Building value sets

A walkthrough. Navigate to the chart of accounts value set task and create the company value set — independent validation, character data type, and the maximum length you decided when you sized the segments. Then repeat for cost centre, natural account and intercompany, narrating what differs each time. The lesson deliberately picks the wrong validation type on camera and then corrects it, because that is the mistake people actually make. Four things worth carrying. Pick a naming convention for value sets and be consistent — you will have dozens on a real project. Independent validation is almost always the answer for chart of accounts segments. The maximum length here must match what you decided when sizing, and it is painful to change later. And flag the security-enabled setting now; it gets configured in a later lesson. One common error to pre-empt: creating the value set and never adding values, then…

In this module: Module 4 · Chart of Accounts and Ledger Design

1. 1What we're building
2. 2The decision you can't undo
3. 3Anatomy of a chart of accounts
4. 4Segment labels and qualifiers
5. 5Running the design workshop
6. 6Sizing segments: the arithmetic
7. 7Building value sets
8. 8Structure, instance, deployment
9. 9Loading account values
10. 10Account hierarchies and why reporting needs them
11. 11Building and publishing a hierarchy
12. 12Accounting calendars
13. 13Currency and conversion rate types
14. 14Primary, secondary, reporting: the decision tree
15. 15Building the primary ledger
16. 16Ledger options and completing the definition
17. 17Cross-validation and segment value security
18. 18What breaks
19. 19Lab briefing: Meridian Trading