Adding new General Ledger accounts to your chart of accounts is common throughout the year. You or your controller may do this after an audit or acquisition of a new asset/liability, etc. Depending upon the type of account that is set up will determine where/how you edit your financial statement. The steps/options from article 17041, "How do I add new accounts to a financial statement design?" are what you need!

Option A

Update your customized financial statement designs and your net income accumulator.

1. In Financial Statement Designer, click File, Open.
2. Select the design that does not display the new General Ledger accounts. Click Open.
3. Double-click the appropriate amount options line (the line with green 9999s).
4. In the Amount Options window, type the new account in the grid. You can type the same account number in the From Account and To Account columns.
5. Click Save then Close.
   • Note: If you created a new amount options line for the accounts you added to the design, you need to add that line to the appropriate total line. Refer to article 17748 "How do I add a new account or amount option line to the total in a Financial Statement design?" for more information on using Assign Total. If you just added a new account to an existing amount options line, you do not need to adjust any totals.
6. Update the net income accumulator:
   • If you use the Default Net Income - Accrual accumulator or the Default Net Income - Cashaccumulator, update your accumulator as follows:
     1. From the File menu, select Create.
     2. Click Yes to the message "The accumulator Default Net Income - [Accrual/Cash] already exists. Do you want to overwrite it? Cancel will stop creation of default statements."
     3. Click Cancel on the remaining messages.
   • If you use a custom net income accumulator, update your accumulator as follows:
     1. From the Tools menu, select Accumulators.
     2. Select the appropriate accumulator from the Accumulator Name list.
     3. Adjust the account ranges to include the new account. You may be adjusting an existing row or adding a new row. If you add a new row, be sure to select the appropriate +/- sign and the appropriate Field.
     4. Click Save then Close.
7. From the File menu, select Save to save the design changes.

Option B
Update the default financial statements. The default financial statement design names are BalSAccr, BalSCash, CompAccr, CompCash, IncSAccr, IncSCash, TBalAccr, and TBalCash.

Note: Recreating the default financial statements overwrites any customization's you saved to the default designs.

1. In Financial Statement Designer, from the File menu, select Create.
2. Click Yes to each message that appears.
3. Close all the open financial statement design windows.
4. Exit Financial Statement Designer. 

It is important to note that option A is the main option that clients use and should be the only option if you customize your financial statements in any way. The option B is great if you do not make any changes or customization to your statements. Executing option B on your custom statements may result in you having to restore your statements from a back up.

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