Is it possible for you to explain the chart of accounts with an example of a case study? I know what COA is and have read various papers on it but I was unable to find anywhere a doc which will explain me the following:
Case study of a small company...This company has some requirements and so we analyse those requirements and go ahead and implement COA for them after getting their all requirements. Now what we will be doing is,
1) Check their Org structure
2) select number of segments for their COA after knowing the level of reporting they want, say 5.
But why only 5, why not 6 or 4 etc...
3) These segments will have certain types and qualifiers...
Seg1 = balancing seg
Seg2 = Natural acc
Seg3 = cost center
Seg4 = Location
Seg5 = Product type
etc...
But what was the thought process behind all these segment qualifiers? The client(Small company) has given us say 10 requirements. But what thinking on our end made us to create above 5 segments and their respective qualifiers?
4) Certain value sets for these segs
Again, why these value sets etc..
5) And much more....
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Above I just gave an e.g as to what I expected from the explanation. Basically I want a case study for a small company which gives us requirements and we create for them the COA design.
COA setup steps can be found anywhere on google but the above stuff I wasn't able to find even after hard search.
Is it possible for you to explain all above by finding time from your busy schedule? I would really appreciate if I get such a doc from you as it will clear much of the doubts and will give us a clearer picture for COA.
Also, if the doc included the org structure of that sample company then it will be cherry on the cake.
I am really in need of such a sample case study for a small company (a mythical company or a small real company will also do).
I have stressed on a small company and not a large one because such a small design will truely explain us the real concepts easily. A large design example will mostly confuse us. Also as it is said, we should learn to walk first before we learn to run
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Thanks and regards,
Abhay