The Extended Trial Balance report displays a trial balance as at the beginning of the opening date next to a trial balance as at the end of the closing date. The final column shows movements for each account during the period covered.

This report is mainly useful as an audit/reconciliation tool for accountants and bookkeepers.

Further information on what is a trial balance is available in the 'Entering Opening Balances' procedure.

A plain text data export file can be generated if required. See 'Exporting a trial balance' process

You can specify a date range for the transaction. Dates can either be entered manually or selected from the pop-up calendar by clicking on the  icon. Dates must be entered in the format DD/MM/YYYY, for example, 01/01/2000.

When entering dates manually, a date guessing routine speeds up the input by taking the user input and assuming the missing month and or year based on the current date as the user leaves the field i.e.

the date today is 30th October 2009

• User enters 15 or 15/ and tabs - field displays 15/10/2009
• User enters 15/9 or 15/9/ and tabs - field displays 15/9/2009

You can choose to generate a plain text file for export.

You can specify the value that will act as a separator between each individual field in the data export file.

Reports can be saved locally to your computer, or within the Liberty Accounts database.

If you are viewing a report in Adobe Acrobat you can save it by clicking on the file save icon within the Adobe Acrobat reader application.

If you are on the report parameters screen after generating a report you will see some extra options displayed as above. To save the report pdf file to your computer right-click on the "view report" link next to the Adobe  file icon and select the "Save target as" menu option.

If you want to save the report within the Liberty Accounts database simply give the report a meaningful name by editing the suggested report name then click the "Save" button. Reports saved within Liberty Accounts can be viewed at a later date via the menu option Reports | View Saved Reports.