Description
The ACCOUNTENDINGBALANCE function calculates the ending balance of one or more general ledger account(s) as of a specific period - some organizations refer to this as the PeriodEndingBalance or PeriodClosingBalance for an account.
Syntax
ACCOUNTENDINGBALANCE(Connection, Ledger, AccountClass, Account,
Subaccount, Branch, AsOf, IncludeUnposted)Parameters
The ACCOUNTENDINGBALANCE function uses the following parameters (see our article on including multiple parameter values and using Excel arrays and cell ranges as parameters):
Parameter | Required/Optional | Description |
Connection | Required | The name of the connection, as specified in the Connection Manager |
Ledger | Required | Ledger to use in the calculation. |
AccountClass | Optional, though required if Account is empty | The account class to use for the calculation. |
Account | Optional, though required if AccountClass is empty | The general ledger account(s) to use for the calculation. |
Subaccount | Optional | The general ledger subaccounts(s) to include. |
Branch | Optional | The branch(es) to include. |
AsOf | Required | The financial period, in MM-YYYY format or A cell reference to a date |
IncludeUnposted | Optional | 1 - Include posted transactions only (default) 2 - Include Unposted transactions only 3 - Include Posted and Unposted transactions* (note: Transactions with a status of "On Hold" are excluded. When Unposted transactions are included, the following two statuses are included: Balanced, Unposted). While Excel for Windows allows the use of quotation marks around this parameter, Excel for Mac and Excel Online require that it be unquoted. |
Examples
Given this data:
Example #1
=ACCOUNTENDINGBALANCE("Demo", "ACTUAL", , "10200",,, "01-2019")Description: Calculates the ending balance of posted transactions to General Ledger account #10200 (as noted in cell B6) for the 7th period of the year 2019 (as noted in cell G1).
Result: 45,042,790
Example #2
=ACCOUNTENDINGBALANCE("Demo", "ACTUAL", , "10700",,, $D$4, 3)Description: Calculates the ending balance of the combined posted and unposted (as noted by the last parameter: 3) transactions to General Ledger account #10700 (as noted in cell B8) as of January 15, 2019 (as noted in cell D4).
Result: 4,421,510
Limitations to filtering by date instead of financial period:
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Applies to
GL Module