Sage 100 General Ledger is where the company defines its accounting structure.
Sage's Financials documentation describes GL as the place for the fiscal calendar, budgets, reporting structures, and the accounts used for analysis and reporting.
Good Structure Makes Reporting Easier
A thoughtful account structure makes it easier to summarize, compare, budget, analyze, and explain activity later.
More Accounts Are Not Automatically Better
Detail is useful when it answers a real management or accounting need. Unnecessary fragmentation can make posting and reporting harder without improving understanding.
The Reporting Requirement Should Influence the Structure
We want to know how management expects to see the business: departments, categories, expense groupings, revenue lines, operational segments, or other meaningful views.
The GL structure should support that story cleanly.