Editing Chart of accounts (section)

== See also ==
* [[General ledger]]
* [[Financial statement]]
* [http://www.bas.se/ BAS Swedish standard chart of accounts], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152501/http://www.alcides-mp.com/?p=370  Version in English]
* [[French generally accepted accounting principles]]
* [[Metadata]], or ''"data about data."'' The Chart of accounts is in itself ''Metadata''. It's a classification scheme that enables (intelligent) aggregation of individual financial transactions into coherent, and hopefully informative, financial statements.
* [[XBRL]] eXtensible Business Reporting Language, and the related, required encoding (or "tagging") of public company financial statement data in the U.S. by the [https://www.sec.gov/page/osd-homepage Securities and Exchange Commission]. In those instances The Chart of accounts must support the required encodings.
* [[Regulation S-X]], [[Regulation S-K]] and [[Proxy statement]] In the U.S. the Securities and Exchange Commission prescribes and requires numerous quarterly and annual financial statement disclosures. A large portion of the required disclosures are numeric and must be supported by the Chart of accounts.