action codat_get_account {
  label: "Get account"
  description: "Gets a single account corresponding to the given ID."
  provider: codat
  method: GET
  path: "/companies/{companyId}/data/accounts/{accountId}"
  encoding: json
  output: {
    type: "object"
    description: "> **Language tip:** Accounts are also referred to as **chart of accounts**, **nominal accounts**, and **general ledger**.\n\nView the coverage for accounts in the <a className=\"external\" href=\"https://knowledge.codat.io/supported-features/accounting?view=tab-by-data-type&dataType=chartOfAccounts\" target=\"_blank\">Data coverage explorer</a>.\n\n## Overview\n\nAccounts are the categories a business uses to record accounting transactions. From the Accounts endpoints, you can retrieve a list of all accounts for a specified company. \n\nThe categories for an account include:\n  * Asset\n  * Expense\n  * Income\n  * Liability\n  * Equity.\n\n> **Accounts with no category**\n> \n> If an account is pulled from the chart of accounts and its nominal code does not lie within the category layout for the company's accounts, then the **type** is `Unknown`. The **fullyQualifiedCategory** and **fullyQualifiedName** fields return `null`.\n> \n> This approach gives a true representation of the company's accounts whilst preventing distorting financials such as a company's profit and loss and balance sheet reports."
    required: ["isBankAccount", "status", "type"]
  }
}