Practical need of G/L Account Code in SAP B1

Hi All,
Is there any way to avoid the G/L Account Code in SAP B1?
Is there any practical need of the G/L Account Codes when the Account Name itself is sufficient and unique in an organization?
Thanx and Regards

>> Have u used any time the popular accounting application named "Tally".... one of its popular functionality is "CODE-LESS ACCOUNTING"...
>> if a user gets a account just by typing a few characters of the beginning of the account name then where's the utility of the G/L account codes?
>> and to maintain the uniqueness and indexing in database level - the the tables may have several keys hidden to the users.
If you/ user do not want to create journal entry by using G/L account code:
Option 1: open form settings of journal entry/ corresponding document and uncheck visible for the G/L acct.
Option 2: instead of using numbers(digits) for G/L acct code, use descriptive text itself as G/L acct code. This is not recommended practice. But, it is upto your implementation practive/ customer requirement. To do this, you either have to edit existing chart of accounts / create new coa.
Hope these options will help you to resolve your query.
Regards
Satish

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