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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

Overview of this book

Resources such as the book you now hold in your hand are critical to taking the extra step in uncovering the trends locked deep within your data. Not only will this book offer insight into the many reporting tools currently available for GP, it will also offer a unique perspective on how each reporting tool can be used to meet specific challenges faced by your organization" - Errol Schoenfish, a member of the Microsoft Dynamics community for over 24 years Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 is a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a multitude of features and options. Microsoft Dynamics GP enables you to create and manage a variety of reports that help small and mid-size businesses effectively manage their financial and operational data. This book will show you how to create and manage reports, know what tools to use and when, how to use them and where to find the data based on how it's being entered into the system with Dynamics GP. This book will empower you with the tools and reports necessary to use Dynamics GP data in making key business decisions. The book addresses the many challenges and frustrations a company may face when preparing to build new reports. Then it moves on to explain how to find your data in the GP system and company databases. The book then dives deep into topics such as SmartLists, SL Builder and Excel Report Builder, Report Writer, SSRS Report Library, and Analysis Cubes Design and Management Reporter amongst others. With this knowledge in hand, you will be capable of selecting the most effective tool for the current reporting environment.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Report Writer

In the previous chapter, we explored our first four reporting tools. These tools were mainly used for mining Dynamics GP data and providing us with lists of data. After starting with the structure of each tool and describing how to use them, we gave some real life examples to hone in on how each tool could be used to complete the example.

In this chapter, we move on to the Report Writer tool. Report Writer has been the underlying basis for reporting in Dynamics GP for many years. Every module in Dynamics GP has standard reports that originate from Report Writer. Many of these are posting journals that print when transactions are posted in the system. There are also reports such as activity reports, trial balances, modules setups, and so on. Any of these standard reports can be modified with the Report Writer tool.

Some examples of situations where we might find the need to modify these standard Dynamics GP reports could be adding aging buckets to the Receivables or...