Chart of Accounts Management.

Your chart of accounts is the backbone of every financial report, every journal entry, and every budget you create. With AI-native ERP, you can build and maintain your entire chart of accounts through natural conversation — no spreadsheets, no manual data entry screens, and no risk of miscategorization.

How It Works

Every account you create belongs to one of five standard types: asset, liability, equity, revenue, or expense. You can further classify accounts with subtypes like current asset, fixed asset, operating expense, or cost of sales. This structure powers your balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow reporting automatically.

You can organize accounts into hierarchies using parent-child relationships. Header accounts serve as subtotal groupings that roll up balances from their children, giving you a clean structure that mirrors how your business actually operates. For example, you might have a "Total Operating Expenses" header that aggregates travel, office supplies, and payroll costs.

Multi-Entity Without the Overhead

If you run multiple legal entities, you do not need to duplicate your chart of accounts. The system uses a master-entity pattern where organization-wide accounts are defined once and automatically visible to all entities. When a specific entity needs a different account name or configuration, you create a lightweight override — the rest of the data stays shared.

This means you can manage 600 effective account rows across six entities while only storing 100 master records. Updates to a master account propagate instantly to every entity that has not overridden it.

Practical Controls

Each account carries properties that govern how it behaves in your system. You can mark accounts as reconcilable for bank matching, restrict manual journal entries to prevent misuse, or designate a foreign currency for accounts that track balances in a non-functional currency.

When an account is no longer needed, you can deactivate it without losing any historical transaction data. Deactivated accounts stop appearing in drop-downs and transaction forms but remain fully visible in reports and audit trails.

Built for Finance Teams

Whether you are a startup building your first chart of accounts or an established business managing a complex multi-entity structure, the system adapts to your needs. You can start with a standard US GAAP or IFRS template and customize from there, or build your chart from scratch one account at a time. Every change flows through an approval workflow that matches the risk level of the operation, so routine additions go through instantly while structural changes get the oversight they deserve.