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title: "Cintra iQ guide: Accounting process"
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description: "Set up the cost analysis structure and rules, assign codes to payroll periods, and produce the journal output in Cintra iQ."
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# Guide: Accounting process

This accounting process lets you keep track of your cost code tasks within Cintra iQ.

- [Set up the cost analysis structure](/iq/docs/how-do-i-view-the-cost-code-structure)
- [Set up the cost analysis code rules](/iq/docs/what-are-the-account-mapping-details-within-cintra-iq)
- [Assign a default cost analysis code to payroll periods](/iq/docs/inputting-employee-cost-code-period-data)
- [Input employee cost code period data](/iq/docs/inputting-employee-cost-code-period-data)
- [Produce the journal output](/iq/docs/guide-journal-output-tasks)