Accounts provide additional way to group worklogs. You can create accounts to track budgets specific to a department, customer etc. Accounts can be grouped in hierarchy and this also provided additional grouping within a group.
Accounts can be global or project specific and displayed to users when they are logging work either through “Worklog Dialog” or “Log Work Custom Field”. This associates worklog with an account but you can also associate issues with accounts too. Issues are associated with accounts using “Accounts Custom Field”. There can be only one instance of this custom field. It is not automatically created and associating issues with accounts is optional. If you want to you can configure it and set it to be visible for specific issue types and projects just like all other custom fields. Selecting another account for a worklog overrides account association specified in “Account Custom Field”.
