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When loading the general accounting plan, it creates the accounts with 6 digits and I want to change them to 10 digits.

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Is correct Jose Anton I want to change the lenght of the accounts code e.g. 570000 to 5700000000.

Juan Ricardo:

I suggest you to think carefully about this. Do you really need to expand the lenght of your accounts?

Remember that is adviced not to create sub-accounts for every single partner like customers and vendors. 

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There is no limit to the length of an Account Code in versions 12, 13 and 14 of Odoo.

Simply use your own numbering conventions:


I do agree with Josep Anton Belchi Riera - be careful about adding dimensions to your Chart - locations, cost centers, projects, customers, etc - this information is best managed via Analytic Accounting.

https://www.odoo.com/documentation/14.0/applications/finance/accounting/others/analytic/usage.html

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Well said! The times where you set up different accounts for different partners, taxes or whatever are gone since 50 years, when the first ERP systems came to the market :-)

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Go to Settings --> Technical --> Sequences & Identifiers --> Sequences : You can change the "Sequence size" or any other param of any sequence.

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZIjW9XZshOp4Bed05ubuUgbI1K5E8GdPku7

You should also change your question to something like: How can I change the "sequence size" of .......

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In my opinion, he is not asking for this.

He wants to change the lenght of the accounts code e.g. 570000 to 5700000000.

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