Customize Account Balances

This window lets you choose what appears in the Account Balances section of the Sage 50 Business Status Center(Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher) and Banking Navigation Center.

Which accounts should display in Account Balances?

The grid at the top of the window lists all accounts in your company's chart of accounts. Click the checkbox corresponding to each account that you want to appear. If you want all accounts of a certain type to appear, click the checkbox. For example, if you want all cash accounts to appear, click the All Cash Accounts check box.

Accounts Selected

The text below the grid will tell you how many accounts you have selected. If you select more than 250 accounts, the number will appear in red

Accounts Selected: 251

to indicate that performance may not be optimal under these conditions.

Important! To assure that loading and refreshing the screen is not unacceptably slow, limit the number of accounts selected to 250 or fewer.

Display accounts that have a balance of $0.00

If you want to display accounts that have zero balances, select this checkbox.

Balance Display Settings

Select the option that corresponds to the period or periods for which you want to see account activity:

  • Display Year to Date Balances
  • Display Current Period Activity

In either case, the account balances are calculated as of the end of the current period.

Banking/Business Status

Since there is an Account Balances section in both the Business Status Center and Banking Navigation Center, this checkbox lets you carry over the changes you've made. (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher) So, for example, if you customized Account Balances in the Banking Navigation Center, checking the box would apply those changes to Business Status as well.