Select Balance Information
Explanation
Use this activity to select balance information from the general ledger.
Prerequisites
Before selecting the balance information, the authority rules for making queries must
be specified in General Ledger/Authority.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, the selected balance information will be
displayed. You can use the Zoom-in feature to redefine how the balances should
be displayed by selecting the lines in the
GL Balance Analysis
window.
GL Balance Analysis
Related Window Descriptions
GL Balance Analysis/Balance
Procedure
To view the GL balances of session company:
- Open
GL Balance Analysis window.
- Query for the balances that you want. If you want to view balances
connected to a attribute then select the Attribute from the List of Values
before querying for balances. Note: If you want to view all the
balances irrespective of the selected attribute, you have to select Show
All Balances check box.
- In the
Zoom-in dialog box, define
how the balances should be displayed by selecting the relevant check boxes.
- Click OK.
- If you want to redefine how the balances should be
displayed,
- Select the lines that are displayed in the
GL Balance Analysis window, click
Zoom-in, and select or clear the relevant check boxes or else repeat steps 2
- 4.
To view the GL balances of multiple companies:
- Open
GL Balance Analysis window.
- Select the Multi Company Check box in order to view the balances
of the multiple companies.
- In the Search dialog box, use Company or Company
Group fields to select the companies. Alternatively, Accounting
currency and Parallel Currency fields can also be used to select
the multiple companies.
- Select the relevant check boxes in the Zoom-in dialog box
to define the level of detail with which the GL balances of the multiple
companies should be displayed.
Note: The
additional zoom-in parameters are available for analyzing the multiple company
balances. They are Company, Accounting Currency and Parallel
Currency.
- Click OK.
- If you want to redefine how the balances should be displayed, select a
row in the GL Balance Analysis window and click Zoom-In. If
not, repeat steps 2-5.
To view the planning balances:
- Open GL Balance Analysis window.
- Select the required GL balance set for GL Balance Set
field. Use List of Values to select the relavent GL balance sets.
Note: You can
use either attributes or Multi-Company option with GL balance
sets to query planning balances.
- Repeat steps 3-6 in GL balances of multiple companies procedure above.