Implementing Cloud Financials: From Empty Pod to Go-Live · Module 12 · Financial Reporting
Building a balance sheet
Lesson 118 of 153 · 18 min
Create a report, insert a grid, and set the rows from the account hierarchy you built earlier. Set the columns to the accounting period. Configure the point of view: ledger, period, currency type, amount type. Add the four asset subtotals the controller asked for, format it — headers, number formats, suppression of zero rows — run it, and verify the total agrees to the trial balance. Then save it into the folder structure you designed. The point of view is where reports go wrong. Set it deliberately and say each choice out loud as you make it; three of the failures in this module are a point of view somebody set without thinking. Verify against the trial balance every time. A balance sheet that does not tie is not a formatting problem, and treating it as one is how a wrong number reaches a board pack. If the hierarchy was…
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