Ledger Year Beginning Balances Versus Prior Year Ending Balances Report

This guides provides instructions on migrating a custom report in order to compare ledger year beginning balances against prior year ending balances. A sample of the report is provided below (it can be run for any hierarchy or for any company). The intention of this report is to prove that year end closing balances match next year's opening balances.  If there is a variance, you can make an additional copy of the report and have it repeat by company, rather than just running at a summary hierarchy level as shown here. The instructions are also provided.

Customer Central Package

You can use the RPT Financial Accounting customer central package to help you compare ledger year beginning balances against prior year ending balances. 

NameRPT Financial Accounting
Out of the BoxYes, you can choose to modify the reports to better fit your use case as discussed above or they can be used as is with no further modification.
TechnologyComposite and Matrix Reports
Functional AreaFinancial Accounting
WD VersionTested on 2020R2
ComplexityLow to Medium

  • Account Set: Standard
  • Account Translation Rule Set called: Standard
  • Fiscal Schedule ID: YE_DEC
  • Ledger Type: Actuals
  • Account Set ID: Standard
  • Currency Rate Type ID: Current

When you run the report, choose the first period of the new fiscal year.

Note: If comparing retained earnings, it's recommended to update the sub report to include the Balance Sheet Ledger Account field according to the Redesigned Retained Earnings Reporting functionality. Once added to the sub report, a control field on the composite can be added for the Balance Sheet Ledger Account.

Here's a report sample run at a hierarchy level.

Refer to the Configuration Catalog Guide for additional information.

  1. Migrate the RPT Financial Accounting customer central package. See Details on getting content into tenant here.
  2. The customer central package listed above ties to the name of the Configuration Catalog package where the corresponding report is located. Once loaded into your tenant, you can find the reports in the table using a Report Tag that matches the Customer Central name.  For more reports within the package, see RPT Financial Accounting.
Custom ReportData Source and Data Source FilterPrerequisites
Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances

Journal Lines for Financial Reporting

Journal Lines for Company and Reporting Time Period

Reports: Financial Accounting

Sub Report - Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances - Journal Lines Translated Summary

Journal Lines for Financial Reporting

Journal Lines for Company and Reporting Time Period

Reports: Financial Accounting

Sub Report - Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances - Journal Line Eliminations

Journal Lines for Financial Reporting

Journal Lines for Company and Reporting Time Period

Reports: Financial Accounting
Sub Report - Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances - Journal Lines Translated

Journal Lines for Financial Reporting

Journal Lines for Company and Reporting Time Period

Reports: Financial Accounting

Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances

Filename
Beginning_Balance_vs_Prior_Year_Ending_Balances.pdf
Size
167 KB
Format
application/pdf

Sub Report Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances Journal Lines Translated

Filename
Sub_Report_-_Beginning_Balance_vs_Prior_Year_Ending_Balances_-_Journal_Lines_Translated.pdf
Size
101 KB
Format
application/pdf

Sub Report Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances Journal Line Eliminations

Filename
Sub_Report_-_Beginning_Balance_vs_Prior_Year_Ending_Balances_-_Journal_Line_Eliminations.pdf
Size
101 KB
Format
application/pdf

Sub Report Beginning Balance vs Prior Year Ending Balances Journal Lines Translated Summary

Filename
Sub_Report_-_Beginning_Balance_vs_Prior_Year_Ending_Balances_-_Journal_Lines_Translated_Summary.pdf
Size
100 KB
Format
application/pdf

Program Type

Reports - Configuration Catalog

Product

Financial Management