1 min readBlockingEBA reporting framework 4.2Updated 10 November 2026

Total equity and total liabilities must equal total assets (EBA rule v0783_m)

A blocking check in the financial reporting return (FINREP 9), on templates F 01.01, balance sheet statement: assets and F 01.03, balance sheet statement: equity.

The rule in plain words

Total equity and total liabilities must equal total assets.

All the values are in the carrying amount column (0010).

How the Line4 Check report words itShow

Word for word as the report shows it when the rule fails.

F_01.03: Total equity and total liabilities = F_01.01: Total assets

What to do if your filing fails it

  1. 01Open the templates below and find the cells the rule reads.
  2. 02The two values must be the same. Find which of the two is right, and correct the other one.
  3. 03EBA allows a small rounding difference, worked out from the decimals each value is reported with.
  4. 04It runs only when your filing indicators mark F 01.03 and F 01.01 as reported.
  5. 05This is a blocking check. A filing that fails it is normally rejected, so fix it before you submit.

The cells it reads

Balance sheet statement: assets (F 01.01)

Row

  • 0380Total assets

Column

  • 0010Carrying amount

Balance sheet statement: equity (F 01.03)

Row

  • 0310Total equity and total liabilities

Column

  • 0010Carrying amount

A worked example

The first of its checks, with simple numbers.

Illustrative values
Total equity and total liabilities1,200
What the rule then expects

Total assets must then be 1,200.

1,200Passes
1,300Fails

A file that reports 1,200 passes. One that reports 1,300 fails, by 100.

The numbers are illustrative, reported to the unit, so the rounding tolerance does not change the result.

Show the rule as writtenShow

EBA's formula. Cells are written as {template, row, column, sheet}.

{F_01.03,r0310,c0010,} = {F_01.01,r0380,c0010,}

Every FINREP 9 rule, by template

Checks like this one, run at the point of submission, are the first step to real-time supervision.