Chart of Accounts Best Practice Structure
You can choose how to structure your chart of accounts. However, we recommend using the following Chart of Accounts Best Practice Structure. This is especially important if you are using Certinia Reporting, because our best practice structure ensures that the reports produced are accurate.
When setting up your general ledger accounts, we recommend you implement the reporting hierarchy shown in the table below. If you have upgraded to Accounting Summer 2023, your administrator will need to manually add these picklist values to the Trial Balance fields 1 - 3 on the General Ledger Account object and create the required dependencies. Refer to the “Upgrading Accounting” document for more information.
Trial Balance 1 | Trial Balance 2 | Trial Balance 3 |
---|---|---|
Assets |
Current Assets |
Bank and Cash |
|
Accounts Receivable | |
Prepayments and Accrued Income | ||
Debtors | ||
Inventory | ||
Fixed Assets | Land and Buildings | |
Fixtures Fittings and Equipment | ||
Intangible Assets | Intangible Assets | |
Other Assets | Other Assets | |
Liabilities | Current Liabilities | Accounts Payable |
Accruals and Deferred Income | ||
Employment Payables | ||
Tax Liability | ||
Creditors | ||
Employment Creditors | ||
Provisions | ||
Long Term Liabilities | Payable After 1 Year | |
Creditors Due After 1 Year | ||
Equity | Shareholders Funds | Stock |
Capital and Reserves | ||
Retained Earnings | Retained Earnings | |
Gross Profit | Sales Revenue | Sales Revenue |
Cost of Sales | Cost of Sales | |
Expenses | Operating Expenses | Administration Costs |
Equipment Hire and Repairs | ||
Marketing Expenses | ||
Motor Expenses | ||
Occupation Costs | ||
Payroll Costs | ||
Professional Fees | ||
Staff Costs | ||
Travel Expenses | ||
Depreciation and Amortization | Amortization | |
Depreciation | ||
Interest and Tax | Finance Costs | |
Taxation | ||
Other Income/Expense | Other Income and Expenses |
Custom Setting - GLA Filtering
You can control GLA filtering in Payment Selection and Payments Plus by allowing custom Trial Balance combinations.
Use the following format (if set as NO FILTERING all GLAs are retrieved):
- TB1=Liabilities,TB2=Current Liabilities,TB3=Creditors,TB3=Provisions
To use custom filtering for trial balances you must enable the GLA Filtering custom setting. For more information, see