General Accounting Discussions: DEVELOPMENT OF CHART OF ACCOUNT

Basically there are two approaches to prepare the chart of account of a company.


1) In the first approach, cost heads are separately opened for the cost of goods, administrative expenses,
.marketing and business promotion expenses. In this case grouping of chart of account is kept in mind at the time of data entry and the list of chart of account also becomes lenghty.

2) In the second approach, cost heads are not repeated. A generic list of cost heads are prepared and these are linked with the departments and products / projects. Software itself pick the relevant department and product / projects to prepare the desired grouping. In this approach data entry operator is not required to look at the groupoing because it is processed by system itself.

Kindly provide your comments that which one of the approach is the best one with its justification.
And which one approach is being used in the current scenartios by large organizations.

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Chart Of Account Sample 4

Sample 4 - Chart of Account Structure
ABC Sporting Goods operates 5 stores in two states. They sell to commercial and retail buyers and classify their sales and expenses into five departments.

After consulting with their accountants, ABC Sporting Goods decided on the following account structure:
Sample Chart of Accounts

The 1st segment is refer to the Main Account
The 2nd segment 0001,0002,0003.0004,0005 refer to Stores
The 3rd segment AZ, NM refer to States
The 4th segment PHX, GLN,ALB,TEM refer to Department.

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Chart Of Account Sample 1,2,3

The account segment is your company's Account number structure, the segment design needs to meet the requirements of your company now and in the future.

We have done some following exmaple to help you in designing your account segment.

Sample 1
ABC Industries operates two locations and has four sales departments. They have the following accounts setup:

Base on the structure above, consists of 12 characters and 3 segments
500000 will be the main account,
100, 200 will be the location
001,002,003,004 will be the department  
 
 
Sample 2
The following account number consists of 12 characters and 4 segments:
Sample : 85000.125.ABC.1.
The breakdown of the account structure is:

85000 Main Account
125 Department
ABC Job
1 Company

Sample 3
The following account number consists of 8 characters and 4 segments,
sample : 3/780/12/09.
The break-down of the account structure is:

3 Store
780 Base Account
12 Profit Center
09 Region

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Sample multiple segment GL

We provide the below sample of multiple segment Chart of Account on General Ledger Report.

General Ledger

GL Summary
GL Detail
GL with Running Balance

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Sample multiple segment COA

A company's organization structure can serve as the outline for its accounting chart of accounts.
For example, if a company divides its business into ten departments (production, marketing, human resources, etc.), each department will likely be accountable for its own expenses (salaries, supplies, phone, etc.). Each department will have its own phone expense account, its own salaries expense, etc.

Sample Chart of Accounts For a Large Corporation


Industry Considerations

1.Manufacturing/Services
XX- XXX-XXXX-XXX-XXX-XXX
Company-Cost Centre-Account -Product- Product Line- Sub Account

2.Distribution (News)
XX-XXXXXX-XX-XXX-XXXX
Division-Account-Region-Story-Distribution

3.Projects
XXX-XXXXX-XXX-XXXX-XX
Company-Account-Department-Project-Project Type

The reporting flexibility allows users to modify a number of control fields on standard reports allowing for quick customization to fit your organization’s needs.

Your organization can quickly produce presentation-quality financial statements and analysis reports for your board, auditors, management, and other users of financial information.hence this satisfy more complex reporting requirements.

We provide the report examples for your further understanding on the Chart of account segment.

Trial Balance
Summary Trial Balance
Detail Trial Balance Sorted by Fund
Detail Trial Balance Sorted by Cost Center 3

Statement of Revenue and Expenditures
P and L-Multiple Cost center.pdf
P and L-Multiple Cost center1.pdf


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