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-G01
  TRC fatal exceptions, explained

  What Fatal, Warning, and Informational actually mean, and what has to happen before the export runs.

• DFT-G02
  When the Official Export aborts

  The fix, reimport, rerun loop, and how to get through it in one pass instead of three.

• DFT-G03
  Invalid code combinations

  How CDE's seven valid-combination matrices work and how to recode a failing pair.

• DFT-G04
  Unknown or retired SACS codes

  Why a code that posted all year can fail validation, and how to find the right one.

• DFT-G05
  An ending fund balance that will not tie

  The identity behind objects 9700-9790 and the shape of the correcting entry.

• DFT-G06
  Contributions that do not net to zero

  Objects 8980-8999 must sum to zero across the file. Finding the missing side.

• DFT-G07
  Interfund transfers out of balance

  Transfers in must equal transfers out across all funds. Where the missing side hides.

• DFT-G08
  Negative balances in a SACS file

  Negative restricted-resource balances and negative expenditures: which matter and what to do.

• DFT-G09
  Reading a SACS .dat export

  The Other Export format, field by field, and why it is the right input for early checking.

• DFT-G10
  Writing TRC explanations that hold up

  What a reviewer needs from an explanation, and the habits that draw follow-up calls.

• DFT-TRC
  Every technical review check, one page each

  All ninety-odd SACS TRCs with CDE's wording, what each means in the ledger, why it fires, and the repair. Paste the id from your TRC screen to jump to it.