Setting up your chart of accounts

Your Chart of Accounts is the list of all accounts that your business needs to categorize the various transactions.

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Watch how to set up your Chart of Accounts or read on below.

Types of accounts

The Chart of Accounts is a list of accounts that your company needs for recording transactions.

There are five types of accounts, and each have further subtypes:

Revenue
- Income
- Other income
Expense
- Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
- Operating Expense
- Non-Operating Expense
Asset
- Cash and Cash Equivalents
- Current Asset
- Non-Current Asset
- Fixed Asset
Liability
- Currenty Liability
- Non-Current Liability
Equity
- Paid-in-Capital
- Retained Earnings
- Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
- Treasury Stock
- Opening Balance Equity
- Owner's Equity

What do the rest of the columns in the chart of accounts represent?

Column	Description
`Parent account`	The parent account of the account. Makes the account a sub-account.
`Enable payments`	When the column is set to yes the account will show up in drop-down menus when recording payments.
`Debit` or `credit`	The debit or credit balance of the account.
`Activity`	The type of cash flow activity for the account: `Operating (CFO)`, `investing (CFI)`, or `Financing (CFF)`.
`Show in expense claims`	If this column is enabled, employees will have the option to choose this account when submitting their expense claims.

How do I customize the chart of accounts for my business?

If you want to modify the standard chart of accounts offered by Wafeq, or create additional accounts, right-click on any row, then choose Insert row. In the account's Name column, give your account a name. From the Type drop-down menu, choose your account’s type.

Deleting accounts

If you want to delete accounts, right-click on the account you want to delete, and then delete the row.

Can't delete an account?

You won't be able to delete an account if:

It is a system account. System accounts are reserved for Wafeq's internal system. You cannot delete them.
The account is a bank account. To delete a bank account, you must do it from the Bank transaction menu.
The account has transactions. You must remove the transactions from the account before you can delete it.