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title: "Parent Accounts and Child Accounts"
slug: "parent-accounts-child-accounts"
description: "Assign a Parent Account to GL accounts for hierarchical subtotaling on reports. R365 supports up to four levels of parent/child nesting."
updated: 2025-08-28T19:16:00Z
published: 2025-08-28T19:16:00Z
canonical: "docs.restaurant365.com/parent-accounts-child-accounts"
---

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# Parent Accounts and Child Accounts

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GL Accounts can have a specified Parent Account, which would effectively make them a Child Account. Parent Accounts allow Users to group accounts under one main summary account for subtotal and visual grouping on Financial Reports. To assign a Parent Account to a GL Account, select the Account Name of the desired Parent Account on the [GL Account record](/doc/docs/gl-account-record).

A Parent Account can have multiple Child Accounts. Restaurant365 will support up to four levels of Parent/Child Accounts. For example:

1. Labor
2. --> Hourly Labor
3. --> --> BOH
4. --> --> --> Kitchen

Child Accounts will be indented from their Parent Accounts on Financial Reports, and then totaled under all of the Child (sub) Accounts, as shown in this example:

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