Use Column Group Maintenance to define the columns that you want to display on a report. For each column, you can define the type of content, for example, opening balances, closing balances, activities, quantities, and so on.

You can use columns to compare results with those of previous periods. You can create calculations using columns, and have separate columns for entities, cost centers, and so on. This allows side-by-side comparisons on a single report.

The Sales Report example uses three columns: the opening balance, the activity in the selected period, and a closing balance.