Validate an Account Combination
You can check whether an account combination is valid according to the cross-validation rules, cross-validation combination sets, and related value sets that you defined.
- In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Chart of
Accounts Configurations task.
- Offering: Financials
- Functional Area: Financial Reporting Structures
- Task: Manage Chart of Accounts Configurations
- On the Manage Chart of Accounts Configuration page, select the row for the applicable chart of accounts.
- On the Actions menu, select Manage Cross-Validation Rules.
- On the Manage Cross-Validations page, click the Combination Sets tab.Note: You can also navigate to this page using the Manage Cross-Validation Rules task.
- On the Actions menu, select Validate. The Validate Account dialog box opens.
- In the Account field, enter the account combination that you want to check.
- Optionally enter an effective date.
- Select a validation rule:
- All account combination validation rules: Checks the account combination against all active cross-validation combination sets, and all enabled cross-validation rules and related value sets.
- All active cross-validation combination sets: Checks the account combination against active cross-validation combination sets.
- A specific cross-validation combination set: Checks the account combination against a specific cross-validation combination set with a Draft, Active, or Inactive status. This option can be useful before you decide to activate a cross-validation combination set.
- Click Validate. If the account combination is valid, then a status of Pass is returned. Otherwise, a status of Fail is returned, along with a message.