Accounting
Go Back

Overview of Your Chart of Accounts Page

The Chart of Accounts page provides a comprehensive view of all your financial accounts, categorized by type (e.g., assets, liabilities, income, expenses). It allows you to create, edit, archive, or restore accounts, helping you manage your company’s financial structure efficiently and accurately.

On Your Chart of Accounts Page, you can:

  1. Add a new account: Your chart of accounts has common accounts related to the business type you selected during setup. To create your own accounts, at the top right corner, click Add a New Account. Then, follow from step three in Add an account to your chart of accounts.
  2. Tab overview: Click through the tabs to see your accounts under each account type.
    - The Asset tab contains the accounts that record valuables your business owns.
    - The Liabilities tab contains credit cards and accounts where money is owed to a third party.
    - The Revenues tab contains accounts that record revenue generated for your business.
    - The Expense tab contains accounts that record expenses for your business.
    - The Equity tab contains accounts for owner contributions and drawings, and profits.
  3. View accounts: The grey headings represent account types. Within each account type are your added accounts and the accounts created by Wave.
  4. Edit accounts: To edit the account type, name, or description, or to archive the account, click the pencil icon to the far right of the account name.
  5. Add a new account: To add a new account under a specific account type, under that account type, click Add a new account. Enter any details, then click Save

For additional guidance, you can view the tutorial here.

Written by

Alexandra Kyriacou

Related articles