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 ReconstructedWhen querying Balance Sheets through the API, you have the option to include the
reconstruct=trueparameter to receive reconstructed Balance Sheet.
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 |
| value sortable, filterable | decimal | Value of the report line. |