{"id":24103,"date":"2024-07-12T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/setting-up-the-chart-of-accounts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:39:20","slug":"setting-up-the-chart-of-accounts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/open-bee-notes-de-frais\/administrators-guide\/configuration-accounting\/setting-up-the-chart-of-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up the chart of accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Use this section to set up accounting information for expense categories. This information will be used when generating the file containing the ledger entries.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the module is initialized, the accounts are set up with the most common values. As the charts of accounts can change from one company to another, it is possible to customize these accounts for each of the pre-embedded categories but also for the personalized categories.<\/p>\n\n<p>You will find customization:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expense accounts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VAT accounts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The VAT recovery rate  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The expense accounts, VAT accounts and the recovery rate are configurable by category.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-9.png 1581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expense and VAT account  <\/h3>\n\n<p>It is possible to modify the account numbers used for each of the categories present in the Expense Reports module by clicking on the following icon:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"47\" height=\"51\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14876\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>All you have to do is edit the expense account and the VAT account associated with this category.<\/p>\n\n<p>These new values will be used when generating the next export of the ledger entries.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VAT recovery rate<\/h3>\n\n<p>VAT cannot be recovered on all types of expenses incurred by the employee in the context of his or her professional needs.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can change the default values set in each category at any time.<\/p>\n\n<p>A rate of 0% means that no VAT line will be generated at the level of the accounting entries for expenses related to this category.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"914\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15514\" style=\"width:668px;height:409px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-8.png 914w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-8-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-8-768x471.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this section to set up accounting information for expense categories. This information will be used when generating the file containing the ledger entries. When the module is initialized, the accounts are set up with the most common values. As the charts of accounts can change from one company to another, it is possible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"parent":24106,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24105,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24103\/revisions\/24105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}