Chart of accounts
How Numezis ships a Swiss chart of accounts and lets you customize it.
Every Numezis company starts with a default chart of accounts (CoA) aligned with the Swiss commercial law minimum structure (CO art. 957a). You can extend it, rename accounts, change number ranges, or import an existing CoA from your previous tool.
The default Swiss CoA
The shipped CoA follows the canonical structure:
| Range | Class | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1000–1999 | Assets | 1020 Bank, 1100 Accounts receivable |
| 2000–2999 | Liabilities | 2000 Accounts payable, 2200 VAT to pay |
| 2800–2899 | Equity | 2800 Share capital, 2900 Reserves |
| 3000–3999 | Revenue | 3000 Sales of goods, 3200 Services |
| 4000–4999 | Direct costs | 4000 Goods purchased |
| 5000–5999 | Personnel | 5000 Salaries |
| 6000–6999 | Operating | 6000 Rent, 6510 Office supplies |
| 7000–7999 | Financial | 7000 Interest income, 8500 Bank charges |
Each account has a name (per locale), a type (assets / liabilities / revenue / expense), and optional tags (cost-center, VAT-recoverable).
Adding accounts
Accounting → Settings → Chart of accounts → New account. Required:
- Number (must be unique, recommended within an existing range).
- Name (per active locale — EN/FR/DE/IT).
- Type and side (debit-normal or credit-normal).
You can mark an account as archived to keep history but prevent new postings. Archived accounts still show in reports for the period they were active.
Importing an existing CoA
If you're migrating from another tool, Accounting → Settings → Import
chart of accounts accepts CSV (column headers: code, name_en,
name_fr, name_de, name_it, type, parent_code). The import dry-
runs first; you review and confirm.
Mandatory tags
A few accounts are tagged for the engine, not by you:
- The transit accounts used for two-step payment posting.
- The VAT accounts mapped to the configured VAT rates.
- The AR/AP control accounts auto-posted by Sales / Purchases.
You can rename or renumber these, but you cannot un-tag them, because the engine wouldn't know where to post.