How do I delete an account from the chart of accounts. What has been posted here about running a report does not work? I would like very specific details.

Thanks for visiting the Intuit Community, jeanne,

I’d be glad to share information on how to delete an account in QuickBooks Online.

You can delete accounts in QuickBooks Online that are no longer in use. Need not to worry, deleting accounts doesn’t erase your transactions, so your reports won’t change. You also have an option to restore deleted accounts any time.

To delete an account, here’s what you’ll need to do:

1. Click on the gear icon at the top.
2. Under Your Company section, select Chart of Accounts (COA).
3. Look for the account that you want to delete.
4. In the Action column, choose the drop-down then click Delete.
5. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete.

Once you delete an account, it will be removed in the Chart of Accounts. The good thing is, you can filter the COA page to include inactive or deleted accounts. You can refer to the attached screenshot for guidance.

For detailed steps, here’s how:

1. Click Accounting from the left menu.
2. Click the gear icon above the Action column.
3. Put a checkmark in the Include inactive box.
4. Once done, search the deleted account in the search bar.

Here’s an article about how to delete an account and restore it for more detailed information.

As always, you can contact our QuickBooks Customer Care support if you need assistance with the steps. They'll be able to help you navigate using one of their tools.

Please feel free to come back in if you have further questions about deleting accounts in QuickBooks Online, I’m always here to answer it for you.

In case anybody gets here looking for a solution for QuickBooks for Mac ('cause there's -nothing- about this anywhere else);

Delete Account is not available from the (right-click) context menu for an account, but it is available from the Edit menu in the top menu bar.

I have the same problem - i had mistakenly created two expense accounts - they showed up in the COA. I made them "inactive", then active, tried to merge, merged, and now they appear "deleted". Fine I can filter the view in COA so I don't see them. However, now all my financial reports show the extra (deleted) account. There is no ability in Reports to filter out the (deleted) accounts.

Help.

I have almost the same question. I had to split a company. Now I have 2 companies and in each company I now have accounts that are redundant for the other company. If I only make them inactive, they still show in the reports. But since the one company is starting fresh, I don't want the data of the "old" company in the reports. So I want to really delete those accounts. Please help!