Michael, I have a simple answer and a hard question. The simple answer is to enter your departments into the Department lookup table, and they would be available in the Project Departments and Resource Departments custom fields. All these fields are built in. The tough question is whether you need or want the built-in functionality that comes with Departments. If you don’t need or want that functionality, than a different custom field might work better for you. The description of department functionality is all over the internet if you want to research. The $40k statement is that it depends on your requirements. Hope that helps…