accountingbook
controlThe multi-book accounting register: one row per book, with isprimary marking the book most analytics should anchor on.
isprimary is the flag every transactionaccountingline read should filter on — without a book anchor, accounting amounts duplicate once per book (up to five). See quirks #tal-and-books.
What the badges mean
- master
- Data class: what the record holds — master data, transaction documents, control/configuration, or a documented convenience record. NetSuite has no product-family or schema axis, so this is the whole classification.
- Subsidiary-scoped
- The record carries a
subsidiarycolumn that partitions its rows, so the generated SQL anchors it. On a few records the column is a multiselect rather than a scalar foreign key — the table notes say which (see the quirks guide). - Location-scoped
- The record carries a
locationcolumn — an org segment in NetSuite before it is a warehouse — and the generated SQL anchors it the same way. - View
- A documented convenience record rather than a stored one. Land the records it stands in for instead of assuming it extracts as-is — the table notes say where the rows actually live.
Structural facts — how the record is partitioned, not a trap by itself
Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this
'T'/'F' string.Fields
10 fields · 1 key
10 fields.
| # | Field | Description | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | id | Internal ID | NUMBER | Primary-key field |
| 2 | name | Book name | VARCHAR | |
| 3 | isprimary | Primary book — the book to anchor accounting reads on | VARCHAR | |
| 4 | basebook | Base book (internal id) | NUMBER | |
| 5 | effectiveperiod | First effective period (internal id) | NUMBER | |
| 6 | isadjustmentonly | Adjustment-only book | VARCHAR | |
| 7 | isconsolidated | Consolidation enabled | VARCHAR | |
| 8 | subsidiariesstring | Subsidiaries the book covers, as text | VARCHAR | |
| 9 | unbilledreceivablegrouping | Unbilled receivable journal grouping (internal id) | NUMBER | |
| 10 | externalid | External ID | VARCHAR |
Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.
Boilerplate SQL
Starting point for reading the Connect-landed copy of accountingbook on Databricks — dates are real DATE/TIMESTAMP columns and need no conversion, and the partition anchors are already in place. This record carries no modification stamp, and the snippet says so where the watermark would otherwise go. Set your Unity Catalog location, schema, and filter values below; they’re substituted into the SQL and the copy button.
3 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>, <id>
-- ============================================================
-- Table : accountingbook — The multi-book accounting register: one row per book, with isprimary marking the book most analytics should anchor on.
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of accountingbook — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain : One row per id
-- Notes : Auto-generated skeleton for NetSuite data landed in your lakehouse from a SuiteAnalytics Connect (or SuiteQL) extract — it never addresses live NetSuite. Identifiers are lowercase as NetSuite2.com renders them. Select-type columns hold numeric internal ids: BUILTIN.DF() display resolution exists only at extraction time, so decode ids by joining the landed list records; see quirks #display-values. Check-box columns arrive as 'T'/'F' strings; see quirks #tf-booleans.
-- ============================================================
SELECT
t.id AS "Internal ID",
t.name AS "Book name",
t.isprimary AS "Primary book — the book to anchor accounting reads on", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.basebook AS "Base book (internal id)",
t.effectiveperiod AS "First effective period (internal id)",
t.isadjustmentonly AS "Adjustment-only book", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.isconsolidated AS "Consolidation enabled", -- 'T'/'F' string — compare = 'T', or CAST via CASE; see quirks #tf-booleans
t.subsidiariesstring AS "Subsidiaries the book covers, as text",
t.unbilledreceivablegrouping AS "Unbilled receivable journal grouping (internal id)",
t.externalid AS "External ID"
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.accountingbook t
WHERE
1 = 1 -- no partition column on this record; the filters below are optional
-- AND t.id = <id>
-- no lastmodifieddate on this record — there is no watermark column, so incremental extraction must full-refresh it (see quirks #deletes)
ORDER BY t.id;Verified August 2026 · Analytics Browser 2021.1 · corroborated 2025.2
Select columns hold internal ids, not display text — see decoding display values.
Relationships
Diagram of 1-hop neighbors — join details below. Document-link edges are highlighted; they chain one document to the next and are the joins newcomers most often get wrong.
Join details
ON transactionaccountingline.accountingbook = accountingbook.idON consolidatedexchangerate.accountingbook = accountingbook.idON budgets.accountingbook = accountingbook.id
More Foundation tables
- accountingperiodThe period calendar: one row per period, hierarchical through parent, with year/quarter/adjustment flags and the close and lock state that governs what can still post.
- classificationThe class segment: one row per class, hierarchical through parent. The analytics id is classification; the NetSuite UI calls it "Class".
- consolidatedexchangeratePeriod consolidation rates: one row per accounting book, posting period and from/to subsidiary pair, carrying the current, average and historical rate flavors side by side.
- currencyThe currency list: one row per currency the account transacts in, with precision, base/anchor flags and a default rate.
- currencyrateDated transaction exchange rates: one row per base-currency / transaction-currency pair per effective date, with a rate type.
- departmentThe department segment: one row per department, hierarchical through parent, used to stripe transaction lines for reporting.