Seeded Consolidation Rule Examples

The data displayed in the following examples use positive numbers to represent debit entries and negative numbers to represent credit entries. This should make the calculations in the examples easier to understand without having to reference metadata attributes, and will be valid regardless of the account type and consolidation operators in the metadata.

The negative entries shown for the Common Stock accounts would actually be loaded as positive numbers to an application for which Common Stock is an "Equity" type account. Credit balances for Common Stock, represented in the examples by negative numbers, would be loaded to an application as positive amounts because credits in an Equity type account are represented by positive numbers.