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:

  1. Click Edit time settings in the report heading.
  2. From the Level list, Select Month, Quarter, or Year as the comparison level.
  3. From the Time Hierarchy list, select All Years, or All Years YTD.
  4. Select the Base Period.
  5. Either:
    Option Description
    Select the period to compare with the Base Period Comparison statements
    Select the number of periods to compare Trend statements
  6. Either:
    Option Description
    Select the versions to compare Comparison statements
    Select the version on which to report Trend statements