Indeed the cells in Excel are being interpreted as YYYY-MM when using the Import from Excel Direct. At least that is what the end results are. I think that any account less than 1900 would come back as blank.

The best workaround that I could come up with is to insert an alpha character into the account number in Excel prior to the import into the Financial Reporter. Assuming that every account has a dash, I selected the account number column in Excel and did a Replace All; finding '-' and replacing with '-x' or something similar. Then after the spec is imported, I highlighted the same column in the Financial Reporter and did the reverse Replace All; finding '-x' and replacing with '-'.