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US 2016/0078555 A1Published application
Reading, organizing and manipulating accounting data
OwnerJacques Naultinventor
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Abstract
An accounting reconciliation system, with a register containing transaction data of a control account, wherein a theoretical account balance is displayed to a user on a display screen of a computer with a dynamic total of a respective balance of the control account and a set of reviewed transactions of the control account, wherein the reviewed transactions are manually checked, and wherein the user compares the theoretical account balance to an external transactions report account balance.
Claims9
A system for generating a customized financial report, comprising:
- in an electronic device, a read module for reading accounting data and identifying a plurality of accounting data elements within the accounting data;
- a data organization module, communicatively coupled to the read module, for generating data structures for the identified accounting data elements;
- a storage device, communicatively coupled to the data organization module, for storing the identified accounting data elements;
- a report generator, communicatively coupled to the storage device, for transforming the stored accounting data elements to generate at least one financial report;
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- an output device, communicatively coupled to the report generator, for outputting the at least one financial report;
- wherein the generated data structures comprise a trial balance data structure comprising:
- a plurality of trial balance data structure elements representing accounts of the accounting data, wherein the trial balance data structure elements are linked by a doubly-linked list of trial balance data structure element pointers;
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- at least one sub-list of trial balance data structure element pointers, for grouping the accounts of the accounting data into financial statement items.
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