diff --git a/hledger-api/static/accounts/sidebar.html b/hledger-api/static/accounts/sidebar.html
index c03daf143..1570b00de 100644
--- a/hledger-api/static/accounts/sidebar.html
+++ b/hledger-api/static/accounts/sidebar.html
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
         <span class="commodity commodity-side-{{balance.astyle.ascommodityside}}">{{balance.acommodity}}</span>
       </div>
     </div>
-    <ul ng-if="account.children">
-      <li ng-repeat="account in account.children | filter: account_name" ng-include="'account.html'"></li>
+    <ul ng-if="account.asubs">
+      <li ng-repeat="account in account.asubs | filter: account_name" ng-include="'account.html'"></li>
     </ul>
   </script
 </div>
diff --git a/hledger-api/static/hledger-client.js b/hledger-api/static/hledger-client.js
index 9b7898614..a69ac8b5f 100644
--- a/hledger-api/static/hledger-client.js
+++ b/hledger-api/static/hledger-client.js
@@ -3,19 +3,6 @@ var hledger = angular.module('hledger', [
   'ngResource'
 ])
 hledger.api_root = '/api/v1';
-function listToTree(list, id_field, parent_field) {
-  children = function(list, parent_id) {
-    return $.grep(list,
-      function(element) {
-        return element[parent_field] === parent_id
-      });
-  }
-  $.map(list, function(element) {
-    element.children = children(list, element[id_field])
-  });
-  root = children(list, '');
-  return root;
-}
 
 hledger.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
   //$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/");
@@ -60,7 +47,7 @@ hledger.factory('Account', function($resource) {
 
 hledger.controller("AccountsController", function($scope, Account) {
   Account.query(function(data) {
-    $scope.accounts = listToTree(data, 'aname', 'aparentname')[0].children;
+    $scope.accounts = data;
   });
 });