Chart of Accounts overhaul experience

Dear Colleague - We, at the University of Utah, are contemplating a project that would achieve the Chart of Accounts overhaul while at the same time eliminate many of the customizations and financial shadow systems that were developed over a long period of time. We realize that challenges that we face might be unique to our institution, but we believe that we could benefit from experiences of other organization that have gone through similar changes.   In particular we’d be interested in talking to those of you who might have done the COA redesign and/or major PeopleSoft change that included elimination