Patent ID: 8499233

Claim:
A process for transforming and displaying financial information associated with a report, the process comprising: examining, by a processor, a plurality of elements to determine a respective information state associated with each of the plurality of elements; for each of the plurality of elements, selecting, by a processor, at least one scaled form based at least in part on a respective size and state associated with the respective element; selecting, by a processor, one or more sub-elements associated with the respective elements, each of the selected sub-elements being associated with a current unit of measure of the respective elements; selecting, by a processor, an alternative unit of measure for each of the one or more sub-elements; calculating at least one scaled form for each sub-element comprising a calculated value in the alternative unit of measure; and outputting the selected scaled forms for the elements and sub-elements in a presentation, wherein the respective size and state associated with at least one element is output, and wherein the alternative unit of measure associated with at least one sub-element is also output.