GL:How to check the type of Account in the Accounting Flexfield

 

 

Filed Under  Account Type, Accounting Flexfield, Allow Budgeting, Allow Posting, hierarchy, Qualifiers, reconciliation, Segment

 

 

To check the type of a segment and/or the type of accounting combination you can go to the following forms.
Responsibility: General Ledger SuperUser
Navigation: Setup > Financials > Flexfields > Key > Values

Enter the following,
Application: General Ledger
Title: Accounting Flexfield (This is the name of the flexfield)
Structure: EY_ACC_FLEX (This is the name of the flexfield sructure)
Segment: Account (This is the name of the flexfield segement)

Click on Find button

Query for account 1737 (this is the account of the PO distribution that has been used in this article)

Click on Values, Hierarchy, Qualifiers tab

Click on Qualifiers field

The qualifier tells you the kind of account 1737 is. In this case the account type is Asset.
You can check the type of account combination as well
Responsibility: General Ledger SuperUser
Navigation: Setup > Accounts > Combinations

Query for the account, 11.100.716.1737.0000.000 (We are using the combination of the PO distribution from this article)

You can see that this account type is setup as Asset.