The "Reporting Units" screen registers and changes reporting units. A reporting unit is a constant number that divides amounts in reports. Reports often contain large numbers, and small details are not important. Another reporting unit allows such amounts to be expressed, for example, in millions. Registering reporting units is a typical activity for application developers. See the warning under Application Development. The entry fields have the following meaning: - "Code": The code that refers to the reporting unit. - "Description": The description of the reporting unit. Typical descriptions consist of the multiplication factor according to the ISO system (`K` for 1.000, `M` for 1.000.000), followed by the currency unit (`EUR`, `USD`). For multilingual use, the program usually refers to a resource. The application translates this resource during execution. A resource has the format `{res:key}`. It starts with a left brace and `res:`, followed by a key, and ends with a right brace. The key must occur again in the screen [[Invantive Estate/Subjects/Advanced/Translations|Translations]]. - "Sort Order": The numeric value that sorts the reporting units when a list box in a screen shows them. - "Divider": The constant by which reports divide amounts to arrive at a report with this reporting unit. - "Presentation mask": A pattern that describes how to display the amount after division by the divider. Each character in the presentation mask describes exactly one character in the presentation. The following characters are possible in the presentation mask: - `G`: the grouping character (in Europe this is a point `.`). - `D`: the decimal character (in Europe this is a comma `,`). - `9`: the number at this position before or after the decimal character. Before the decimal character, at least one other number than 0 must be placed before this position. - `0`: the number at this position before or after the decimal character. The presentation mask `990D00` gives the following results: - `12.3` becomes `12.30`. - `0` becomes `0.00`.