Filing-season field guides
Short, practical write-ups of the problems that surface when a SACS file meets the technical review checks: what each failure means, why it happens, and the shape of the fix. No signup, no gate, no fluff.
- DFT-G01TRC fatal exceptions, explained
What Fatal, Warning, and Informational actually mean, and what has to happen before the export runs.
- DFT-G02When the Official Export aborts
The fix, reimport, rerun loop, and how to get through it in one pass instead of three.
- DFT-G03Invalid code combinations
How CDE's seven valid-combination matrices work and how to recode a failing pair.
- DFT-G04Unknown or retired SACS codes
Why a code that posted all year can fail validation, and how to find the right one.
- DFT-G05An ending fund balance that will not tie
The identity behind objects 9700-9790 and the shape of the correcting entry.
- DFT-G06Contributions that do not net to zero
Objects 8980-8999 must sum to zero across the file. Finding the missing side.
- DFT-G07Interfund transfers out of balance
Transfers in must equal transfers out across all funds. Where the missing side hides.
- DFT-G08Negative balances in a SACS file
Negative restricted-resource balances and negative expenditures: which matter and what to do.
- DFT-G09Reading a SACS .dat export
The Other Export format, field by field, and why it is the right input for early checking.
- DFT-G10Writing TRC explanations that hold up
What a reviewer needs from an explanation, and the habits that draw follow-up calls.
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