Configure bank accounts

Step by step

1. 1Open Bank in the intended administration and choose Add bank account.
2. 2Under Bank account, enter the name, IBAN or other account identifier, currency and start date. A new account starts active with the administration currency; both choices can be changed. Under Link to your bookkeeping, choose Use an existing ledger account or Create a new ledger account. The corresponding fields appear directly below.
3. 3For a new ledger account, choose Current account, Savings account or Broker account. Check the proposed code, copied name and currency, and RGS mapping. Current-account proposals use 1100–1129, savings 1130–1159 and broker cash accounts 1160–1199. Inactive accounts also keep their codes occupied. You can change the code; if the range is full, choose a code yourself. If it has since been taken, choose another code yourself; nothing is silently substituted. Saving creates both accounts together without an opening balance or posting. Existing accounts are not renumbered.
4. 4Broker account is for the ordinary cash balance you can withdraw from your broker or use for settlement. Securities remain separate custody positions in Broker. All active accounts from Bank are available for settlement in Broker, including an ordinary current account; no second cash balance is created.
5. 5Enter the starting date from which you want to check statement coverage and choose whether the account is active. The starting date does not create an opening balance.
6. 6Open the account to inspect imported entries. Search by name, account number, description or payment reference, regardless of case. Or filter by the bank’s booking date.
7. 7Entries without a bank booking date are clearly marked at the top. Other entries follow the bank booking date from newest to oldest, without a time-zone shift. On the same date, statement order follows the oldest remaining source for each entry. Removing that import makes the oldest surviving source determine the order; amounts and postings do not change.
8. 8Change the name, starting date or active status when necessary. After statements have been imported or while the account is involved in an active own transfer, the account identity, currency and ledger mapping cannot be changed. Deletion is possible only while the account has no statements, entries or active own transfers.

What is on the screen?

• Name and IBAN or other account identifier
• Currency and ledger account
• Starting date and active status

What happens next?

The bank account is configured, but no accounting entries have been created. The same account checks apply to every legal form; linked administrations remain separate administrations.

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