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It’s the New Year and as you are busy doing year end close and maybe stressing about taxes, it’s a good idea to step through this checklist to make sure any Management Reporter reports are prepared for the New Year. Complete Step Update budgets in...

Reporting Tree Definitions in Management Reporter provide you with the ability to define your reporting structure according to your organization. Defining the structure is done through the use of companies and dimensions. At times, your structure needs to be modeled more precisely or your chart of accounts...

With budgeting season fast approaching, it’s time to start looking at how you can take advantage of features in Microsoft Forecaster that you may not be using or you are underutilizing. Menus are one of these features. Microsoft Forecaster contains different types of menus for different reasons...

Are you new to Management Reporter? Do you want to quickly design some basic reports? Management Reporter has a step by step report wizard that allows you to quickly create a balance sheet, income statement, or trial balance. (Tools -> Report Wizard) As you can see from the screen shot below...

We all want to report on information from our budgets, and many customers are using Microsoft Forecaster for budgeting and forecasting. If you’re on Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL or Dynamics AX 2009, you have Forecaster Data Transfer tool that will transfer balances from Microsoft Forecaster into...

Budget Control is a feature in Dynamics AX 2012 that creates budget reservations and calculates your budget funds available as you move through the procurement process. Management Reporter 2012 now brings all the data across as a book code so you can report on budget reservations in a financial statement...

Management Reporter 2012 is enabling financial reporting using Organization Hierarchies created in Dynamics AX 2012. As you create organization hierarchies in Dynamics AX, these hierarchies are dynamically created as Reporting Trees in Management Reporter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKHGAFa29sM&feature...

Attributes are used in Management Reporter for two different purposes, filtering data and for displaying additional information about an account or transaction. In Management Reporter 2012, for Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX 2012 customers, we have made it easier to work with attributes in row and column...

Management Reporter 2012 provides a straightforward and precise way for users to select the data they want in a report with this change to book codes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyWV1pJiyc (Please visit the site to view this video)

Quick links are dynamically created to let report consumers jump to key areas of a report in the Report Viewer, allowing them to quick scan the information important to them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RxS_YqYUs4&feature=youtu.be (Please visit the site to view this video)

Dimensions sets make the report design process easier and more streamlined by limiting the number of dimensions in the Dimensions window. Having a more manageable set of dimensions enables the user to design reports in a quicker fashion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPV4W1tvEbk&list=PLBE027591B1C070D6&index...

Report scheduling offers a flexible and secure mechanism for automating the publishing of your financial reports from within Management Reporter. Report schedules are simple to setup and require little maintenance. In your business, report scheduling can be used to eliminate the repetitive task of generating...

Drilling between the financial, account and transaction layers within a report in Management Reporter is one of customer’s favorite features. Customers love to be able to drill directly into an account and see the transactions that are making up the balance. At times though, it is nice to get to...

Integration with Microsoft Lync allows you to start a discussion about the report you’re looking at using Microsoft Lync 2010. This feature is designed to improve productivity by waiting less time to find the answers to your questions, and to be more responsive to employee questions. Using Lync...

Management Reporter 2012 is introducing architectural changes that will positively impact Dynamics AX 2012 and NAV customers. Existing Dynamics AX 2012 customers will have the option to choose either the traditional provider method currently released, or the new data mart as their data provider. This...

All companies will need to create new general ledger accounts or financial dimensions at some point. As new accounts and dimension values are added, existing reports need to be updated to report on these new values. Missing Account Analysis will allow you to proactively check for missing accounts prior...

Rolling forecast headers provide users with headers that dynamically span columns based on the period and report date. This feature is great for rolling forecasts, where some columns contain Actual data, and some columns contain budget/forecast data. Each month, as the report date is changed, the headers...

At times, a company only owns a percentage of another company. In this situation, when producing a consolidated report, it is important to only account for the percentage of ownership you own. Management Reporter uses the Rollup % in the Reporting Tree Definition, and setting this up is outlined in this...

Elimination transactions are a common part of the consolidation process .This blog post (6 th in a series) will help you create reports that include eliminations for intercompany accounts. Part 1 contains an overview of consolidating data across one or multiple Dynamics ERPs with the same chart...

When data resides in companies that aren’t using a Dynamics ERP, Management Reporter can still consolidate the data. The method is referred to in the Management Reporter Help file as “Linking reports to Excel”. This blog post (5 th in a series) focuses on how to bring in data from a...