All,

We have several financial supplier groups established, with most of the account definitions (advanced payments, etc...) pointing to the "control account" as the ledger account for posting.

On our 'inter-company" group we have not defined the "unallocated payments" account. We would like to input the "control account" as the ledger account, which is the way we have all our other supplier groups defined.

We orignally got a message saying the account we were trying to input already had a debit/credit balance and was given a choice to continue or cancel. (we cancelled) This was understandable because the system thinks we are setting up a new "control" account and any existing balances would not be "clearable". I discounted this message since the account I was trying to establish is already a control account and clearing existing balances will not be an issue.

Baan however has come back and said they recommend not using the same account number for reconciliation purposes / simplicity.

My question is: AM I GOING TO CAUSE MYSELF IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE BY USING THE "CONTROL ACCOUNT" AS THE LEDGER ACCOUNT FOR THE UNALLOCATED PAYMENTS? ie not be able to reconcile / clear / etc... ??

thanks,
JR

Hi,
From my experience I would say there is no such danger.
Regards,
Pedro

Don't do that!! You don't have the possibility anymore to run the control account checklist to check if your subledger is in line with the trial balance. Make a sublevel in your trialbalance and you have the same effect. In case everything is running smooth you don't have a problem, in case of troubles you don't have the possibility to sort it out anymore.