Account
An account is a record in your general ledger that is used to store transactions. Examples of accounts include accounts payable, cash, or cost of goods sold. Accounts are collected in your Chart of Accounts, which provides a set of destinations for posting transactions, and categorizes these transactions for tracking and reporting purposes.
Accounts have account types, which are used to organize data in account registers and other financial reports.
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Income statement account types include Cost of Goods Sold, Expense, Income, Other Expense, and Other Income.
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Balance sheet account types include Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank, Credit Card, Deferred Expense, Deferred Revenue, Equity, Fixed Asset, Long Term Liability, Other Asset, Other Current Asset, Other Current Liability, and Unbilled Receivable.
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Cash flow statement account types include the net of Income and Other Income, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Equity, Fixed Asset, Long Term Liability, Other Asset, Other Current Asset, Other Current Liability, and Unbilled Receivable.
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Statistical accounts, part of the Advanced Financial module, enable your financial team to track non-monetary data and then use that information about reports and income statements. Financial users can examine the non-monetary data to view its relationship with the financial activity of your organization. For more information, see Using Statistical Accounts.
For more information, see Chart of Accounts Management.
The REST API Browser includes information about the field names and field types of the account record and about the HTTP methods, request parameters, and operations available to this record. For details, see the REST API Browser’s account reference page.
For information about using the REST API Browser, see The REST API Browser.
Record ID
The record ID for an account REST record is account.
The account record has the following subrecords:
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accountcontextsearch
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localizations
Inaccessible Elements
Read-only sublists, including system notes, are not supported in REST.
Code Sample
{ "acctName": "Test Account333 1692257016", "acctType": { "id": "OthCurrAsset" }, "cashFlowRate": { "id": "AVERAGE" }, "description": "description text", "eliminate": false, "generalRate": { "id": "CURRENT" }, "includeChildren": false, "inventory": true, "isInactive": true, "isSummary": true, "revalue": true, "subsidiary": { "items": [ { "id": 2 }, { "id": 4 } ] } }