Marsha - As Matt suggested, I would suggest you investigate Binary Stream's Multi-Entity Management product to consolidate your 26 different entities into a single database. We use MEM with Dynamics GP 2015 and have 70 different entities the same database. This allows my accounting group to do all the accounting for 70 entities in single database. It not only saves time during month and year-end close, but also helps with integrations and reporting. We centralize our AP so everything is paid for all entities out of a single database. Managing that many companies is too painful for any accounting group. Regarding the federal ID numbers - I assume you're talking about these fields in the Company setup window? I would certainly check with Binary Stream, but even if they can't accommodate the multiple number of Federal Tax ID's, you could use Extender to build a window to house all these numbers. If you go with MEM, I'm going to also suggest you look at Company Data Archive by Professional Advantage. The problem my company ran into they were packing an enormous amount of transactions into a single database which caused our database to grow to 300GB in size which also caused issues with Management Reporter. Company Data Archive allowed us to peel off historical years into a separate database and now we have a process where we keep two historical and one active year in the production database at a time, All other years have been archived into another database. Hope this information helps.
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