Understanding the Corporate Allocations Run

Corporate Allocation Run (CAL) creates target transactions based on the allocation details defined using Corporate Allocation Setup (CAD). You can choose a range of periods for which an allocation is to be run. You can also choose to post, or simply to report on, the results of an allocation run.

The allocation run process validates the allocation rule details. See 'Validating Corporate Allocations'.

Allocation Run produces a report which lists all of the allocations made, and indicates if any errors have been found during processing.

The transactions generated by an allocation are posted by Ledger Import either immediately in real-time, or at a later stage manually.

If the generated transactions are posted immediately, a Ledger Import report is also produced which shows the status of the imported transactions.

Consolidating Source Transactions

When you run an Allocation Run, the source transactions are consolidated where possible, for posting to the target accounts. Transactions with the same period, currency code and/or analysis codes are automatically consolidated for posting to the target accounts.

If a range of periods is selected, then the source period is ignored and any period based amounts on the source or ratio definition are combined for the target postings.