Reporting Balance Fields

Reporting balances are one of two types of balance record used in FinancialForce Accounting. See Types of Balance Record for more information.

Here is a description of the custom fields on the Reporting Balance object.

Field		Description
Account		Lookup to the related accountIn this context, accounts are organizations or people that you conduct business with, such as customers or vendors. Account is a standard Salesforce object. FinancialForce accounts can be any Account Record Type..
Accounting Book		Lookup to the accounting book associated with this reporting balance. This field is only available if you have enabled the Multi-Book Accounting feature using Feature Console.
Balance Update Timestamp		Last modified date on the related budget and balance record.
Bank Account		Lookup to the related bank account.
Budget and Balance		Lookup to the related budget and balance instance.
Cash Flow Exception Hash Code		For internal use only.
Company		Company that owns this record.
Dimension 1-4		Lookups to the related analysis dimensionsCustom objects that allow you to analyze the activity in your business in additional ways, such as by cost center, project, employee, or any other business entity important to you..
Dual Value		Value in dual currencyThe currency in which your corporate headquarters reports financial statements. This defaults to, and is normally the same as, the corporate currency..
General Ledger Account		Lookup to the related general ledger accountThe general ledger will normally include general ledger accounts (GLAs) for items such as income, expenses, assets, liabilities, and reserves..
Home Value		Value in home currencyThe main working currency of the current company..
Intersect Definition	R	Lookup to the intersect definition used to create this reporting balance.
Local GLA		Lookup to the local GLA you want to use to store balances, if your org is set up to allow financial reporting to different statutory bodies. Only active local GLAs are available. See What is a Chart of Accounts Structure? for more information.
Number of Related Transaction Line Items		For internal use only.
Period		Lookup to the related accounting period. You must enter a valid period.
Period Number		Formula with the numeric value for the accounting period.
Product		Lookup to the related product.
Reporting Balance Hash Code	R	For internal use only. Concatenation of Period, Year, Company, GLA, Dimensions, Entity, Intersect Definition and Type fields. Must be unique. If you do something that would result in two or more reporting balance records with the same hash code, the operation will fail.
Sub-Analysis		Concatenation of the four entityCollective term for the following predefined dimensions within your chart of accounts: account, product, bank account, and tax code. dimensions.
Tax Code		Lookup to the related tax code.
Type		Type of balance record: Actual, Budget or Cash Flow Exception. Balance records of type Actual are read-only.
Year Number		Formula with the numeric value for the financial year.

Cash Flow Analysis

These are populated using the default values set on the GLAs. They are used to adjust and group data on a statement of cash flows report.

See Setting up a Statement of Cash Flows for examples of how to use these fields.

All fields in this section are Text fields.

Field
Reclassify Profits	True or false. True indicates that you want to adjust the section in which transactions using this GLA will appear.
Cash Flow Category	Heading under which a transaction using this GLA will appear on the cash flow report. Example cash flow categories are Investing Activities and Financing Activities.
Cash Flow Line Summary	Text used to group transactions using this GLA on the statement of cash flows report. This is useful when the value that you want to group by doesn't already exist in your chart of accounts.

Reporting Balances of type "Cash Flow Exception" have an additional related list that lists all related transaction line items.