# Reorder a financial statement

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User permission: Manage Custom Statements
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Customize the order in which the items in a financial statement display. You can change the order of both the:

* Top-level items, such as groups, calculations, balances, headings and spacers, identified by the purple box in the image below.
* Account groupings within the top-level groups, identified by the blue box in the image below. These groupings display when users add levels (dimensions) to statements to create nested views. In the image below, the account groupings display in alphabetical order, but you might want them to display in a different order.

<div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/8jUmsi1aBQh4Cdonz2LO" alt="" width="272"><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>

## Change the order of the top-level items <a href="#reorderafinancialstatement-changetheorderofthetop-levelitems" id="reorderafinancialstatement-changetheorderofthetop-levelitems"></a>

1. In the **Statements** menu, click the name of the financial statement you want to customize.
2. In the statement setup window > **Statement** tab, click and hold the item’s move button (a blue box displays around the row), then drag the item up or down to its new position.<br>

   <div align="left"><figure><img src="/files/DV7RHWy58whPKtQJtIz4" alt="" width="544"><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>
3. Repeat the above step to reorder the other items as required, then click **Save**.
4. If you are finished customizing the financial statement, click **Close** > **Yes** to [rebuild the database](/financial-statements/managing-statements/customize-a-financial-statement/rebuild-the-database.md).

## Change the order of account groupings <a href="#reorderafinancialstatement-changetheorderofaccountgroupings" id="reorderafinancialstatement-changetheorderofaccountgroupings"></a>

If you add groups (sub-dimensions) for the accounts in the statement, you can [apply a custom sort order](/financial-statements/managing-statements/manage-dimension-groups.md#apply-a-custom-sort-order) for the items in those groups.


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