Creating and Editing Charts of Accounts
The Chart of Accounts are imported with the Sage Transactions or created in ProudNumbers. They can be viewed and the report layout edited.
Chart of Accounts screen displays Charts imported from Sage in black, and Charts created in ProudNumbers from Sage imported Charts in blue.
Functions available from Chart screen:
Only Charts imported from Sage can be used to create new Charts
On default system reports on Nominal Category level.
By changing Chart of Accounts setting, reporting can be on individual nominal codes (Profit and Loss & Balance Sheet only) or nominal categories.
There are two settings for Charts of Accounts, both work on nominal category level
Reporting account individually
Reporting group
'Reporting account individually' option allows to report on nominal codes that belong to a nominal category individually.
'Reporting group' allows to change setting to report on individual nominal code for all Profit and Loss categories, Balance sheet categories or both.
The below example displays scenario where for category 'Other Sales' 'Reporting account individually' was selected.
Functions available from Chart screen available for Charts created in ProudNumbers only:
Deleted categories are permanently removed.
Removed nominal codes are held in the right hand field. They cannot be deleted.
Nominal codes can be moved into different categories on the tree.
Add the nominal code back into the chart by selecting and dragging. The group may need expanding on the (+) to see the added code.
Removed nominal codes are held in the right hand field. They cannot be deleted.
Caution: this is not limited within the boundaries of P&L and Balance Sheet.
