CIS133C CLASS 13

1. TRANSACTION or DETAIL
2. SUMMARY
3. ERROR

1. HEADERS
• First line in the report heading should be an identifier such as the program or job name.
• The next line will contain the name of the company.
• A title heading contains the name of the report and a period-ending date.
• The date header holds the system or run-time date which should be handled in the initialization paragraph of your program.
• Column headings are left justified for alphanumeric data and right justified for numeric columns.
• Page header is useful for multiple page reports!.


2. BODY

Before a detail line is to be written, check the line counter to see if the new-page paragraph needs to be performed. Control field totals (sub-totals) are included in the body of the report.


3. FOOTERS

Report footings contain the system, grand, or report totals and will be handled by the finalization paragraph.