Review your chart of accounts

When you first set up your company in Accounting Start, we create a set of categories based on your type of business: Sole trader, limited company, or limited liability partnership (LLP).

We use categories to group your transactions so you can see how your business is performing.

Each category has Group and Type that determines how transactions are reported on your financial reports, the Profit and Loss, and the Balance Sheet.

All your ledger accounts are shown in the Chart of Accounts list.

Find a category

Go to More, Settings and Chart of Accounts.

Use the Search box to filter the list by category by name or number.

Sort the list by Type. Select Search from the dropdown.

Export the chart of accounts

You can export the list of categories to an Excel spreadsheet.

The export shows the nominal code, ledger name, control account, category, tax rate and its visibility.

To save time setting up a new chart of accounts in a new business, consider exporting the existing chart of accounts to a spreadsheet, making the required changes, and importing back into Accounting Start. You can only do this when no transactions have been entered in Accounting Start.

Import a chart of accounts

Use our CSV file template to import your existing chart of accounts. This is useful if you're coming from another system and want to use the same categories.

You can only do this when no transactions have been entered in Accounting Start.

Import your chart of accounts

Change the categories 

Create as many categories as you need or change existing ones to suit your business.

For example, if you're running a gardening business, you might want to change Product Sales to Gardening Sales.

How to create or edit a category

Print a list of categories

1. From Reporting, choose Chart of Accounts under Advanced Reports.
2. By default, the report shows a list of all categories. To view a list of categories for only one type select the Type dropdown list and then select it.

The chart of accounts is a list of all categories used by your business.

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