The Balance Sheet object
A balance sheet is a financial statement that reports a business's assets, liabilities and shareholders' equity during a specified period.
From the Balance Sheets endpoint, you can retrieve a business's cash or accrual-based balance sheet at a single point in time since inception. See Balance Sheets endpoint for more details.
Balance Sheet Reconstructed
When querying Balance Sheets through the API, you have the option to include the
reconstruct=trueparameter to receive reconstructed Balance Sheet.This functionality allows you to get the Balance Sheets of
Sage Intacct,Sage Business Cloud, andNetsuiteplatforms
All balance sheets are part of an array of reports. See Reports data type for more details on the report structure and its meta-data.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| section sortable, filterable | string | Railz normalized account classification. See account normalization for more details. |
| subSection sortable, filterable | string | Railz normalized account classification. See account normalization for more details. |
| group sortable, filterable | string | Railz normalized account classification. See account normalization for more details. |
| subGroup sortable, filterable | string | Railz normalized account classification. See account normalization for more details. |
| classification sortable, filterable | string | The classification of an account in the accounting service, e.g. Asset. |
| type sortable, filterable | string | The type of an account in the accounting service, e.g. Fixed Asset. |
| subType sortable, filterable | string | The subtype of an account in the accounting service, e.g. Fixed Asset. |
| account | string | Name of the account. |
| accountId sortable, filterable | string | Identifier for the account, unique for the business in the accounting service. |
| subAccount | string | Name of the subaccount. |
| subAccountId sortable, filterable | string | Identifier for the subaccount, unique for the business in the accounting service. |
| fullyQualifiedName | string | The fully qualified name prepends the topmost parent, followed by each subaccount separated by colons and takes the form of Parent:Account1:SubAccount1:SubAccount2. |
| depth sortable, filterable | string | "The hierarchial level of the account in the Accounts list. The highest level accounts are level 1, the lowest is n. This is an example showing account hierarchy: Assets - Level 1 Current Assets - Level 2 Bank Accounts - Level 3 National Bank Account 1 - Level 4 |
| value sortable, filterable | decimal | Value of the report line. |