diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
index dbb2c722d..457373131 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs
@@ -367,10 +367,7 @@ data Account = Account {
 -- Assets and expenses are normally positive (debit), while liabilities, equity
 -- and income are normally negative (credit).
 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_balance
-data NormalSign = 
-    NormallyPositive -- ^ normally debit - assets, expenses...
-  | NormallyNegative -- ^ normally credit - liabilities, equity, income...
-  deriving (Show, Data, Eq) 
+data NormalSign = NormallyPositive | NormallyNegative deriving (Show, Data, Eq) 
 
 -- | A Ledger has the journal it derives from, and the accounts
 -- derived from that. Accounts are accessible both list-wise and
diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CompoundBalanceCommand.hs b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CompoundBalanceCommand.hs
index 920c538dc..4c9d1e9c5 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CompoundBalanceCommand.hs
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/CompoundBalanceCommand.hs
@@ -45,6 +45,26 @@ data CompoundBalanceCommandSpec = CompoundBalanceCommandSpec {
   cbctype     :: BalanceType                    -- ^ the type of "balance" this report shows (overrides command line flags)
 }
 
+-- | A compound balance report has:
+--
+-- * an overall title
+--
+-- * the period (date span) of each column
+--
+-- * one or more named multi balance reports, with columns corresponding to the above
+--
+-- * a list of overall totals for each column, and their grand total and average
+--
+-- It is used in compound balance report commands like balancesheet, 
+-- cashflow and incomestatement.
+type CompoundBalanceReport = 
+  ( String
+  , [DateSpan]
+  , [(String, MultiBalanceReport)]
+  , ([MixedAmount], MixedAmount, MixedAmount)
+  )
+
+
 -- | Generate a cmdargs option-parsing mode from a compound balance command 
 -- specification.
 compoundBalanceCommandMode :: CompoundBalanceCommandSpec -> Mode RawOpts
@@ -212,25 +232,6 @@ compoundBalanceCommandSingleColumnReport ropts userq j subreporttitle subreportq
       | otherwise                                                       = balanceReport       ropts' q j
     subreportstr = intercalate "\n" [subreporttitle <> ":", balanceReportAsText ropts r]
 
--- | A compound balance report has:
---
--- * an overall title
---
--- * the period (date span) of each column
---
--- * one or more named multi balance reports, with columns corresponding to the above
---
--- * a list of overall totals for each column, and their grand total and average
---
--- It is used in compound balance report commands like balancesheet, 
--- cashflow and incomestatement.
-type CompoundBalanceReport = 
-  ( String
-  , [DateSpan]
-  , [(String, MultiBalanceReport)]
-  , ([MixedAmount], MixedAmount, MixedAmount)
-  )
-
 -- | Run one subreport for a compound balance command in multi-column mode.
 -- This returns a MultiBalanceReport.
 compoundBalanceSubreport :: ReportOpts -> Query -> Journal -> (Journal -> Query) -> Maybe NormalSign -> MultiBalanceReport