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Changing GL accounts on item (going forward)

edited Dec 23, 2019 10:50PM in Accounting / ERP 14 comments

As far as I know, it is still impossible to change a GL account on an item where there are transactions belonging to a closed period - i.e. no way to change the account for item transactions from a "going forward" point only. I've come across several posts on this, dating back to 2008, so I just wanted to ask [LIST=1]
[*]if this is still impossible (it seems to be to me, at least I can't) or
[*]if there are any other workarounds apart from creating a new item and inactivating the old one.
[/LIST] The other reason I'm posting this is all the posts on it before are closed topics and not allowing replies - with most asking if anyone knows the enhancement request number. I've found a couple that I think would give us what we're looking for - one is up to 171 votes:

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