Extending the length of your ledger accounts: French legislation

You can extend the length of the subaccount codes in your chart of accounts if this is required for your business needs.

The process to extend your subaccount codes applies to all subaccounts of a specified length. For example, to change all 5-digit, 6-digit and 7-digit codes to length 8, you need to complete the steps for each length.

To extend a subaccount:

1. Access your Accounting configuration.

   Settings > Accounting – Accounting configuration

2. Extend the length of your subaccounts (Extend subaccount length).
3. Enter the Current subaccount length that you want to extend.
4. Enter the New subaccount length that you want to use for your subaccounts.
   This value cannot exceed 13 digits.
5. Select your autocomplete preferences:
   • Extend subaccounts by inserting 0s at the end: 0s will be added at the end of your subaccount code until the New subaccount length is reached.
   • Extend subaccounts by inserting 0s at a specified position: 0s will be added after a specified position in your subaccount code.
     For example, if you enter a Current subaccount length of 8, a New subaccount length of 12 and Specify a position of 6, all subaccounts of length 8 are extended as follows: 12345678 becomes 123456000078.
6. Select the checkbox to confirm the warning message.
7. Confirm the extension of your subaccounts (Extend subaccount length).