New to NetSuite | Can a Non-Expense Account be tagged in an Expense Report?

When someone is new to NetSuite expense management—especially when expenses are imported from a corporate card feed like AMEX—it’s common to expect that any GL account can be selected or “tagged” on an Expense Report line. In practice, NetSuite enforces accounting controls on Expense Reports to ensure expenses are classified correctly on the Profit & Loss. This article explains a frequent question: why a client cannot tag a non-expense account (such as a cash account) on an Expense Report, even when the transaction originates from AMEX.

Scenario:

A client imports employee card transactions from AMEX into NetSuite and wants to “tag” or code those lines to a