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Select General Ledger Setup menu > Main Account Maintenance.

For new companies, you can only access Main Account Maintenance after completing the General Ledger Setup Wizard.

Use Main Account Maintenance to create and maintain main accounts. The main account is always the first segment in an account, and its size is defined in Account Structure Maintenance. Main accounts are used as the basis for creating a chart of accounts. The combination of a main account and subaccounts creates a general ledger account.

Main Account Maintenance allows you to select whether the main account is active, inactive, or deleted. You can also define start and end dates for the main account which determine when postings to accounts created using the main account can occur. In addition, rollup codes can be assigned to the main account. Rollup codes are user-defined fields that allow you to group accounts for the purpose of reporting on user-defined classifications without changing the structure of the general ledger account itself. The options selected for the main account are used as the defaults when creating new accounts based on the main account.

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