Starting a run

A run belongs to one client and one period. Start it from the client's Scrutiny tab, or from New, then Scrutiny run, which asks for the client first.

Clients→pick one→Scrutiny→New run

Pick the financial year and the run is created covering the whole of it. Asking again for a period that already has a run opens that run rather than making a second one.

Why the period is stored, not assumed

A run records its own start and end dates rather than deriving them from the year. That is what lets you narrow a run to a quarter or a month inside the year, which is the practical answer when Tally truncates a busy month.

Findings are always filtered to the run's dates, on every read, so a run over a quarter reads only that quarter even when the vouchers behind it cover a whole year.

One run, one population, one set of parameters

Everything a run reports is judged under the parameters that run holds. Changing a threshold changes the findings, so a past run keeps the parameters it was judged under and a new judgement means running again.