Account Sets

This form lets you create groups of general ledger account numbers that you can use to:

• Categorize vendor transactions by accounts to which they are posted in general ledger. These general ledger accounts are: Payables Control, Purchase Discounts, and Prepayment.
• Use separate account sets to designate different types of payables, or vendors in different geographical areas.

In multicurrency ledgers:

• Specify the currency used by vendors assigned to each account set.
• For account sets that do not use the functional currency, enter account numbers for unrealized exchange gains and losses, and realized exchange gains and losses.
• For account sets that do not use the functional currency, specify an account for exchange rounding differences.

You must create at least one account set before you can add vendor records.

If you use multicurrency accounting, you must add at least one account set for each currency used by your vendors. The account set you assign to a vendor must use the vendor's currency.

Before using

• Print the Account Sets report for the records you want to edit or delete. Choose the Account Sets icon from the Setup Reports folder.
• Print the Vendor List with the Profile information to see which vendors use the account sets you want to change.
• If changing account numbers, check that your general ledger contains the accounts you want to assign for these general ledger accounts:

• Payables Control
• Purchase Discounts
• Prepayment
• Unrealized and realized exchange gain and loss accounts (multicurrency ledgers)
• Retainage (when retainage is used)

If your database does not include Sage ERP Accpac General Ledger, Accounts Payable will not verify any general ledger account numbers. You will have to check the numbers you specify against the general ledger that you use.

Multicurrency account sets

If you use multicurrency accounting, you assign a currency code to each account set to identify the currency used by the vendors you will assign to the set. Once you save (add) an account set, you cannot change its currency.

Multicurrency account sets that do not use the functional currency also include the accounts to which you post gains and losses that result when you revalue Accounts Payable transactions at new exchange rates:

• Unrealized Exchange Gain (available only if you use the Realized and Unrealized Gain/Loss accounting method)
• Unrealized Exchange Loss (available only if you use the Realized and Unrealized Gain/Loss accounting method)
• Exchange Gain
• Exchange Loss
• Exchange Rounding

These general ledger accounts must allow the account set's currency.

The general ledger accounts you assign to multicurrency account sets depend on the type of currency information you require in your general ledger. For example, you might use a separate Payables Control account for each currency, but use the same numbers for the rest of the accounts in all your account sets.

If you use the same account number for all the unrealized and realized exchange gains and losses accounts, the balance in that account in your general ledger will be the net exchange gain or loss on Payables transactions.

Editing account sets

You can change everything in most records except the identifying code. To change the code, you first add a record with the code you want to use, then delete the record with the code you do not want.

If you use multicurrency accounting, you cannot change the currency code assigned to an account set.

Deleting account sets

You can delete account sets only when they are not assigned to vendors or vendor groups.

If you want to delete a code that is assigned to a vendor group or vendor record, you must first assign a different account set to the vendor record, then delete the unwanted code.

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