Hi Lori,

Payables has a company profile option for validating the Ledger account. Ensure that it is set to validate both the account and department, so that it can follow the same logic as what Steve laid out for Ledger. It is possible to choose to validate only the account, which is not what you were wanting to do.

If you are looking for a more specific example of a place where you want this behaviour, please indicate which module and transaction type(s).