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Internal accounts - Why having internal accounts defined by default?

Internal accounts are used by several automatic functions of the software.

If we had not dedicated internal accounts, we would be obliged to ask you to choose the account every time an automatic function is executed.

It would become rapidly annoying and frustrating.

Certain internal accounts as the Automatic Cash Management can't be used by users to preserve the integrity of the system. This internal account is used to accumulate the payments collected before you go to the bank to deposit them.

If we were not doing that, there would be as many 'deposits' as the number of collection sessions you have done before processing the deposit.  It would not correspond to the reality because you could have made only one or two real deposits at the bank. This would complicate the banking reconciliation uselessly.

It is the same principle for the internal account "Transitory Account for Direct Payments" where we store the electronic payments sent to the bank until the bank confirms their payment.

When confirming the direct payments, you have an option to unselect the ones having not been accepted by the bank before the real accounting transaction is done.  Doing this, the deposit made at the bank is the same as the one in your own books (with the same purpose : to keep the banking reconciliation easy to do).