Account hierarchical numbering

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Fiable.biz wrote:

>Colin Scott-2 wrote:
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>>a very large task, and not one likely to be justifiable.
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>Let me explain first the importance of this. Unlike the Anglosphere, many
>countries use a national chart of accounts with hierarchical numbering. The
>French style doesn't use dots, so the number of sub-accounts at any level is
>limited to ten. But "216" has to be sorted before 31, since "216" means
>2.1.6 while "31" means "3.1". Such a system is used at least in Belgium, the
>Czeck republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Spain,
>Sweden, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic
>, Congo, Gabon, Chad, the Comores, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea,
>Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Marroco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia.
>Russia uses a national chart of accounts with, it seems, simple numbers.
>Many former communist countries have a national chart of accounts with
>numbers, but I don't know exactly which kind of numbers. Mongolia, to get
>rid of the limitation to 10 subaccounts, chose an explicitly hierarchical
>numbering, with dots.
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"But "216" has to be sorted before 31, since "216" means 2.1.6 while 
"31" means "3.1"   "

    That scheme (which appears to be used in a great many countries) 
would be sorted correctly now (ordinary collating sequence for alphameric)

Michael