Garnishment. A legal procedure by which a creditor can collect what a debtor owes by reaching the debtor's property when it is in the hands of someone other than the debtor. Garnishment is a drastic measure for collecting a debt. A court order of garnishment allows a creditor to take the property of a debtor when the debtor does not possess the property. A garnishment action is taken against the debtor as defendant and the property holder as garnishee.
Salesforce: Build Parent/Child Relationships. Salesforce.com For Dummies, 5th Edition. In Salesforce, you can link multiple offices of a company together by using the Parent Account field on an account record. And you can create multiple tiers to the hierarchy if your customer is organized that way.
Sales. Sales are purchases of the company's goods or services by customers. For companies using accrual accounting, this includes both cash payments and payments made on account. The sales account, otherwise known as the revenue account, is found at the top of the company's income statement. However, at the end of every account period the sales account is closed to equity as part of the closing process. Therefore, the aggregation of sales over the company's history is found in the equity accounts.