A series of pages exist to query fund balances at different levels. Fund balance is a means of controlling an equity balance, not just for controlling funds that close to Fund Balance but also those that close to Retained Earnings. Funds that close into the Agency Due account are limited in equity control as what would be their equity is tracked in a liability account.
Fund Balance Pool (FBALSQ) tracks amounts at the Fund level. The next level is the Fund Balance Detail (FBALDQ) that tracks amounts at the Fund and Sub Fund level. When Sub Fund is not used, a value of BLNK populates the FBALDQ field for Sub Fund. All fund balance pages track amounts on an inception-to-date basis.
Two pages exist for definition of how fund balance is to be controlled: one at the detail level and the other at the summary level. Fund Balance Detail Maintenance (FBALD) and Fund Balance Summary Maintenance (FBALS) contain identical controls for which amounts, or buckets, on the FBALDQ and FBALSQ pages go into calculating Available Fund Balance though a series of checkboxes labeled for ach bucket. Both also contain controls for a Fund Balance Minimum and a Fund Balance Error Severity to be used on the respective query page. FBALD contains two important features not available on FBALS. First is the Balance Control that will determine if the summary or detail level will be the controlling level. Second is the ability to define one or more BSAs that will be combined to make up the Fund Balance amount.
Refer to the ”Fund Balance Setup” section in the AMS Advantage Financial - General Accounting User Guide for more information.