Define structures
Use structures to create financial statement categories such as Current Assets, Prepaid Expenses and Equity in your automatic documents. Supported automatic document types include Analytical Review, Leadsheet/Grouping, and Trial Balance.
Notes:
- You cannot apply structures to Analytical Review documents with the Ratio analysis format, or Leadsheet/Grouping and Trial Balance documents with the Detailed entries with totals format.
- Structures are not available for report-order documents.
- Rounding is not available for structured Trial Balance documents.
Before you can create structured automatic documents, you must first define the structure.
To define a structure:
- On the ribbon, click Engagement | Structures. The Structures worksheet displays.
- You can define up to three different structures. Select the tab of the structure you want to define.
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On a new row, select a category Type.
Type Description Section (S) Displays the total of a collection of groups and accounts in the structured report. Text (X) Displays text in the structured report. Net Income (N) Displays a net gain or loss amount in the structured report. Total (T) Displays the total for previous lines in the structured report. -
Complete the remaining columns as required based on the selected Type.
Column Description (by Type) ID - Section: Enter the ID to use in the total lines calculation.
- Text: Not applicable.
- Net Income: Enter the ID to use in the total lines calculation.
- Total: Enter the ID for subsequent total calculations.
Name - Section: Enter the name of the financial statement category.
- Text: Enter the text to display on the structured report.
- Net Income: Enter the name of the financial statement category.
- Total: Enter the name of the financial statement category.
Calculation - Section: Click ... to select the accounts and groups to display.
- Type: Not applicable.
- Net Income: Not applicable.
- Total: Click ... to specify how to calculate the total.
Formatting - Section: None, Single Underline, or Double Underline.
- Type: Not applicable.
- Net Income: None, Single Underline, or Double Underline.
- Total: None, Single Underline, or Double Underline.
The structure is defined. You can now apply the structure to your automatic documents.
To apply a structure to an automatic document:
- In the Document Manager, select the automatic document where you want to apply a structure.
- On the ribbon, click Document | Properties.
- On the General tab, click the Structures drop-down menu and select the applicable structure. Click OK.
The structure is applied to the automatic document.