Validating changes to account reclass rules

The Validation - Reclass Processing by Account report shows the defined Acct and Acct – Revenue reclass rules. You can use this report prior to processing allocations and after the reconciliation of the loaded financial data. You can also use it to review and test individual Acct Reclass steps.

The system spreads allocated dollars across many accounts, with each new reclass account inheriting the traits of the basis accounts. This allows a single account to be spread to several cost accounts. As the system processes, it creates reclass and reclass offset specific accounts, and concatenates the account number assigned to the Account Class in the System Account Ranges table into the account, making it unique.

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The "Reclass From" section populates departments based on the reclass definition department filter. The dollars to reclass populate in the Amount to reclass and the Offset Amounts sections. The Reclassed Amounts are spread across the basis, which populates in the lower section of the report.

As the system processes each rule, the distribution amounts save to the departments that have a basis defined in the step processed. The system also writes an offset to the source department to offset the original value being distributed.

To validate changes to account reclass rules:

1. In the Cost Accounting Admin task pane, in the Adjustments and Reclasses section, click Reclass Reconciliation Reports, and double-click Validation - Reclass Processing by Account.

   

2. In the Refresh Variables dialog, select the variables to include in the report, and click OK.