Trial Balance Report

General Ledger◆ Seeded · Trial balance

Provides summarized actual account balances and activity by ledger, balancing segment, and account segment value.

Related The Oracle predefined trial balance; the flagship General Ledger Trial Balance Report is the rebuilt, drill-through version.

Run note · BIP run High-volume GL extracts can exceed BI Publisher's online output limit and time out. Run it as a scheduled process (ESS) with output bursted to file or email rather than online preview, and bound it by ledger and period.

Sample build of the Trial Balance Report — reconciled, and rendered tool-neutral so it runs in Power BI, ThoughtSpot, or Tableau.

Trial Balance Report

Sample build · illustrative

Filters

Period

FEB-26

Ledger

US Primary

Currency

USD

1,420

Accounts

$0 diff

In balance

Ledgers

Account	Ledger	Period Activity	Debit	Credit	Net Balance
1000-2100-000	US Primary	APR-26	$1,240,500.00	$1,240,500.00	$1,240,500.00
1000-5400-000	EU Primary	MAR-26	$842,150.75	$842,150.75	$842,150.75
1000-1410-000	US Primary	FEB-26	$96,400.00	$96,400.00	$96,400.00
2000-2100-000	UK Primary	JAN-26	$1,005,233.10	$1,005,233.10	$1,005,233.10
1000-6300-000	US Primary	DEC-25	$58,720.40	$58,720.40	$58,720.40
1000-2100-000	US Primary	APR-26	$1,240,500.00	$1,240,500.00	$1,240,500.00

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The report summarizes actual balances and activity by ledger and account segment.

flag

Total debits equal credits, but one suspense account holds a balance that should clear before close.

root cause & next step

Clear suspense to its proper account; a trial balance that ties overall can still hide a suspense balance that fails the statements.

Illustrative data. The live interactive version — drill-through, filters, export, and the AI Analyst — runs on your warehouse. See it live →

This is the report's BI Publisher data model — the SQL data set BI Publisher runs against Oracle tables to produce the output. The same SQL becomes a dbt model in your warehouse, so one definition drives both the formatted report and the analytics layer.

Data sources

How it interconnects: this data set reads the physical tables above. Those same tables surface in OTBI as subject areas and in BICC as PVOs — three lenses on one source. Open any table to trace its subject areas and View Objects.

The SQL data set is authored to this report's exact spec during the build and ships as the BI Publisher data model plus a matching dbt model — one definition, both layers.

The data-warehouse model — one fact surrounded by conformed dimensions (what you slice by) and measures (what you aggregate), expressed as dbt so it migrates with you. Grain: one row per source transaction.

●— fact → dimension join

Element	Type	Definition
GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS	dimension	dimension
GL_LEDGERS	dimension	dimension
Debit	measure	measure
Credit	measure	measure
Net Balance	measure	measure

Runs on your cloud warehouse — Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or any provider. Reconciled to the source control total — 0% variance by design. You own the code, the model, and the data.

How the data gets here: a BICC bulk extract of the source tables above, on the same pattern for every report. See the extraction pattern & data flow →

See the complete model

How this report's fact and dimensions fit the full picture, via conformed keys.

General Ledger data model →Enterprise model →

Every source object behind this report. Each linked table has its own page with full column descriptions, drawn from the Oracle BICC lineage and articulated for practitioners.

Table	Reporting columns	Subject areas
GL_BALANCES	Setup / configuration table — joined for reference, not exposed for analytics
GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS	7	61
GL_LEDGERS	10	104

Reporting columns = fields the report selects that are exposed as analytics attributes; subject areas = the OTBI subject areas the table appears in. Setup and configuration tables (master data, ledger and book setup, lookups) are referenced by the report's joins but aren't exposed as analytics columns or subject areas — that's expected, not a gap.

Customization note The out-of-the-box trial balance is a flat PDF; finance teams want drill-through to journals, multi-ledger comparison, and a Smart View / Excel pivot. Irvine rebuilds these on your data.