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accountingbook

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The multi-book accounting register: one row per book, with isprimary marking the book most analytics should anchor on.

Module: FoundationNo partition column
Notes

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.

Structural facts — how the record is partitioned, not a trap by itself

Subsidiary-scoped
The record carries a subsidiary column 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 location column — an org segment in NetSuite before it is a warehouse — and the generated SQL anchors it the same way.

Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this

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.
In field listings, the Key chip marks a primary-key field, and the T/F chip marks a check-box column Connect returns as a 'T'/'F' string.

Fields

10 fields · 1 key

10 fields.

Table fields: position, field name, description, data type, and flags. 10 fields.
#FieldDescriptionTypeFlags
1idInternal IDNUMBER
Primary-key field
2nameBook nameVARCHAR
3isprimaryPrimary book — the book to anchor accounting reads onVARCHAR
4basebookBase book (internal id)NUMBER
5effectiveperiodFirst effective period (internal id)NUMBER
6isadjustmentonlyAdjustment-only bookVARCHAR
7isconsolidatedConsolidation enabledVARCHAR
8subsidiariesstringSubsidiaries the book covers, as textVARCHAR
9unbilledreceivablegroupingUnbilled receivable journal grouping (internal id)NUMBER
10externalidExternal IDVARCHAR

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.

Query parameters

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

  • transactionaccountinglineaccountingbookforeign key · N:1
    ON transactionaccountingline.accountingbook = accountingbook.id
  • consolidatedexchangerateaccountingbookforeign key · N:1
    ON consolidatedexchangerate.accountingbook = accountingbook.id
  • budgetsaccountingbookforeign key · N:1
    ON budgets.accountingbook = accountingbook.id

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