Review Financial Results

Run financial reports in SPRK as a practical review sequence: scan account balances, review statements, drill into unusual activity, and decide which source workflow should hold any correction.

When to use this

Use this guide when you want to review company results by period, prepare month-end reporting, investigate unusual balances, or check whether AR, AP, banking, and ledger activity agree.

Before you start

• You are signed in to SPRK with the correct active company selected.
• The transactions and journal entries you expect to review are already posted.
• You know the time period or date you want to evaluate.

Steps

1. Open Reports.
2. Start with the report that matches your review stage:
   • Trial Balance for a first scan of account balances.
   • Balance Sheet for assets, liabilities, and equity as of the review date.
   • Income Statement for income, expenses, and net income for the period.
   • General Ledger or Account Detail when a balance needs supporting detail.
3. Choose any additional report that matches your review goal:
   • Income Statement for period-based income and expense review.
   • Balance Sheet for balances as of a date.
   • Trial Balance for account balances as of a date.
   • Cash Flow (Indirect) for period-based cash-movement review.
   • Reconciliation for posted bank or credit card reconciliation report output.
   • General Ledger for filtered transaction detail by type, subtype, account, vendor, or text.
   • Account Detail for transaction detail on one selected account.
   • Expense by Vendor when you need vendor spending detail, including the visible 1099 filter when you are reviewing tagged vendors.
4. Set the period or date controls for the selected report. You can use the calendar controls or type dates directly when the field is editable; typed dates should follow your saved Preferences date order.
   • Supported report selectors are searchable and sorted so longer account or vendor lists are easier to narrow.
5. If you are on Income Statement, add a compare period when you want side-by-side period review.
6. If you are on Income Statement, use Group By when you want the report split by month, quarter, or year.
7. Select Run.
8. Review the summary totals and report rows shown on the page.
   • In General Ledger, use Group By when you want account-type, subtype, or nested type-and-subtype sections before expanding account detail.
   • Statement and trial-balance rows follow account code when codes are present and fall back to account name when codes are blank.
9. If something looks unusual, use drilldown where available to inspect the supporting entries instead of guessing from the summary alone.
   • Supported statement cards, subtotals, totals, and rows can drill into grouped supporting detail, not only single-account leaf rows.
   • Grouped drilldowns can represent account scopes such as Income, Expense, Net Income, Assets, Liabilities, Equity, or Net change in cash.

What happens next

You can review current report totals and detailed lines directly in SPRK for the selected company and period.

• Report totals reflect posted activity already stored in SPRK.
• Compare-period, grouping, and account-order choices change how the results are displayed.
• A reconciliation report reads the posted period for the selected account.
• The 1099 filter in Expense by Vendor narrows the review to vendors marked for 1099 reporting; it is not a tax-filing workflow.
• Plugin-backed report output appears only when the installed plugin is enabled, its report is compatible, and SPRK accepts the result.

Practice and examples

Use the practice file and screenshots to review payables aging and tax-form mapping without implying tax filing or compliance submission.

• Practice file: aging-expense-tax-mapping-review.csv

Aging and tax-form views are review tools; SPRK does not file or submit tax forms from these reports.

Related

• Month-end review checklist
• Common accountant corrections
• View available reports
• Export transactions from reports
• Use report drilldown behavior
• View and print bank reconciliation reports
• Use the Preferences tab