About statistical ledgers

Organisations use statistical data to better understand and analyse financial data.

With Visma Net, your organisation can add an unlimited number of statistical ledgers to store statistical information.
If your organisation has multiple branches, all branches can use the same statistical ledgers since information in ledgers are arranged by branch, or each branch can use separate statistical ledgers created for the branch. You can add a new ledger of the statistical balance type by using the Ledgers (GL201500) window.

The same chart of accounts is used for posting to statistical ledgers as to actual ledgers.
Depending on the policies established in your organisation, you can create special accounts to be used for statistical information and use only those accounts with statistical ledgers, or you can use the same monetary accounts as you use for financial data. Balances for each account are calculated by a ledger.

Statistical data is entered into ledgers through batches of journal entries.
You can create batches of statistical entries in the Journal transactions (GL301000) window.
When creating journal entries for a statistical ledger, you can specify the quantities of goods or services and the units of measure (in which the quantities are measured) along with monetary amounts. To make statistical data on reports more useful, follow the organisation policies in selecting the units of measure for specific goods or services.

A batch of journal entries to be posted to a statistical ledger may be unbalanced or it may not comply with the double-entry bookkeeping rule and may have a total credit amount that is not equal to the total debit amount even if the Validate batch control totals on entry option is selected in the General ledger preferences (GL102000) window.
For batches of journal entries containing statistical data for a statistical ledger, you can apply all the options available for batches intended for actual ledgers: You can create auto-reversing batches and schedule recurring batches by using the Recurring transactions (GL203500) window.

Also, you can use the statistical data in a statistical ledger as the basis for calculating allocation amounts when you configure allocations by using the Allocations (GL204500) (GL204500) window.