Understanding Flex Accounting

You use flex accounting to define how you capture cost object information to complete the profitability management subledger and subledger type. The flexible format allows you to define rules to determine which fields populate which subledgers. For example, you might use a format that includes customer number, sales territory, product category, and product.

The standard JD Edwards EnterpriseOne account structure is formatted with the following segments:

• Business unit

• Object account

• Subsidiary account

• Subledger

• Cost Object 1

• Cost Object 2

• Cost Object 3

• Cost Object 4

• Item

Flexible format accounts have the same segments. The length of all segments cannot exceed 90 characters. Each segment of the flexible format account has a character limit, as follows:

Flexible Format Segment	Character Limit
Business unit	12 characters
Object account	6 characters
Subsidiary account	8 characters
Subledger	8 characters
Cost object 1-4	12 characters
Item	8 characters

To create a flexible account number, you must define one or more of these segments. To do this, associate one or more pieces of information with each segment. Each piece of information is associated with a field and is stored in one of the tables that you access from the Row menu on the Flexible Sales Account Revisions form. Cost objects 1-4 require you to enter a value in the Type field. These values are defined in the Cost Object Types program (P1620). In addition, you are required to define which cost object you are associating with the flexible rule in the Cost Object column.

To associate information with a segment, you must know the data item name that JD Edwards has defined for the corresponding field in the table.

You cannot define an object segment. You must define the object account through AAIs.

The subledgers are not visible online but are stored in the Account Ledger table (F0911).

You activate flexible sales accounting through a processing option in the Sales Update program (R42800).