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Configure Financials reporting when an export or generated document needs a different sign convention. Reporting settings do not change stored amounts, screen colors, invoice balances, or reserves. They only determine how a figure is signed when it leaves the app. Reference Frames defines Flow and Type and includes a worked example. Decide which question each output should answer before changing the settings:
  • Flow — did money come in or go out? Inflow is positive and outflow is negative.
  • Type — did activity follow the Invoice Type’s expected direction? Expected activity is positive and reversed activity is negative.

Map the Outputs

Open Admin → Financials → Reporting. The company-wide table contains one independent setting for each surface: An untouched company uses Flow for all three. Changing one row does not change the others. Configured event export columns and smart tags are not on this page. Each prints what its expression computes, in the frame its expression chooses; see Reference Frames.

Set Company-Wide Frames

  1. For each surface, select Flow or Type.
  2. Read any warning shown below a Type selection.
  3. Continue through all three rows before saving so the set remains deliberate.
Invoice and Overview exports add figures across Invoice Types. In the Type frame, activity that follows each type’s expectation is positive even when some money flows in and some flows out. Their summed column therefore measures activity, not net cash flow.
The page holds these changes as a draft. Select Discard to return every row and override to its last saved value, or continue to type-specific overrides before selecting Save.

Add an Invoice Type Override

Use an override when one active Loss/Recovery Invoice Type needs a different frame on its reserve-update exports.
  1. Turn on Invoice type overrides.
  2. Select Add Override.
  3. Choose the Invoice type first. The list shows only active Loss/Recovery types, because only they can take an override.
  4. Choose the Export.
  5. Choose the Frame.
  6. Select Add.
Add transaction type override dialog with the Transaction type picker open, listing Indemnity and ALAE. The Export and Sign convention pickers are empty and Add is disabled.

The Transaction type list in the Add transaction type override dialog offers only the Loss/Recovery types Indemnity and ALAE.

Overrides are intentionally limited:
  • Invoices and Overview must remain uniform across types because their columns aggregate across Invoice Types.
  • Reserve Update is available only for Loss/Recovery types, so an Operating type takes no override.
  • A type/export pair that already has an override cannot be added twice.
  • Deprecated Invoice Types cannot receive new overrides.
The added row remains part of the unsaved draft. It names the Invoice Type, surface, and frame. Remove a row to make that type follow the company-wide setting again.
Reporting tab with Money direction selected for Invoice listing export, Overview report export, and Reserve history export. Transaction type overrides is on and lists one row, Indemnity, Reserve history export, Transaction type direction, with a delete control, Add Override, and enabled Discard changes and Save changes buttons.

The unsaved draft keeps every export in Money direction and adds one override: Indemnity uses Transaction type direction for the Reserve history export.

Save and Verify

Select Save and wait for the confirmation that export reference frames were saved. The Save and Discard controls become unavailable when the page matches the stored settings. Generate a fresh example from every changed surface. Use an Invoice Type whose expected direction makes the two frames visibly different—for example, an Expense type with outgoing activity:
  • confirm the screen still shows the unsigned magnitude in black;
  • confirm a Flow-framed output writes the outgoing figure as negative;
  • confirm a Type-framed output writes expected outgoing activity as positive; and
  • confirm a type-specific override differs only on its named surface.
Do not compare an old download: reporting changes affect newly generated outputs and do not rewrite files that have already left the app.

Remove Overrides or Revert a Change

  • Select the delete control beside one override to return that pair to its company-wide frame, then Save.
  • Turn off Invoice type overrides to remove all override rows. When rows exist, confirm Remove overrides, then Save.
  • Change a company-wide row back to its prior frame and Save when the new convention was not appropriate.
  • Select Discard before saving to abandon the entire current draft.
Turning the overrides switch off does not take effect until the reporting draft is saved. See the Reporting configuration page for a concise control reference.