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Introduction - Reports

Reports read your posted transactions and present them in the shapes an accountant, a bank or a tax authority expects.

Last reviewed

Every figure in every report is read from transactions you have already posted. Nothing in this module writes anything back, which is what makes a report safe to run at any moment, on any period, including one you have locked.

Highlights of Reports

  • Sixty-nine reports in thirteen categories, grouped as cards you can search, filter and star.
  • Fifty-five of them are built today. The other fourteen are catalogued and greyed out, and that includes the headline financial statements.
  • The toolbar changes with the report. Some carry Entities, some carry Group, a few carry neither.
  • Comparison periods, so a second period sits beside the first in one table.
  • Fifty-six selectable columns on a report like Sales by Customer, ticked on and off in a checklist.
  • Three export formats plus print, each honouring exactly the filters and columns on screen.

Finding a report

The Reports List shows every report as a card, grouped by category, with a search box and a row of category pills carrying their counts.

The Reports List headed 69 reports across 13 categories, with a search box and a row of category pills reading All, Favourites, Business Overview 6, Sales 8, Accountant 6, Budgets 1, Receivables 7, Payments Received 4, Payables 10, Purchases 8 and Inventory 10. Cards are grouped under headings: the whole Business Overview group, including Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss, is greyed out, while Sales cards such as Profit by Item, Sales by Customer and Sales by Item are in full colour with a star in the corner.
Full-colour cards open. Greyed cards are catalogued but not built, and the whole Business Overview group is currently grey.

What you can run today

Fifty-five reports work. These are the ones that answer the questions people usually arrive with.

What did we sell, and to whomSales by Customer, Sales by Item
Invoice counts and values per customer or per item, over any period you choose.
Are we making money on itProfit by Item
Revenue against cost per item. The nearest thing available to a margin report.
Who owes usReceivable Summary, Customer Balance Summary
Outstanding balances per customer. Aged Receivables itself is not built, so these are the substitutes.
What do we owePayable Summary, Vendor Balance Summary
The purchase-side equivalents, and the closest thing to a payables ageing today.
What hit the ledgerGeneral Ledger, Journal Report, Account Transactions
The accountant's view. These are built and they are where a Trial Balance question has to be answered from instead.

The categories

CategoryCataloguedBuilt
Business Overview6None. Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement and three others are all pending.
Sales8Seven. Everything except the EC Sales list.
Receivables7Six. Aged Receivables is pending.
Payments Received4All four.
Payables10Nine. Aged Payables is pending.
Purchases8All eight.
Inventory10Seven. Inventory Valuation, Product Sales Report and Inventory Aging are pending.
Inventory Valuation3Two. ABC classification is pending.
Warehouse3All three.
Accountant6Five. Trial Balance is pending.
Budgets1Budget vs Actuals.
Activity2Both.
Currency1Realised Gain or Loss.

Reports never change data

Nothing in this module writes anything. A report is always safe to run, at any time, on any period, including one you have locked. That is worth knowing because it means the answer to "can I just check something" is always yes.

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