# Read Report Totals, Signs, Running Balances, and Age Buckets

### Read Report Totals, Signs, Running Balances, and Age Buckets

### Overview

This guide will help you interpret report values correctly before making an operational or accounting decision.

You can explain reported values and distinguish real exceptions from presentation conventions.

### Who can do this

You need access to View access to the report and its underlying business scope.

### Before you start

Know report grain, account/transaction type, date scope, unit/currency, set up decimal places, and expected normal balance.

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Open and filter the selected report.

### Read Report Totals, Signs, Running Balances, and Age Buckets

#### Step 1: Identify whether each row is a transaction, item, document, party,

Identify whether each row is a transaction, item, document, party, account, group, or period.

#### Step 2: Confirm unit and currency

#### Step 3: Determine how returns, refunds, credits, reversals, and negative quantities are

Determine how returns, refunds, credits, reversals, and negative quantities are signed.

#### Step 4: Recalculate one running balance from opening plus movements

#### Step 5: Verify subtotal and grand-total grouping

#### Step 6: For ageing, inspect due-date basis and bucket boundaries

### Check your work

Representative row, subtotal, running balance, and ageing bucket reproduce from source data.

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- Do not assume parentheses, credit, or negative signs mean the same thing across reports.
- Investigate rounding at line, document, and grouped levels.

### Related guides

- [Drill from a Report into a Source Transaction](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/483)
- [Reconcile Two Muhasib Reports Safely](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/485)
- [Set Report Date, Company, Location, Terminal, and Entity Filters](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/481)

### What to do next

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