In this chapter, we covered financial reporting from planning to consideration of reporting levels, where we ensured to gather the reporting requirements in the early stages of the implementation, and considered the differences of reporting in the different managerial levels.

We covered important points that affect reporting quality by considering the reporting value chain, which consists of infrastructure, database management, business processes, business intelligence, and the frontend. We also discussed the information source blocks, which consist of the detailed transactions block, business intelligence block, and executive decisions block.

Then we learned about the reporting possibilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX such as inquiry forms and SSRS reports, autoreport capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, and Microsoft Dynamics Management Reporter.