What is a Rollup Ledger?
Under the multi-ledger concept, different ledgers contain different levels of detail and/or different dimensions. For some high-level reports, a ledger may contain too much detail or may contain dimensions that need to be summarized into other dimensions. To make the running time of certain reports and inquiries more efficient, the FI-SL System uses rollup ledgers. If a report will only be run once, it is more efficient for the Report Writer to summarize the data. However, if you must select the data for your report more than once, the report data should be summarized into a rollup ledger. A rollup ledger is the summarization of information from one or more ledgers (source ledgers) into a single ledger. The following graphic shows the data from several source ledgers being combined into one rollup ledger. When you create a report in the FI-SL System, the Report Writer must read the ledgers that contain the data for your report. If the ledgers are detailed and contain many records, syst
