What are analysis categories?

These are categories or areas that you can divide your books/bank accounts in Big Red Book into. For example: for Purchases you might set up one called ‘Machinery’ and another called ‘Stock’. You must set up a minimum of 1 analysis category for each book and bank account, with a maximum of 14 for each book and each bank account.

Note: With the cash book it is 1-14 for cash receipts, and 1-14 for cash payments.

In the sales book and purchases book, you should setup analysis categories for ledger (customer/supplier) transactions and non-ledger (non-customer/non-supplier transactions). For the cash book and payments book you only need to setup analysis categories for non-ledger transactions.