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Attributes in General ledger accounts

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What is the purpose of the attribute fields in the General ledger account codes.

Can multiple GL codes have the same attribute to code so you can use them as a grouping method for GL codes?

My intention is to use different attribute codes to group GL accounts together so I can have a management accounts grouped GL codes, Statutory accounts Group of GL codes and project codes group of GL codes. These different groups will at the present not subtotal neatly in the chart of accounts.

In Jet reports can you use the attribute fields as well as the GL account code to analyse transactions?

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    Alexander Ermakov 28,094 on at
    RE: Attributes in General ledger accounts

    Unfortunately the screenshot is missing - can you upload it using rich formatting option here?

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    Community Member on at
    RE: Attributes in General ledger accounts

    Thank you for your response

    The screen shot below shows attributes as part of the GL code set up, up to 20 Attributes can be set up for each GL code

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    Alexander Ermakov 28,094 on at
    RE: Attributes in General ledger accounts

    What exactly attribute fields you refer to? Generally, you can organize the numbering of your accounts in CoA the way that it would have the division you talk about. In international projects, the code can be created the way it would e.g. contain both local account number and corporate account number. You can use symbols in the beginning of the code so the accounts are sorted in the order you need (less used accounts will be seen in the bottom). Also, you can filter out only the accounts you need and save this filtering as a custom view in your shortcuts - and later you would open the list of accounts by "Project" only, or "Statutory" only:  msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh997422(v=nav.90).aspx

    You can as well add more fields to the table if you have developer's access.

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