# Accounts ⛭

<mark style="color:orange;">Setup>Configuration>Accounting>Accounts</mark>

### General

<table><thead><tr><th>Field</th><th>Notes</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Current Status</td><td>Shows if the Accounts are Open or Closed. </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Display Nominal codes</td><td>If this box is checked the Account Nominal Codes are shown both in the Chart of Accounts and in the account selection drop-down lists (e.g. on the Item's Accounting tab). <a href="../../../accounting#_8liln2vkbbad">See Nominal Codes</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Enable Document history/audit trail</td><td>By default, all Transactional Documents, such as Sales Invoices, have an audit history trail that records all the changes made to the Document, and by whom. This checkbox allows you to enable/disable this feature. For more information see <a href="../../../common-actions#show-history">Show History</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Create Credit Note for unused payment</td><td>When checked a Credit Note will be automatically created for an Unused Payment, i.e. you <mark style="color:orange;">Receive Payment</mark> on the Customer Master before committing to ship the Customer's Order. </td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Numerical Formats

<table><thead><tr><th>Field</th><th>Notes</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Use commas</td><td>By default, numbers have comma separators per 1000. This checkbox enables/disables this feature.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>On reports display negative numbers in brackets</td><td>By default, negative numbers are displayed using a '-' sign, as in normal arithmetic. For accountancy reports, sometimes it is customary to display negative numbers using brackets instead e.g. -123.00 becomes (123.00). This checkbox enables/disables this feature. Note: This feature only applies to Reports and not to Line Items.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Decimal places for costs</td><td>Two, three, or four decimal places.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Decimal places for prices</td><td>Two, three, or four decimal places.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Decimal places for discounts </td><td>Two, three, or four decimal places.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Decimal places for totals/balances</td><td>Two, three, or four decimal places.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Discounts

| Setting              | Options                    |
| -------------------- | -------------------------- |
| Discount Calculation | Using Unit Price Cost      |
|                      | Using Total Pre-tax amount |

### Default Accounts

Users can set default pointers for transactions&#x20;

<table><thead><tr><th>Field</th><th>Notes</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Tax Liability</td><td>Sales Tax or VAT liabilities.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Inventory Asset</td><td>Stock <em>Inventory</em> Asset Account.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cost Of Goods Sold</td><td>Set COGs account.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Income</td><td>See <a href="../../../common-actions#enter-on-the-line-item-table">Enter on the Line Item Table</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Expense</td><td>See <a href="../../../common-actions#enter-on-the-line-item-table">Enter on the Line Item Table</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Discount</td><td>Post Discount Item entries here unless otherwise specified on the Accounting tab on this Item. See <a href="../../../products-services/items-which-ones/calculation-items#_g784odjhgt8z">Discount Item</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Markup</td><td>Post Markup Item entries here unless otherwise specified on the Accounting tab on this Item. See <a href="../../../products-services/items-which-ones/calculation-items#_fohxlws9g9iq">Markup Item</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bank Charge</td><td>For charges paid for non trading related activities i.e. Banking fees.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bank Interest</td><td>For income recieved from non trading related activities i.e. Bank Interest.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Stock Adjustment</td><td>See <a href="../../products-services/stock-adjustment">Stock Adjustments</a>. </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pending Item Receipts</td><td>a.k.a GRNI - Goods Received Not Invoiced. See <a href="../../purchasing/item-receipts">Item Receipts</a>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Currency Gains/Losses</td><td>See <a href="../../../accounting/currencies#_i79ynuzgcbw2">Currency adjustments for gains and losses.</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
