Costing Account Balances Report
Use the Costing Account Balances report to review and reconcile account balances at the end of a financial period. You can review the outstanding balances for the accounts by specifying the account type and the starting and ending periods for which you want to generate this report.
When to Use
You should run this process when you need to review balances in the account. This report is typically generated at the end of the financial reporting period.
Privileges Required
- Run Costing Account Balances Report (CST_RUN_COSTING_ACCOUNT_BALANCES_REPORT)
Specifications
Specification | Description |
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Job Type | Ad hoc job/On-demand |
Frequency | You are encouraged to generate this report at least once per reporting period. You should avoid scheduling this process more frequently than necessary for your business purposes. Avoid scheduling the process on a frequency that might overlap. Ensure that you maintain a lag between the end of a scheduled process and the start of the next scheduled process. |
Time of Day | Any time. |
Duration | Runtime of this process will vary based on the number of transactions in the period. |
Compatibility | The process is designed to automatically detect incompatibilities and will gracefully branch around the incompatibility, log errors, and exit when necessary. However, it's highly recommended to schedule the processes in such a way as to avoid overlapping process runs. |
Parameters
Parameter | Optional or Required | Description | Parameter Value | Special Combinations Required | Notes |
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Cost Organization | Required | Provide the cost organization for which you want to view the account balances. | Cost Organization Name | N/A | N/A |
Cost Book | Required | Provide the cost book with the cost organization to review the account balances for a specific cost organization and cost book combination. | Cost Book Name | N/A | N/A |
Account Type | Required | Select the account type for which you want to review the balances | Account Type Name | N/A | N/A |
From Period | Required | Provide the starting period from which you want to review the account balances. | Period Name | N/A | N/A |
To Period | Required | Provide the ending period to which you want to review the account balances. | Period Name | N/A | N/A |
From Item | Optional | Use this to define the initial point of the item number range for filtering the account balances. | Item number | N/A | Only useful when your item numbers are defined in a sequence. |
To Item | Optional | Use this to define the end point of the item number range for filtering the account balances. | Item number | N/A | Using the From Item parameter without the To Item parameter may result in slower performance. |
From Item Category | Optional | Use this to define the initial point of the item category range for filtering the account balances. | Item category number | N/A | Only useful when your item categories are defined in a sequence. |
To Item Category | Optional | Use this to define the end point of the item category range for filtering the account balances. | Item category number | N/A | Using the From Item Category parameter without the To Item Category parameter may result in slower performance. |
You can optionally set the advanced parameters listed here.
Option | Description | Value | Notes |
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Schedule | Use this option to select the frequency of generating the report. |
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N/A |
Output | Use this option to control the layout & output file format of the report. |
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N/A |
Notification | Use this option to trigger notifications for the users. |
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N/A |
Troubleshooting Information
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You can view the status of the process in the Scheduled Processes work area.
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Error and warning messages encountered while running the process are displayed in the process log file.
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When the process is submitted, you can Resubmit, Put on Hold, Cancel Process, Release Process as provided by the Scheduled Processes work area.
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To run the process, you must have data access to the appropriate cost organization.