Managing the Chart of accounts template

While creating a client in ADempiere, we will require an initial chart of accounts to make the ADempiere accounting engine run properly. As you are no doubt aware of what a chart of accounts means by now, we will not get into the details of it. If you still need to know what chart of accounts exactly is, refer to http://www.accountingcoach.com/online-accounting-course/15Xpg01.html.

ADempiere has a feature to import an initial chart of accounts. This needs to be written in a specific format. For clarity, we can learn a lot about chart of accounts format from a predefined example of chart of accounts. In a standard installation, there will be a default list of charts of accounts examples that can be used for your reference. You can access this file from the C:\ADempiere\data\import folder. This folder contains several examples of charts of accounts in Excel format (xls) files and Comma Separated Values (csv) files.

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