Background: GL Trial Balance

Use the GL Trial Balance (GTB) program to print trial balances in detail, summary, or worksheet format for an accounting period. See Road Map for work flow.

This topic has these subtopics:

Organization vs. Organization Group
Detail Trial Balance

Summary Trial Balance

Worksheet

Organization vs. Organization Group

You can print the report for a specific organization or an organization group. If you select an organization group, the report includes a section for each organization in the group.

Note
If you print a report for a consolidation, the report is for that organization only and not for the subsidiaries that consolidate to it. If you want to include the subsidiary organizations, select a consolidation group (for example, **0).

Detail Trial Balance

The trial balance includes this information if you selected D for the Print S=Summary, D=Detail, or W=Worksheet Program option:

  • Organization and description

  • Accounts and their descriptions grouped by type: Assets, liabilities, capital, revenue, and expense

  • Beginning balance

  • Debit total

  • Credit total

  • Net change during the specified period

  • Ending balance

  • Currency

  • Profit for the period

  • Profit year-to-date

File Output Differences

When the detail trial balance is output to a CSV device, organization, account type and account subtype is listed for each account. Totals by account type are not included.

Summary Trial Balance

The trial balance includes this information if you selected S for the Print S=Summary, D=Detail, or W=Worksheet Program option:

  • Organizations if you selected the Print consolidated trial balance? Program option

  • Account type: Assets, liabilities, capital, revenue, and expense

  • Beginning balance

  • Debit total

  • Credit total

  • Net change during the specified period

  • Ending balance

  • Total debits and credits

  • Profit for the period

  • Profit year-to-date

  • Grand totals for each account type

Worksheet

The worksheet includes this information if you selected W for the Print S=Summary, D=Detail, or W=Worksheet Program option:

  • Accounts and their descriptions grouped by type: Assets, liabilities, capital, revenue, and expense

  • Ending balance

  • Space to write adjustment debits and credits

  • Space to write income statement debits and credits

  • Space to write balance sheet debits and credits

Totals for each account type:

  • Beginning balance

  • Debits

  • Credits

  • Net change

  • Ending balance

  • Profit for period ending

  • Profit for year-to-date

File Ouput

When the trial balance is output to a CSV device, organization, account type and account subtype is listed for each account. Totals by account type and are not output.