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I can't deactivate a deferred expense account for some reason

edited Apr 10, 2020 5:27AM in Ask A Guru 7 comments

Our professional services team suggested that we set our Accumulated Depreciation account to a Deferred Expense account type, but we're having an issue because in our reports it groups with Other Current Assets rather than Fixed Assets. So, I created a new account Accumulated Depreciation with the account type Fixed Asset, but when I went to delete/deactivate the old account I was not able to do either. When I click into the Account detail page, the Inactive button is greyed out. When I use the Show Inactives button on the Chart of Accounts page, I get the error shown in

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