It is possible to export the account information to a text file and get the Parent / Child relationships? I know you get headers and non headers but you cannot tell what is a child of what with this.If you export to PDF you get indenting which is useful to achieve what I want if I convert the PDF to an Excel sheet, but I am trying to automate this I want to put MYOB source things into Power BI / other business intelligence tools

Hi jyoung66 The export of accounts from AccountRight using the Import and Export Assistant would list the accounts within the company file. Header accounts would have an "H" listed in the Header accounts field to denote if its a header account. if that is not listed then it would be a detail account. In terms of getting a relationship export, such as how it appears on the Account List window, your best bet would be to navigate to Accounts>>Accounts List, right-click on the table and select Copy List to Clipboard. You will then be able to paste that into Excel or Word or a similar association, this will add in a series of spaces to those detial accounts to denote the indenting. Alternatively, running the Account List [Summary] report and sending it to Excel would be a potential way you could do it as well.

MYOB Chart of accounts extract with heirarchy levels

Jennifer_Kelly
Super User
4 years ago
Hi jyoung66

If you want to automate your reporting from MYOB including the account structure, can I suggest you look at some of the MYOB Addon Business Intelligence and reporting tools that already link directly to your MYOB data using the API rather than be manually exporting to excel to then have to manually upload into other tools.

As an example our Business Intelligence Add-on BI4Cloud accesses MYOB GL account data including the MYOB GL Headers then can report flexibly at the Header or Detail levels.

If you do still want to export to excel to use elswhere that is able to be done easily too. See example below I have set this up to show the First column picking up the MYOB GL Header then the second column are the individual GL accounts that make that up. You could also have the headers subtotal afer each group of accounts however I set this up with the header on the rows as that allow you more flexibility in Excel for further manipulation.

More Flexible Groupings
Many of our clients actualy find the GL Headers/hierachy that you can setup in MYOB too restrictive.
So we have additional funcitonaitiy in BI4Cloud in our Cool Stuff version that will allow users to:
Setup your Own Flexible COA - Create New Report Headings and drag and drop GL accounts independently from their GL account number and order in MYOB
Assign Custom Groupings to GL Accounts - Great to assign GL accounts to different Divisions or States etc. for reporting
All details and a 14 day Free Trial are available on our website bi4cloud.com.
- jyoung66
  Contributing User
  4 years ago
  I really dont want to be locked into a paid third party tool, I was hoping that MYOB would make it easier to extract directly and use, more and more people will want to self service with Power BI directly and free. I will explore the API directly myself and see what is available
  
  Thanks
  - Steven_M
    Former Staff
    4 years ago
    Hi jyoung66
    
    The export of accounts from AccountRight using the Import and Export Assistant would list the accounts within the company file. Header accounts would have an "H" listed in the Header accounts field to denote if its a header account. if that is not listed then it would be a detail account.
    
    In terms of getting a relationship export, such as how it appears on the Account List window, your best bet would be to navigate to Accounts>>Accounts List, right-click on the table and select Copy List to Clipboard. You will then be able to paste that into Excel or Word or a similar association, this will add in a series of spaces to those detial accounts to denote the indenting. Alternatively, running the Account List [Summary] report and sending it to Excel would be a potential way you could do it as well.

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