their record, 100% of the amount will be allocated to the linked account's department unless you allocate it to another.
If you are using projects, you can get a more detailed picture of individual project costs and revenues if you allocate employee payroll to your projects.
Notes:
If you have selected a payroll expense account (other
than the default payroll linked accounts) on the Income tab in the employee
record, all allocations will be recorded using this account - unless
you are using Payroll Expense Groups .
If you add an account to an employee's list of payroll accounts, departmental allocations must be applied manually to that account even if the Apply this allocation to all accounts by percentage box is checked in another account.