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title: "Editing an Existing Account"
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<span style="color: #000000">Staff can edit an existing account in the Account section of the Chart of Accounts page in Kuali Financial Systems (KFS). </span>

1. Navigate to **Account**.
2. In the **Account Lookup** fields, enter any known information about the account you wish to edit.
3. Click **Search**.
4. Search results will appear. Click on the appropriate result.
5. Click **Edit**.
6. Similar to the copy function, the screen will have old information on the left, and new information on the right. Make the desired changes.
7. Click **Submit**.

> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">If a fiscal officer is no longer at UConn or is otherwise unable to approve an Account eDoc, </span><u><span style="color: #000000">do not use</span></u><span style="color: #000000"> the Account Edit function to change the fiscal officer. Instead, contact a Chart Manager in Accounting to make the change using an Account Global eDoc; an Account Global eDoc will not need to route to the former fiscal officer for approval.</span>

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