Chart of Accounts

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Purpose of the Chart of Accounts

Chart of Accounts Design

  • The COA as found in ADempiere is in the form of an excel spreadsheet where users can adapt to their own format.
  • It can then be saved as a comma separated value file or accting.csv and imported into ADempiere.
  • Daniel Norin has created a nice COA Editor to access that csv file to change or create a new COA without looking at the excel file.
  • The COA follows accounting classifications underlying General Accepted Principles of Accounting (GAAP) in practice throughout the world.

Summary List of COA

  • Here we lay out the general structure of the COA by displaying only the top level summary elements.
Account Value Account Name Account Type
1 Assets Asset
2 Liabilities Liability
3 Owner's Equity/Net Worth Owner's Equity
4 Sales Revenue
5 Cost of Goods Sold Expense
6 Expenses Expense



Field Descriptions

I_ELEMENTVALUE

Te fields below are from the I_ElementValue table. I_* tables provide a 'staging area' for importing data before this data is tested against business rules and if found to be conforming to these rules, is imported in to the C_ElementValue table. These tables describe 'element values' which might otherwise be described as the members of the element dimension - and most notably the Accounts dimension known to accountants as the chart of accounts.

Column Description
i_elementvalue_id ID for import processing
ad_client_id Client ID
ad_org_id Organisation ID
isactive Is Active flag
createdby Adempiere core field
created Adempiere core field
updated Adempiere core field
updatedby Adempiere core field
i_isimported Flag for import processing
i_errormsg Error message if import failed
c_element_id Element ID - see c_element
elementname Element Name
c_elementvalue_id Internal Element ID
value Account "Natural" code
name Account Name
description Account description
accounttype Account classification - A = Asset, L = Liability, E = Expense, R = Revenue, O = Owners Equity, M = Memorandum
accountsign Indicates the Natural Sign of the Account as a Debit or Credit
isdoccontrolled If the account is document controlled, users are unable to post directly to the account (you must post documents and they post to the account)
issummary If the account is a summary account then it is a header / total of the children accounts
parentvalue Key of the Parent
parentelementvalue_id The parent (summary) account - Parent node reference
postactual Is the user allowed to post actual values? (Y/N)
postbudget Is the user allowed to post budget values? (Y/N)
poststatistical Is the user allowed to post statistical values? (Y/N)
postencumbrance Is the user allowed to post commitments / encumbrance values? (Y/N)
default_account Name of the Default Account Column
ad_column_id Column in the table
processing Flags for import processing
processed Flags for import processing

COA Import File

The COA import file is a file provided to assist end users in importing their chart of accounts. The data contained in the spreadsheet is imported in to the I_ElementValue table and once validated, this is imported in to the C_ElementValue table where is is accessible via the element tree editor. The spreadsheet includes a number of fields to assist with the creation of report dimensions.

  • Account value - unique ID of the account
  • Account name - short name of the account
  • Account description - a description of the account
  • Account type - type of the entries written to this account (Asset/Liability/Owner's Equity/Expense/Revenue/Memo)
  • Account sign - Natural(+/-)/Debit(-)/Credit(+)
  • Document controlled - if yes, then it is not possible to post manually to this account
  • Summary account - No entries can be posted to this account, this is a summary of the subaccounts. All entries have to be submitted to the subaccounts
  • Default account - Name of the Default Account Column - this is a link to a system controlled default account
  • Account parent - Summary account where the entries of this account are summarized to
  • Balance sheet - If this item appears in the balance sheet report - it's identifier
  • Balance sheet name - If this item appears in the balance sheet report - it's name as displayed in the report
  • US 1120 Balance Sheet - If this item appears in the form 1120 (US tax balance sheet) report - it's identifier
  • US 1120 Balance Sheet Name - If this item appears in the form 1120 (US tax balance sheet) report - it's name as displayed in the report
  • Profit&Loss - If this item appears in the profit and loss report - it's identifier
  • Profit&Loss Name - If this item appears in the profit and loss report - it's name as displayed in the report
  • US 1120 Income Stmt - If this item appears in the form 1120 (US tax profit and loss) report - it's identifier
  • US 1120 Income Stmt Name - If this item appears in the form 1120 (US tax profit and loss) report - it's name as displayed in the report
  • Cash Flow - If this item appears in the cash flow report - it's identifier
  • Cash Flow Name - If this item appears in the cash flow report - it's name as displayed in the report
  • tri (only in definition csv/xls) - ?

Common Errors in Design