Set up a chart of accounts for your organization's legal entities by creating general
ledger accounts. Use these accounts to categorize your billing transactions by accounting type
and report them in your company’s financial statements.
Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and
Developer Editions with the Revenue Cloud Billing license. Contact your Salesforce account
executive for more information.
User Permissions Needed
To create general ledger accounts:
Accounts Receivables Admin permission set
Important
Starting Winter ’26, the General
Ledger Account object has a new Type field. For General Ledger Account records created
before Winter ’26, there's no Type value. To calculate opening and closing balances for
general ledger accounts during the closure of legal entity accounting periods, manually
select the Type value for existing records.
From the App Launcher, find and select General Ledger
Accounts.
Click New.
Enter an accounting name.
Enter a unique accounting code.
Enter the name of the financial statement that this general ledger account contributes
to. For example, you can enter Income Statement or
Balance Sheet.
If necessary, enter a description.
Select a legal entity.
Select the type for the accounting code that you entered.
From Winter ’26, use the Type field instead of Accounting Type field. The opening and
closing balance amounts are calculated for the general ledger accounts based on the Type
value when the legal entity accounting period is closed.
Save your work.
The autogenerated name of the general ledger account is a combination of the specified
accounting code and name.
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