I have been given a task of setting up new nominal codes for the company and my boss has given me a list of preffered codes but I am unsure of a couple of things and hoping someone can help! Were the code would normally be 1000 is it possible to change that to 10000? my boss seems to want all the codes to 5 digits instead of the usual 4 so her list of preffered codes looks like 10000, 10100, 10200 ....etc... were as it would usually just be 1000, 1010 etc. Hope that is clear?!
There's certainly no problem setting up and using five digit codes - I've done so myself in the past (back in the mid-90s for a company that needed departments, but with reporting done in a way that Sage, at the time, couldn't cope with; I used two digits for the department, and the other three to represent the relevant expenses, etc, and wrote some software to take an exported TB and produce various reports from that).
However, you can't 'change' an existing code - eg if you have a 1010, and you want to use 10100 instead, you can create the new code, but you might be stuck with the old code as well. (You can delete it if it contains no transactions, and it isn't a control code - though you'll presumably change any control codes to the new system).
Is there a reason you've been asked to do this?
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One other thing I remember from a Sage course I did, was that whatever length of code you choose to use (between 4 and 8 digits), *all* codes must be that length. So you can't have 12010, 12011 and then 1202.
One other thing I remember from a Sage course I did, was that whatever length of code you choose to use (between 4 and 8 digits), *all* codes must be that length. So you can't have 12010, 12011 and then 1202.
I have codes of 4 and 5 digits quite happily I have 6201 and 62011 and also 7502 and 75020. As long as these new codes are included within the COA.
I have 6201 and 62011 and also 7502 and 75020. As long as these new codes are included within the COA.
