The purpose of the Account template is to enable Financial Risk Management as documented in the Account Context Diagram.
The Account can in its properties be described with:
- a text description
- an account number
- a type (“Profit and loss” or “Balance Account”)
- link to a responsible Organization Unit
- description of purpose
- dates from which the account is valid from and to
- the currency of the amounts in the account
- the opening balance of the account
- the closing balance of the account
- the amount of the movements on the account
- a assessment of the account’s significance
- a rationale behind the account’s significance assessment
- furthermore, the account can be decomposed into several other accounts
The template can without graphics be linked to other objects under the “Risk – Influences” tab in their properties:
As such, the Account template is linked to objects the same way as the Financial Statement template:
