[AccessD] Accounting: digits only for account numbers?

I've never seen it, but then I've been out of active accounting for
years and it may be something new.  If I'm designing a system, they can
use anything they want because I'm not going to use that as the primary
key anyhow. <VBG>

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] 
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:24 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Accounting: digits only for account numbers?


Hi all

Some of you, I know, are quite experienced in accounting and/or
accounting systems.

Have any you encountered setups (for serious use) where literals were
not only allowed - they are quite often - but actually used in building
the chart of accounts for the general ledger?

I'm not thinking of setups where simple formatting of numbers could do
it, like:

  U0900-34.00
  U7301-22.01
  U8398-12.00

but something like this:

  KH43TBB
  KL43TBS
  M3799JH


Also, I'm not thinking of old legacy systems nor customer or part
numbers as you can meet everything possible here.

Slightly OT, I know, but where else to ask?

/gustav

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