GL Accounts
Every aspect of a General Ledger relates to accounts. The GL Accounts page allows you to search, edit, and create accounts.
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To work with GL Accounts, users will need to be assigned to a role with some combination of the following permissions:
Role | Role Permissions |
---|---|
General Ledger Accounting GL Account Alternate Code Access > GL Account Management | Can view GL accounts Can edit GL accounts Can create GL accounts Can delete GL accounts Can download to Excel |
Account Number
Description
Type
Fund Type
Available for Budgeting
Available for Purchasing
Fixed Asset Account Type
Fund Balance Account Number
GL Account Components
Balances Not Equal
The GL Account List page allows you to view and manage all the accounts you have permission to access.
All accounts are associated with an Account Type, which is assigned based on the purpose of the account. Using account types allows the system to calculate the fund balances and assets so they can be summarized in the income statements and balance sheets.
Balance Sheet: Assets = Liabilities + Fund Balances
Income Statements: Fund Balances = Income - Expenses + Auxiliary
Code | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
A | Assets | Balance Sheet |
L | Liabilities | Balance Sheet |
F | Fund Balances | Balance Sheet |
M | Not Active | Balance Sheet |
I | Income | Income Statement |
E | Expenses | Income Statement |
X | Auxiliary | Income Statement |
N | Not Active | Income Statement |
This can be useful when you're creating a few accounts. You can enter account information directly or paste GL account information into the system from an external source like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
Navigate to the Create GL accounts page.
From this page, you can see there is a 4 step wizard for creating new GL accounts.
STEP 1: Choose how to create the new GL accounts. Select Manually create GL accounts button.
Click Save and continue.
STEP 2: Review and edit GL accounts. There are two ways you can add accounts to the worksheet:
Type the account information directly into the worksheet.
Paste from Excel (using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V).
Click the Save
icon in the upper left corner of the worksheet to see if there are any errors or warnings that appear for the newly entered rows.
Click Save and continue.
STEP 3: Apply security to new GL accounts. From here you can select roles and components to manage the accounts.
When this section opens, you will notice that the accounts are labeled with a warning
icon and under the Security column is the "Not assigned, no users have access" which means you need to choose who will be able to access the accounts being added.
Using the checkboxes next to the accounts and the Add component security or Add alternate security buttons, you can quickly assign users to the accounts.
Component Security: allows you to select predefined roles giving permission to any user assigned to the role access to the selected accounts.
Alternate Security: allows you to select a predefined security code that will provide users assigned to that code access to selected accounts.
Click Save and continue.
STEP 4: Add new GL accounts to Budget. If any of the new accounts need to be part of a budget, you can use the checkboxes and the Add accounts to budget button.
Once you have all the new accounts added, secured, and applied, you can click the Create GL accounts button. After a quick pause to make sure you want to complete the process, you will be redirected to the GL Account List page.
Select the checkboxes next to the rows you want to export.
From the Options drop-down, select Download to Excel. The Download to Excel pop-up opens.
Select options for the Excel format and data columns.
Click Download. Your .xlsx or .zip file is saved in the file location that you have set in your browser settings.