Movement views
The Financial movement, Bank account movements and General ledger views — what each one shows and who is allowed to see them.
Where the reports centre summarises your money into totals and charts, the movement views show you the underlying flow — every Rial in and out, line by line. You'll come here to trace what happened: to reconcile a bank account against its statement, to see how a particular fund moved over a quarter, or to read the raw journal lines behind a figure that looks wrong. There are three of them, each answering a different question.
Who can do this. All three views live in the reports centre, which any finance role that grants read can open — the Accountant, Finance Manager, Auditor and CEO all have it. But the first two views (Financial movement and Bank account movements) reveal actual balances, so they're held to a higher bar: only roles allowed to see balances can open them — by default the Finance Manager and CEO (and the owner/admin). The General ledger view, which lists transactions rather than running balances, is open to anyone with read. If a view is missing from your rail, your role isn't on the list — that's the design, not a fault. See Viewing balances and Roles & permissions reference.
Where to find it. Finance → Reports. The three movement views sit in the left rail under a Movements heading.
The three views at a glance
| View | Answers | Shows balances? |
|---|---|---|
| Financial movement | How much came in and went out over a period, grouped by fund and by bank account | Yes — balance-restricted |
| Bank account movements | The opening balance, every line, and the closing balance for one bank account | Yes — balance-restricted |
| General ledger | The detailed journal lines behind every transaction, with debit and credit columns | No running balance — open to read |
All three sit in the same rail and share the same period controls at the top of each view — pick a preset range or set your own from-and-to dates, and the figures redraw for that window.
Financial movement
This is the bird's-eye view. For the period you choose, it tells you the total money in, the total out, and the net of the two, then breaks each down two ways: By fund and By bank account. A bar chart compares inflow against outflow per fund, so a fund that's spending faster than it's receiving shows at a glance.
The three figures at the top — In, Out and Net — are the headline totals for the
whole period. Below them, the two tables (By fund and By bank account) split those totals
across each fund and each account, every figure shown in Omani Rials to three decimals (for
example 200.000).
Use the CSV button in the top corner to download the same breakdown as a spreadsheet — the fund rows, the bank rows and the period total, all in one file. The button is greyed out when there's nothing to export for the chosen period.
Bank account movements
This is the bank book — a running ledger for one account at a time, the view you'd open to reconcile against a bank statement. Pick an account from the Bank account dropdown, set your period, and you get:
- an Opening balance — what the account held at the start of the period;
- a line for every movement in between, each showing its Date, Source (Donation, Expense, Manual, Adjustment or Reclass), an optional Reference memo, the Debit or Credit amount, and the Running balance after that line;
- a Closing balance — the opening figure plus everything that moved.
Reading top to bottom, the running balance walks from opening to closing, so you can follow the account exactly as your bank would show it.
You can download a single account's full statement — opening line, every movement, and closing line — with the CSV button, ready to sit beside the bank's own statement when you reconcile.
General ledger
This is the rawest view: the actual journal lines that every posting is built from. Unlike the other two it doesn't show a running balance — it's a transaction-level listing, which is why it's open to anyone with finance read, not just balance viewers. You'd use it to trace a single figure back to its source, or to check exactly how a transaction was posted.
Each row is one journal line, showing its Date, Source, the ledger Account (its code and name), the Fund it touched, an optional Reference memo, and the Debit or Credit amount. Every transaction posts as at least two lines — one debit and one credit of equal value — so a single donation or expense appears here as a balanced pair.
You can narrow the list with three controls:
Set the period
Use the period controls to limit the lines to a date range — the same controls as the other two views.
Filter by source
The Source dropdown keeps only one kind of entry: Donation, Expense, Manual, Adjustment or Reclass. Leave it on Any to see them all.
Filter by bank account
The Bank account dropdown limits the lines to those touching one account. Again, Any clears it.
The ledger shows lines a page at a time — use Previous and Next at the foot of the table, which also tells you which page of how many you're on.
Journal lines are a permanent record — they're never edited or deleted. A mistake is corrected by posting a reversing entry (which appears here as an Adjustment), not by changing the original. So if you spot two lines that look like a transaction and its reversal, that's the correct, intended trail — both stay on the record. See Correcting or reversing income.
Why an accountant sees the General ledger but not the other two. Financial movement and Bank account movements show real balances, which are restricted to the balance viewers your organisation has chosen (the Finance Manager and CEO by default). The General ledger lists individual transactions without a running total, so it sits at the same level as the income and expense ledgers — open to every finance reader. An organisation owner can widen or narrow who sees balances on the Privacy tab; see Viewing balances.
See also
Viewing balances
How balances are shown, who may see the figures, and the enough/not-enough view for everyone else.
The reports centre
Build and save reports, run the default presets, and chart your money.
Exporting & printing reports
Download a CSV or print a report on your letterhead.
Roles & permissions reference
Exactly what each finance role can read, see and export.