Time Settings

The fields of the Time Settings dialog differ according to whether you access it from a comparison statement or a trend statement, or from a Finance KPI report.

See Finance KPI.

The fields of the dialog are the same when accessed from a Finance KPI report as from a trend statement. There are comparison and trend statements for Profit and Loss, Balances, and Cashflow.

In the Time Settings dialog you can take these actions:

Select the level at which the figures are compared: Month, Quarter, or Year
Specify whether to compare discrete periods, or Period to Date figures
With restrictions, select different periods to compare (Comparison statements).
Specify the number of periods to compare (Trend statements)
With restrictions, select the version (Actuals or Budgets), to compare.

These are the restrictions are

In Comparison statements, if you compare Actuals with Budgets, you can only compare figures for the same month, quarter or year. You cannot, for example, compare the actual figures for May with the budget figures for June.
In Comparison statements, if you compare Budgets to Budgets or Actuals to Actuals, you can compare only the current period with the previous period, or the current period with the same period in the previous year.
In Trend statements, you can select either Actuals or Budgets. But you cannot compare Actuals with Budgets.

To change the time settings:

Click Edit time settings in the report heading.
From the Level list, Select Month, Quarter, or Year as the comparison level.
From the Time Hierarchy list, select All Years, or All Years YTD.
Select the Base Period.

Either:

Option	Description
Select the period to compare with the Base Period	Comparison statements
Select the number of periods to compare	Trend statements

Either:

Option	Description
Select the versions to compare	Comparison statements
Select the version on which to report	Trend statements