# Returns the account with the given identifier.

`GET /accounting/accounts/{id}`

Group: Accounting › Accounts · Operation ID: `getAccount`

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/?op=getAccount)

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | `"v1"` | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier for the account to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getAccountOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the account. |
| `accountNumber` | string | yes | The account number, unique within its chart of accounts. |
| `accountName` | string | yes | The display name of the account. |
| `accountType` | string | yes | The top-level classification of the account. Possible values: 'asset', 'liability', 'equity', 'income', 'costOfGoodsSold', 'expense', 'otherIncome', 'otherExpense'. |
| `accountSubType` | string | no | A finer classification within accountType. Possible values: 'bank', 'accountsReceivable', 'fixedAsset', 'cip', 'prepaidExpenses', 'deferredExpenses', 'otherCurrentAsset', 'otherAsset', 'unbilledReceivable', 'longTermAsset', 'accountsPayable', 'creditCard', 'deferredRevenue', 'otherCurrentLiability', 'longTermLiability', 'equity', 'income', 'costOfGoodsSold', 'expense', 'otherIncome', 'otherExpense', 'otherComprehensiveIncome'. Absent when none is assigned. |
| `accountStatus` | string | no | The lifecycle status of the account. Possible values: 'enabled' (available on transactions), 'disabled' (not available for new transactions), 'draft' (created but not yet reviewed), 'draftErrors' (a draft with validation errors to resolve before it can be enabled). |
| `description` | string | no | A free-form description of the account. Absent when none was set. |
| `chartOfAccountsId` | string | yes | The identifier of the chart of accounts this account belongs to. An account belongs to exactly one. See id on GET accounting/chart-of-accounts/:id. |
| `parentAccountId` | string | no | The identifier of the parent account this account rolls up to. Absent for a top-level account. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `groupingAccount` | boolean | yes | Whether this is a grouping (rollup) account. Balances from child accounts aggregate here, and journal entries cannot be posted to it directly. |
| `entityId` | string | no | The identifier of the legal entity this account is denominated for. Set only on bank and credit-card accounts. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `currency` | string | no | The account's currency. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. Set only on accounts linked to a cash account, alongside entityId. |
| `revaluation` | boolean | no | Whether balances on this account are revalued for exchange-rate changes. |
| `payOnBehalf` | boolean | no | Whether this account takes part in pay-on-behalf accounting. |
| `elimination` | boolean | no | Whether this account is eliminated during consolidation. |
| `exchangeRateType` | string | no | Which rate translates this account's amounts on revaluation. Possible values: 'historical', 'average', 'current'. Absent on grouping accounts. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | yes | The date and time the account record last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `externalIdentifiers` | array of object | no | External identifiers owned by other systems, at most one per fieldName. An empty array when the account has none. |
| `externalIdentifiers[].fieldName` | string | yes | The configured key of the external identifier, a camelCase slug such as 'netsuiteAccountId'. It is the fieldName of an existing account external-identifier configuration. |
| `externalIdentifiers[].value` | string | yes | The identifier as the source system holds it. |
| `externalIdentifiers[].externalUrl` | string | no | An absolute http(s) link to the object in the source system. Absent when none is stored. |

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — Missing or invalid access token
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests
- `500` — Internal server error