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The first report in the “Taking your Financial Reports to the Next Level with Management Reporter” series is called “Quarterly Revenue by Business Unit.” This report is designed to help someone like the sales manager zero in on the most critical revenue information. Assume...

Often when we talk about Management Reporter and Microsoft Dynamics ERPs we focus on the traditional financial statements, since that's one of the things Management Reporter does so well. Over the next couple of weeks, we are taking a different approach. We'll be showing you how to create eight...

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...

Management Reporter allows you to create wide variety of financial reports. We show examples of many different kinds of reports in our demos that take advantage of the dimension filtering capabilities in Management Reporter. Typically, the row definition contains the main or natural account and the reporting...

With the release of a data mart for Dynamics GP , Management Reports users that report on Analytical Accounting data will experience a more streamlined and effective report design and generation process. One Dynamics GP company for both General Ledger and Analytical Accounting data access The...

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...

As we move into budgeting season for many customers, it’s a good idea to use Management Reporter to create an actual data import file for into Microsoft Forecaster. This actual data can be great for creating forecasts and baselines in Microsoft Forecaster. For reporting on Microsoft Forecaster...

Report designers have the ability to schedule reports and/or report groups, and they also have the ability to edit building blocks. Some businesses do not want individuals changing reports that are part of a report schedule because any edits to a report may go unnoticed if the report is part of an automated...

Previously,we showed you a high level overview of Missing Account Analysis . Today, we’d like go deeper into how to use Missing Account Analysis to keep your reports up to date. This 15 minute video will: Provide an overview of Missing Account Analysis along with the different fields and...

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)

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...

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...

If you’re using Dynamics AX 2009 with Management Reporter and wish to consolidate financial information across companies, we have a few additional tips for you. This blog entry (4 th in a series) will help you bring together data from multiple Dynamics AX 2009 instances. Part 1 contains an...

Sometimes, different companies will be using different fiscal calendars, but you may still want to create consolidated financial statements for these companies. This blog (3rd in a series of 7), will show you how to create consolidated reports with varying fiscal calendars. . Part 1 contains an...

It’s common that different companies may have different charts of accounts but still wish to produce consolidated financial statements. In this situation, Management Reporter can still consolidate the data, allowing you to produce consolidated financial reports. This blog (2 nd in a series of 7...

Demo reports specific to Dynamics SL 2011 are now available to download. These reports can be used for the following: 1. Provide demonstrations with existing sample companies 2. Get ideas and samples for more difficult types of reports, such as a cash flow statement 3. Develop a baseline...

Did you know that demo reports are available for Management Reporter? These demo reports have been developed specifically for each Microsoft Dynamics ERP. This means that you can use these reports to: 1. Provide demonstrations with existing sample companies 2. Get ideas and samples for more...

Did you know you can quickly view the most recent building blocks you've been working on in Management Reporter? Also, did you know you can see all of the building blocks in a building block group at one time? Recent Building Blocks By going to the File menu, you can see recent report definitions...