In Sage 50 Accounts, the chart of accounts layout is essential for generating management reports like profit and loss and balance sheets. It's also crucial during year-end processes to determine which nominal account balances are cleared. Therefore, it's vital to have an error-free chart of accounts.

To check your chart of accounts, you can run the Check option. This checks for issues such as missing or duplicate nominal codes in your chart of accounts. If any errors are identified, you can correct them using this article too.

Check the chart of accounts for errors

1. Click Nominal Codes.
2. Click Chart of Accounts.
3. Select the Chart of Accounts you want to check and click Edit.
4. Click Check.
   
   
   • If no errors are found, we recommend you run Check Data and if there are any errors in your data ensure these are fixed.
   • If errors are found, to preview the errors, click Run.
5. Please refer to the section Chart of Accounts errors to fix any errors.
6. Click Close then click Close.

Chart of Accounts errors

There are several solutions available, depending on the errors that appear on the Chart of Accounts Errors report.