Customising Accounts and Categories | Income/Expense accounting

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All Banana Accounting templates already include the Accounts and Categories tables, with all the essential items to manage your accounting. However, if you want to adapt the chart of accounts to your business, you can easily customize these tables.

Customize Accounts

The Accounts table contains the items that represent what you own (assets) and what you owe (liabilities).
You can modify it as you wish:

  • Change account descriptions
    Example: in the Bank account row, enter the name of your bank (e.g. UBS Bank).
    Add new accounts
    If you have multiple bank accounts, add a new row and enter the bank name.
    The same applies to customers and suppliers: you can create a separate account for each one, with the corresponding description.
  • Change account numbers
    If the template uses numbers, you can replace them with descriptive names or assign different numbering.
  • Remove unused accounts
    If you don’t need them, simply delete the corresponding row.

Customize the Categories table

The Categories table contains the reasons for your income (revenues) and expenses.
You can also freely adapt the items here:

  • Change category descriptions
    Example: instead of Sales, you can write Retail sales or Sales to resellers.
  • Add new categories
    Insert a new row and define the item you need.
  • Change category numbers
    You can replace numbers with descriptive names or assign new ones.
  • Remove unused categories
    If you don’t need them, delete the row.

Advanced customization 

As your business grows, you might need more detailed information. With Banana, you can expand the structure by adding:

Example of customization in the Accounts table

In the following example, we explain how to add the Liquidity group in the Accounts table. This group allows you to see the total liquidity, separate from other amounts.

new group

You can create a total group to sum the accounts related to liquidity (cash, postal account, bank).

  • Add a new row below the bank accounts.
  • In the Group column, enter the code 10 (new group).
  • In the Sum in column of the Cash, Postal, and Bank rows, write 10.
    This way, they will all flow into Group 10.
  • In the Sum in column of the Liquidity row (Group 10), write 1 so the total flows into Group 1 – Equity.

Result: a new "Liquidity" subtotal separate from other amounts.

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