RE: Calling all GL Experts

I agree that this is a major exercise if you want this to be in your 
existing company.  I did such a conversion 7 years ago and it took a few 
months of planning, development and testing followed by a 6 hour 
conversion.  We still had a little cleanup afterwards too.

Alternately, you could create a new company and transfer the data over, 
but if you have all the other applications then that would probably be an 
even bigger task.

Good luck John.

Richard Caldicott
Director of Implementations
& Efficiency
Tandy Brands Accessories
817-548-0090 extn 146



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It can be done but will take significant amount of planning and a weekend
type of conversion along with a good cross reference table. 

This impacts every single file that contains GL Account number!  Extension
code does not make it any easier either.  This affects GL, AP, AR, CS, IN,
PM, AFI I'm sure there are more. 

As best as I can remember, GL Consolidation (transfer data from one ledger
to another) will not help in bringing across extension code detail but 
it's
worth a look? 




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From: John.Mcpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: 05/18/2005 10:45 AM
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Subject: [SYSTEM21] Calling all GL Experts

OK....Do not ask my why, but we have a request from our French sub to
change their chart of accounts.  They are currently setup with 1 level and
1 extension code level.  They would like to change this to be 2 chart of
account levels and no extension code levels.  My questions are therefore:

1. What is the best way to do this?
2. What effect will this haveon existing data?
3. When should we do this?  Would it be something that should only be done
at year end or can it be done in the middle of the year?
4. What happens if I switch off extension codes anyway?  Will this mess
anything up (even if I do not add the extra level)?
5. Anyone done it and what she we watch out for and what would the steps
be?

Thanks for all the help.

Cheers,
John

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