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| Item | Description | ||
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| Owner | This lists all the owners that have been configured using the Ownership Setup dialog (refer to Ownership in Source) | ||
| Debit Type | Determines how water is deducted from all accounts associated with this continuous accounting system; based on either order or extractions. | ||
| Start of Water Year | Day-month that the water year starts. | ||
| Usage to date | Represents how much of the water allocated has been ordered or used by water users in the water year to date. There are two options available - Usage From Function and Usage From Account Host. When losses need to be considered, an expression may be required to account for this. | ||
| Storages | Lists all the water storages in the project. Tick any storage you want to use. | ||
| Inflows | Lists all the inflow in the project. Just like the storages, tick any inflow you want to run in this project. The recession factor of each inflow can be changed using the corresponding Function Editor. | ||
| Other Resources | A list of resources that can affect the annual accounting system. Once you enter a name, you can enter a function for it. | Commitments | A list of commitments that can affect the annual accounting system. Once you enter a name, you can enter a function for it.Further explanation |
| Commitments | Further explanation |
Accounts
This tab provides a summary of all the accounts in the annual accounting system. As shown in Figure 2, you can add or delete accounts using the corresponding buttons below the Accounts table. Each of the parameters in the Accounts table is explained in Table 2.
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| Item | Description |
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| Name | Name of the account. |
| Account host | Node that the account is associated with. |
| Account type | Type of account. This is configured under the hierarchical item Account Type. |
| Unit shares | Further explanation |
| Initial balance | The initial account balance. If you are going to use the initial account function, you need to ensure that there is sufficient water in storages to cover the total initial balances as well as the required reserves and TOL balance. If the initial balances are set too high a warning message will be generated and the results may not follow the required logic. |
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| Menu option | Resulting variation |
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| Percent (with linked volume) | The Account Type column can be edited directly on the table. The Resource column is calculated automatically based on the percentage . Unclear |
| Function | The Resource in the table will calculate automatically The Resource column is calculated based on the function that was set specified at the Account or Account Type level (Table 5). |
| Monthly-varying | You need to Here, you must set the date for resource calculations. Click the number below the Account Type name, the monthly varying window will display as in Figure ??Figure . You can set the resource of each monthly manually or by import or export data using the corresponding buttons. If interpolate is chosen for calculation method, the Resource of the first column will calculated automatically based on current and next month values. More details about interpolate can be found in SRG. If Threshold is chosen, Resource of the first column will get value automatically form current month. Unclear |
| Percent (with function) | Function below the account type is editable because functions of this method cannot be set at a lower level. |
| Volumetric | the account type has a unit of (ML) and the rural column can be editable by typing number directly to the table. Then the value in Resourcecolumn is equal to that in Account Type column. Unclear |
Trigger Priority
Figure 5 shows the priority of the trigger. They are separated into two types based on Timestep Beginning and Timestep End. You can re-order the triggers to set the priority.
Further explanation required
Figure 5. Annual accounting, Priority Trigger
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| Note: The Method to apply for this account type in ARA table drop-down menu has several options available (as shown in Figure 6), each with a different set of input parameters, explained in Table 5. The option chosen here affects the view in the Allocation tab (Figure 4). |
Table 5. Input parameters for the ARA Table options. Gaps
| Method | Input parameters |
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| Function | Enter a function using the Function Editor |
| Monthly varying | Choose the appropriate Calculation Method - either Interpolate or Threshold |
| Percent (with function) | |
| Percent (with linked volume) - default | Accounced Increment checkbox and corresponding field Maximum Announced Percent checkbox and corresponding field Use Shares checkbox Shares - Corresponds to the |
| Volumetric | Set the volume of the |
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