Default Views - Active Items, Filters
The system-defaults should be set to "Active Only" on lists like Chart of Accounts, Vendors, or Customers, but really for *any* list that has an active / inactive status available. It's actually concerning from a user perspective that developers wouldn't understand the efficiency and efficacy of this.
Additionally, when a list is filtered, that filter should at least be remembered during a session, rather than always being blanked out upon movement between screens. Filters should also be able to be selected as a default - for instance, the Chart of Accounts should be able to be set to one of the segments as the default view, rather than always having to see the entirety of the list (all segments, all statuses).
On filtering, ALL filters should be drop-down boxes rather than text-string searches. If we have 5 segments defined, the segment filter should simply have those 5 items in a dropdown (if we won't ever be allowed to default our view to just one of them, as noted above).