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title: "Operational Reports Categories on GL Accounts"
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description: "Assign Operational Reports Categories to P&L GL accounts to control how Sales, COGS, and Labor appear in Stock Usage, COGS, and Labor reports."
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# Operational Reports Categories on GL Accounts

Operational Reports Category is a setting on the GL account record for GL accounts that have a GL type that appears on the P&L report. Operational reports categories are assigned to GL accounts on the GL Account record.

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Operational Reports Categories allow the user to assign a GL account to one of several categories used on various Operational Reports. These reports are ran from within [My Reports](/doc/docs/my-reports-using-my-reports). Operational Reports Categories can be broken down into three separate groups:

1. Sales
2. COGS
3. Labor & Other

Operational Reports Categories include the following:

- Sales - Food
- Sales - N/A Beverage
- Sales - Liquor
- Sales - Beer
- Sales - Wine
- Sales - Retail/Other
- Sales - General
- Discount (exclude from sales)
- COGS - Food
- COGS - N/A Beverage
- COGS - Liquor
- COGS - Beer
- COGS - Wine
- COGS - Retail/Other
- COGS - General
- Labor - FOH
- Labor - BOH
- Labor - Salaried
- Labor - General
- Other Key Controllable

The following is a sample of the reports that utilize the Operational Reports Category assignments in at least one of the groupings mentioned above:

- [Ad Hoc Reports](/doc/docs/dashboard-ad-hoc-reporting-overview) - customize your own reports using the assigned Operational Reports Categories
- [Stock Usage](/doc/docs/stock-usage)
- [Period Purchases Analysis by Vendor](/doc/docs/period-purchases-analysis-by-vendor)
- [COGS Allotment](/doc/docs/cogs-allotment)
- [COGS Analysis by Location](/doc/docs/cogs-analysis-by-location)
- [Sales and Labor Budget Chart](/doc/docs/sales-and-labor-budget-chart)
- [Location Vital Signs Report](/doc/docs/location-vital-signs)
- [Item Cost Analysis Report](/doc/docs/item-cost-analysis-by-location)
- [Sales vs. Labor Report](/doc/docs/sales-and-labor-breakout)
- [Sales and Labor Productivity Report](/doc/docs/sales-and-labor-productivity-report)
- [Sales and Prime Cost Report](/doc/docs/sales-and-prime-cost)