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The hierarchic list of companies includes all the companies available in the system. If you don't see a specific company, open another folder, use the Search field to locate the company by a string in its brief or full description. You can change the list display settings to suit your particular needs. To learn more about the list display settings, see Working with the item list.
The Contact Information pane (to the right) displays the contact information of the company which is selected in the list.
Note. Before you import or enter master records for Companies, consider creating master records for Individuals, Item Price Types, Discount and Markup Types, Supplier Price Types, Currencies, Bank Accounts. However, you can create all the missing elements on the fly from the Company master record.
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