Compression Level

When compressing a journal, posting a single journal, or using the Mass Journal Posting activity, you can select one of these compression levels:

  • Account
  • Reporting Unit

If you select Account and two transactions with different unit codes exist for an account, the unit codes for the compressed transaction will be blank. Also, if you select Account and the transactions are compressed, you will receive a message that the Rebalance Ledger Period Totals or Multi-FSB Rebalance Ledger Period Totals utility should be run. You should run this utility, because the unit codes are blanked out and the system changes which buckets the transactions belong to.

See Creating and Rebalancing Ledger Period Totals.

Note:  Sort Method 1 (from Rebalance Ledger Period Totals) will not need to be rebalanced, because it does not reference unit codes. Sort Method 2 and any user-defined sort methods which reference unit codes will need to be rebalanced.

On the Compress General Ledger Transactions or Compress Multi-FSB Ledger Transactions form, if you elect to compress by Account, a warning message tells you that the detail by reporting unit will be lost.