Generate Movement Accounts

Follow the steps below to generate movement accounts.

Procedure

  1. On the Maintain menu, click Account Structure/Movement Accounts - Generate. The Generate Movement Accounts window opens.
  2. The Link Type text box automatically displays the linked structure code AM, Account/Movement Extension. To define a new group of movement accounts, click the New button. The fields are enabled for entry.
  3. In the Code text box, enter a link code for the group of movement accounts.
  4. In the Name text boxes, enter a description of the group of movement accounts in both group and local languages.
  5. In the Available Accounts list box, select the base accounts to generate movement accounts for and click the right arrow button to move them to the Selected list box. Only base accounts defined with the same field length as defined in the general configuration, General 2 tab, are displayed in the Available list box.
  6. In the Available Movement Extensions list box, select the movement extensions to combine with the selected base accounts and click the right arrow button to move them to the Selected list box.
  7. Click Save.
  8. Click Close. The movement accounts are generated.

Results

  • If you want to replace a base account with another account, you first have to clear the connection between the old base account and the previously generated movement accounts. Then you add the new base account and re-generate all the movement accounts.
  • In order to generate movement accounts, the Use Movement Accounts check box must be selected in the general configuration, General 2 tab.
  • If a movement extension is defined as a statistical account, the generated movement account will also be a statistical account, regardless of the base account type.
  • In the Define Account Structure window you can see which movement accounts have been generated this way. For these generated accounts the check box Movement Account is automatically selected. This means that you should not change the account manually. If you do, the movement account will not be regenerated if you generate new movement accounts.
  • If you change the name of the base account used for a movement account, the movement account name will not be updated automatically. Remove that base account from the Selected list box and select it once more. Regenerate the movement accounts.
  • For deleting/moving and merging movement accounts, see the Define Account description.