Introduction

You can view the cards of all G/L accounts in your company.

Menu path

Financial/Reports/G/L Accounts/Cards

Roles & rights

To display the G/L accounts cards, function right 11 – View G/L overview is required. By default, users with the General Manager and Controller roles have this function right.

For more details on what you can do with function rights or levels, go to System/Setup/Security/Function rights, select the required module, and then click on the relevant ID. To find out the functions you can perform with a particular role, go to System/Setup/Security/Roles, type in the description, click Refresh, and then click the required link under the Role column.

Button

Refresh

Click this to update the results according to the defined criteria.

Reset

Click this to clear all defined criteria so that you can start a new search.

New

Click this to create a new general ledger account. For more information, see Creating Division General Ledger Accounts or Creating Corporate General Ledger Accounts.

Delete

Click this to delete the selected general ledger account.

Recode

Click this to modify the number of the selected general ledger account. For more information, see Recoding General Ledger Accounts.

Merge

Click this to merge the general ledger account’s information with another general ledger account. For more information, see Merging General Ledger Accounts.

Copy

Click this to copy the general ledger account scheme. For more information, see Copying Chart of Accounts.

Close

Click this to exit.

Description

Criteria section

Type / Subtype

At Type, select B/S or P&L to determine the type of chart of accounts that you want to display. Leave this option blank if you wish to display all types of chart of accounts. Select the available subtype for the chart of accounts that you want to display at Subtype. Leave this option blank if you wish to display all subtypes of the chart of accounts.

Debit/Credit / XRate type

At Debit/Credit, select Debit or Credit to determine the type of entry you want to display in the chart of accounts. Leave this option blank if you wish to display both entry types for the chart of accounts. At XRate type, select Closing, Average, or Historical to determine the type of exchange rate you wish to display for the chart of accounts.

G/L Account

Type a general ledger account number to display a specific general ledger account.

Description

Type the description (name) of the general ledger account to display the specific general ledger account.

Note: To view transaction details of a G/L card, click the hyperlink of the G/L account in the G/L column. For more information, see Displaying Transactions of G/L Card.   

Related document

• Copying Chart of Accounts
• Creating Corporate General Ledger Accounts
• Creating Division General Ledger Accounts
• Displaying Transactions of G/L Card
• Merging General Ledger Accounts
• Recoding General Ledger Accounts