What Each Column Does in the Financial Report Specification
Most of a financial report specification is a template for the report it produces. For example, all report formatting -- such as column widths, fonts, highlighting and underlining -- appears on the financial report specification.
The first four columns of the report specification (usually columns A through D) contain important control information.
Column A determines the purpose of a row
For example, a row can be a comment, a title line, a default line specification, a line of text on the final report, or an account detail line.
Column B restricts the set of accounts specified in column A
For example, you can restrict the account range to income accounts with a normal credit balance.
Column C removes zero-balance lines from a report
or overrides a default condition to remove zero lines
You can also suppress lines that meet other criteria (such as less than 5,000).
Column D consolidates ranges of accounts or lists them individually
Allows you to consolidate by account number segment, and to consolidate transaction details or list them individually.
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