release13.07/applications/accounting/data/helpdata/HELP_ACCOUNTING_EditFinAccount.xml

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    <title>The Edit Financial Account screen.</title>
    <para>This screen allows the user to create a new financial account or to edit an existing
        one.</para>
    <para>The 'Financial Account' submenu is the first of four submenus used in the creation or
        update of a Financial Account. On the creation or update of a Financial Account it is the
        default screen that is displayed.</para>
    <para>It can be used for updating the basic details of a Financial account such as:</para>
    <para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>Type of Account (eg Deposit, Investment, Gift Certificate)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Account Status (Active, Frozen, Cancel, etc)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Account Name and Code</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Currency </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Owner Party ID</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Default GL Account for Posting</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Replenishment Level </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
    </para>
    <section>
        <title>How do I create a new Financial Account?</title>
        <para>Select the 'Create New Financial Account' button from the 'Find Financial Accounts'
            screen</para>
        <orderedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>The 'Create/Update Financial Account' screen is displayed.</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Keep the default entry of 'Deposit Account' for the Fin Account Type
                    field</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Keep the default entry of 'Active' for the status field</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Enter a description (eg ABC Customer Prepaid Account) for the 'Fin Account
                    Name' field</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Leave the Fin Account Pin field blank (NOTE TO CHECK: I think this is only
                    used in creation of Gift Cards and Certificates..)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Leave the Fin Account Code field blank (NOTE TO CHECK: I think this is only
                    used in the creation of Gift Cards and Certificates...)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>The currency field will be the default currency of Company (eg USD). If this
                    account is to be in another currency (eg EUR) then select it from the drop down
                    list.</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Set the Organization Party ID field to be 'Company'</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Fill in the Owner Party Id field with the party id of the customer who has the
                    Financial Account (eg DemoCustomer or DemoCustCompany)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Fill in the 'Post to Gl Account field' to post the transactions for this
                    financial account to post to a specific GL Account</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Select the current date from the calendar to fill in the 'From date' field
                    (NOTE: It can be left blank and still appears to work)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Leave the 'Thru date' field blank (NOTE TO CHECK: I think this could be used
                    to close or stop the use of an account ..)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Leave the default of 'Is Refundable' as 'Y' (NOTE TO CHECK: I think this will
                    allow money to be refunded to this account - eg if you have a return or credit
                    for the customer)</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Leave the 'Replenish Payment ID' blank (NOTE TO CHECK: Not sure what this is -
                    maybe to automatically replenish account if it gets to a certain limit???)Leave
                    the 'Replenish Level' blank (NOTE TO CHECK: Not sure what this is but probably
                    linked to Replenish Payment ID where you set the limit - eg $100)</para>
            </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        <para>Press the 'Create' button and message appears saying that the account was successfully
            created </para>
    </section>
    <section>
        <title>How do I update an existing Financial Account?</title>
        <orderedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>Press the 'Search' button on the Financial Account main screen</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>A list of all existing Financial Accounts will be displayed</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>The 'Create/Update Financial' screen is displayed</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Update the details of the financial account </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>Press the 'Update' button</para>
            </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
    </section>
</section>