Equity, Income Statement, and Inventory Accounts

You can set up intercompany accounts for this group of account types. Transactions posted to these accounts can be candidates for intercompany elimination. When set up as intercompany accounts, these accounts do not have to be used exclusively for intercompany transactions. Check the Eliminate Intercompany Transactions box for all income and expense accounts associated with items used in intercompany transactions. If you do not check this box, transactions with those items are not candidates for elimination.

Open balances for foreign currency transactions posted to these accounts are never revalued.

Inventory accounts, created by checking the Inventory box for an Other Current Asset account belong to this group. However, you should use advanced intercompany journal entries to record intercompany inventory transfers. For information about advanced intercompany journal entries, see Making Advanced Intercompany Journal Entries.

Account Type

Eliminate Intercompany Transactions

Restricted to Intercompany Transactions

Reverse Elimination Automatically

Revalue Foreign Currency Open Balances

Equity

Yes

No

No

Never

Income

Yes

No

No

Never

Other Income

Yes

No

No

Never

Expense

Yes

No

No

Never

Other Expense

Yes

No

No

Never

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

Yes

Important:

For arm's length intercompany inventory transfer, do NOT mark the COGS account as Elimination.

No

No

Never

Other Current Asset - Inventory

Yes

No

No

Never

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General Notices