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Chart of Accounts (COA)

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Chart of Accounts are permission based

To update, your account must have one of the following roles enabled:

  • Role: Company Admin, Accountant

  • Custom role with: Accounting settings - Full access

Overview

A Chart of Accounts (COA) is the structured list of account codes and descriptions that organizes all financial activity on a production. In Wrapbook, every PAS-enabled project has its own COA that maps how transactions — payroll, AP invoices, journal entries, and more — are coded and reported.

Project-level vs. company-level COA

You can manage COAs at two levels:

  • Project-level COA: Built and managed within a specific project. Every PAS project has one.

  • Company-level COA template: A standardized chart built once at the company level and applied to any new project. Projects created from a template start with the company chart as their foundation.

Note: When a company COA template is created or revised, all existing projects using that template are updated automatically.

Company COA templates

What it does: Lets you build a library of COA templates once and reuse them across every new project — no rebuilding from scratch for each production. You can maintain a separate template for each studio or partner relationship (for example, a Netflix template, a Warner Bros. template, and your own house standard), and apply the right one instantly when setting up a new project.

How to access your company COA templates:

  1. In the left-side navigation, click the dropdown and select All projects

  2. Click Company settings

  3. Click Production accounting chart templates

How to add a company COA

You can add a company-level COA in two ways:

  1. Import a COA file — see [Import a COA from a file] section below

  2. Create manually — use the template editor to add, organize, and label your accounts, including header, detail, and sub-account structures using the nested-grid editing experience

Import a COA from a file

If your company already has a COA in another format, you can import it directly into Wrapbook instead of building it manually.

Supported file formats: CSV, tab-delimited (.txt), Excel (.xlsx), XML, PDF

Note: Files exported from Movie Magic Budgeting and other industry-standard tools are typically in one of these formats and are supported.

How to import a COA:

  1. From the Production accounting chart templates page, click the Add new chart button

  2. In the Create new chart template dialog, enter a Chart name

  3. Select Import as the creation type

  4. Click Browse files and select a file saved to your computer

  5. Click Continue

  6. Review the import preview grid — Wrapbook analyzes your file and predicts:

    • Account mask format

    • Ranges

    • Account type categorization

    • Sub-account usage and separator format

    • Parent-child account relationships

  7. Navigate to the Errors tab to review any rows that couldn't be mapped to the predicted structure. Resolve all flagged items before proceeding.

  8. Once everything looks correct, click the Activate button

Important: Import always creates a Draft COA. The template is not available for use on new projects until you activate it.

Manually create a COA

You can also build a company-level COA from scratch using the template editor.

How to manually create a COA:

  1. From the Production accounting chart templates page, click the Add new chart button

  2. Enter a Chart name and select the Manual creation type

  3. Configure your COA mask (the format defining account number length and structure) and ranges (account number ranges mapped to account types such as ATL, BTL, and Post)

  4. Add header accounts (summary/parent accounts), then add detail accounts underneath. The system auto-suggests the next account number as you tab through rows.

  5. When your chart is complete, click the Activate button

How to apply a company COA template to a project:

  1. In the left-side navigation, click the dropdown menu and select the project

  2. Click Project settings

  3. In the PROJECT SETTINGS submenu, click Accounting

  4. On the Accounting settings page, click the Manage button next to Chart of accounts

  5. Select an activated company template — the COA is applied to the project instantly

COA Mapping

For information on mapping your COA to a 3rd party's or studio's chart of accounts, see COA Mapping (PAS)